Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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Note from Denny Lane, Grand Hotel De L’Athénee, Rue Scribe, Paris, France, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘Just arrived…Tell Mr Harrington my address at once…’. 1p 92 24 September 1881 Letter, from Denny Lane, Grand Hotel De L’Athénee, Rue Scribe, Paris, France, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘Got your letter here…’. Lane hasn’t received any letter from Mr Kerkman, but when home, will be ready to treat liberally with him about Glynstown. He writes that if the people will support it there is a future to be made and the capital required will be very small. Mentions ‘regulators’, preferably ‘Scotch’ which ‘vary as little as the French ones’. Lane has sent a telegram by the post and ‘will join on anything you and Travers wish for’. Contains observations on an electric lighting exhibition in Paris, ‘I see no great progress except in incandescent lamps’ such as Edison’s and Fox’s, which are of a ‘more agreeable colour’ than arc lights. He thinks that these might compete with gas at 7 or 8 shillings a thousand. Siemens lamps are as good as any other, and several ones are suitable for large halls, however for street lighting or domestic purposes ‘nothing can compete with gas’. Lane notes that hundreds or thousands of men are at work on the subject, but that the ‘laws of nature are stronger than the inventions of man’. Some cafés on the Boulevards use Jablockoff lamps but are the ‘least frequented of any’. He has spent nearly all his time in the exhibition. 2pp 93 26 September 1881 Note from Denny Lane, France, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. He received O’Mahony’s note and 2 from Dr. Harrington. Mentions rent due to Mr Sarsfield, Ducloyne and encloses cheque. He is going to Paris tomorrow and is glad that ‘all is so smooth that you have nothing to tell’. 1p 94 [March] 1882

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