Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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Note from Denny Lane to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. Concerns large lamps and candles in Crystal Palace for about £15 each which lane proposes to send to Cork Exhibition. Asks O’Mahony to tell the Chairman (of Cork Gas Company) and Mr. Travers. Requests a lithographical ground plan of the Cork Exhibition building from Mr. Walker or Mr. Beamish. Mentions that the Dublin Gas Bill, is ‘…getting a great deal of opposition…’. 2pp 98 10 September 1883 Postcard from Denny Lane, Hotel Rosenbad, Burtscheid Aix la Chappelle, Aachen, Germany, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company,

Cork. He thinks ‘Mrs Lane will not stop here much longer she is anxious to get home’. He will probably return via Amsterdam.

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99 3 October 1883 Postcard from Denny Lane, Cologne, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. Acknowledges letter. Says rice can be ordered weekly from North Shore Milling Company, but they have only delivered 12 tons out of 30 bought. He is going up the Rhine to Coblenz today. 100 17 January 1884 Letter, from Denny Lane, c/o Hotel de l’Athenee, 15 Rue Scribe, Paris, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘I received your note last evening there is no English post delivered on Monday mornings’. He is obliged about O’Mahony’s notes on business ‘all of which will wait until my return’. Mentions that he has ‘never been more disappointed’ that he was at D.O’Callaghan’s appointment and that ‘it was so good and right a thing that it could never happen’. 2pp 101 14 July 1884 Letter, from Denny Lane, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. He hopes they will not get into any trouble with the Ledlie people, ‘but you could do no more in the matter’. Mainly concerns certain contracts for

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