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do him. This night she is to be interred privately tho’ the coffin I hear is covered with velvet’. [Frayed and torn along bottom ed ge, with some loss of text].
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15 December 1748
Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Crotty, Castlelyons, beginning ‘The Season approaches when the Melanch oly, the Splenatick and the entire part of Mankind that is any way depress’d endeavour to shake the load of their minds, either among their own familys, or their friends, & as I know you have indulged your self for a good while past in some mental solicitu des, I think you ought to give them a truce’. He tells William that his wife has discovered a ‘julep that is sovreign against Melancholy in general’, and insists he and his family come to them.
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16 March 1749
Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Crotty, Corke, reporting that he and his household, including William’s son Billy, are well, adding of his wife ‘she is pretty well yet barks a little’. He notes that Billy’s eye is clearing, and comments humorously on his children’s obser vations on it. He states that he is two days returned from Ballygallane and travels to his namesake in Carrick [John Galwey] tomorrow, admitting that he has not been following ‘your example of fasting and praying’. He adds that Joe [Coppinger] will not be joining them. He states that he has received a letter ‘by the Widdow from Cove’ and that her ‘fears are removed & she shall be included in the partnership’. He advises that William seek to get over his ‘unfortunate moments’ [depression?] by more activity ‘ which I would recommend to you before a spiritual retreat’. He states ‘I am informed there is one come with £30,000 to Dublin to lay out on good security at £4 P Cent could you not apply to some friend there [around?] such a [ford?] for you’. He continues. ‘I hear for certain the Peers Dalila is gone to the shades, it is the only symptom of his getting into the road of salvation, but until he sends notice to the E_ l of C_ was to quitt the Palace. Ile believe nothing of his Reformation. I fear he’l not long hold, for the head of the great glass fell the other day & smashed a gilded table under it, but this rather prognostigates that his brittle head will shiver a golden fortune. It is no bad guess at prophesying’. He sends his best wishes to William’s family and asks that he tell Mr Sarsfield that he has purchased an excellent flute for him. [Paper is quite fragile, with some holes].
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28 September 1749
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