Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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supplies which Lane is sourcing in England such as ‘offers of 15000 tons Ravensworth at 5/3…’. Asks O’Mahony to ‘Husband your resources until he comes home. 1p 102 17 June 1885 Letter, from Denny Lane, Paris to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. Concerns Lane’s return to London, where he will be looking at the ‘inventions’. 1p 103 [1885] Note from Denny Lane to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. Lane gives permission to draw £125 from the Bank, He has surplus sulphate with him and will see what he can do with them in the City. 1p 104 15 July [1885] Memo from Denny Lane, [London] to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘I have written to Mrs Cooper and Hurley to…attend to their accounts…’. Makes arrangements concerning the paying of the cheques. Remarks that The Exhibition is ‘very good’ but that he has ‘not seen anything remarkable in Gas’, and that the Irish and the Fine Arts departments are ‘particularly good’. The remainder concerns the ‘compensation arrangement for new contract’. Lane thinks the Directors should be asked if the new contract will be proposed by Mr Maguire, or Mr. Hanrahan. There is also an outstanding question to be replied to by Mr. Gillman concerning the Corporation’s power to execute certain works in the event of delays. 2pp 105 14 November 1885 Letter, from Denny Lane, Craven Hotel, London, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘After writing to you on Monday I got across to Gateshead to see Honble Mr. Parsons Lord Rosses Brother...’,where he saw the new steam engine. He was ‘gratified to

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