Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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144 21 December 1894 Note to ‘Miss A.C. from ‘Shawn Fitz’. Mentions ‘eye lotion…for internal use only…’. 1 item (iii) Mary Francis Lane, Wife (1881-c.1895) (10 items)

From MF Lane to J. O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company [1880s] (6 items)

145 [1881] Letter from Mary Francis Lane, Fairy Hill, Monkstown, Co. Cork, to ‘My dear Mr. O’Mahony’(J. O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company). ‘We arrived safely yesterday in the wildest of a…Cork downpour…’. She is obliged to O’Mahony for his kindness in lending the Herald. Asks O’Mahony if he had heard lately from D.L. (Denny Lane) whose last address was Brussels. She was asked to go sight seeing in Dublin to the Botanic & Zoological Gardens, museums, theatre, shops, Kingstown and Brayside. She had a ‘long gossip with Sir C.G. Duffy (Charles Gavan Duffy) and ‘quite fell in love with him…’. She ‘besited’ Kickham, Fr. Meehan and other celebrities as well as Frank Mahony’s intended ‘a very nice girl…quite the opposite of the “Girl of the Period” ‘. 1p 146 [June] 1881 Letter from Mary Francis Lane, Fairy Hill, Monkstown, to ‘My dear Mr. O’Mahony (J. O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company). Asks O’Mahony to send Denny Lane the Herald and to mark anything he would be required to read. Mentions Lane’s journey in London. She was amused ‘at getting an absolutely illegible letter in pencil’ from Denny Lane in Birmingham ‘on the principle that a lobster cannot I understand be got in Kinsale he appeared to be without a nib in the land of pens, so I sent him one as a gentle hint’. Asks O’Mahony how he is existing without his ‘Parmesan & Macaroni’. 1p

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