Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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Engineers to hear a ‘great disciple on the important subject of distribution’.

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112 [November 1888] Note from Denny Lane to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Requests Mr John Lalor’s London address and a packet of visiting cards. He has ‘plenty of fountains to dip my scallop shell in’. 3pp 113 [November 1888] Note from Denny Lane, London, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. ‘I got your telegram last night and will go on to Newcastle tomorrow…if you have anything to say wire care of Tyne Coal Co…’. Lane says he ‘got on very well with the Gas men’, getting ‘considerable applause for some very dislocated observations’. He has ‘heard of some plot to make me the Lead Boss of the Institute’, but he does not think it would suit him. 2pp 114 12 November 1888 Letter from Denny Lane, care of Hebburn Colliery Office, Lombard Street, Newcastle on Tyne, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Mainly concerns supplies of coal from Bowes of which Lane proposes to order 9000 tons before May 1889 and 15,000 tons thereafter. 4pp 115 [1888] Letter from Denny Lane, [London], to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. Mainly concerns business matters and activities in England. He sees ‘great preparations here for electric lighting and has made the acquaintance of a Mr. Kapp, a distinguished electrical engineer. Mentions that an article of Lane’s appears as a leader in Civil and Fine Traders Review. 2pp

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