Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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Charles Gavan Duffy (1879) (3 items)

58 4 February 1879 Letter from Charles Gavan Duffy, Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia, to Denny Lane, Cork. I will try to get your protégé employed in a Brewery, to get him employed in the Public Service is wholly impossible’. Tells of a political and commercial crisis at present, ‘If there were ten bankruptcies in Cork and an insurrection fixed for Autumn, it would be about an equivalent for our troubles…’. He has ‘worn out his friends’ trying to place young Irishmen ‘who come to me…by every ship’. Asks Lane to send his carte (photo) as he is the ‘only one of the Y.I (Young Ireland) of whom I have no likeness’ and also to send letters of Davis or Dillon for a memoir of ’48 (1848). Laments that there are few of the original Young Irelanders left, except for Lane, O’Hagan, and Richard O’Gorman in America. Duffy intends to go to Europe to complete his book when the Parliament is dissolved. 4pp 59 17 July 1879 Letter, from Charles Gavan Duffy, 117 [Siran] Street, London, to Denny Lane, Cork. ‘Many thanks for the carte de visite…’. Asks Lane to return to him the correspondence, with final corrections, plus any notes Lane may have upon ‘that period’. Duffy has got John McNevin’s papers, but not Barry’s, and ‘…the book was the judgement upon you for raising him from a watery grave…’. Tells of interest in forthcoming volume. 3pp 60 17 November [1879] Letter from Charles Gavan Duffy, 19 Lower Phillimore Place, Kensington, London to Denny Lane, Cork. Requests Lane to review his second volume which is coming out in December, ‘I have wasted so much energy on it that I am beginning to hate the sight of it…’. Asks

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