Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

U405

because he is a Catholic ’ risks alienating both Catholic tenants and liberal Protestants. He offers Mr Barry his private support.

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88.

22 December 1836

Letter to Thomas S Coppinger, Midleton, from John Murphy, Bishop of Cork, thanking him for his regarding his brother in Paris. He informs Coppinger that he has not had an opportunity to converse with Most Rev Dr Murray on the subject of inspection of the National Schools. He notes ‘when you spoke with me on this business in Midleton I expressed regret that I had interested myself in behalf of a Mr Courtnay who aspired to such a situation. It would be well to have t hro’ some friend in Dublin a communication with Dr Murray on this matter’. He adds that when next in Dublin in January he shall convey to the Archbishop, who shall then be in possession of Thomas’s applications, ‘the favourable opinion I entertain of my go od friend William’. He notes that the Board will expect ‘a considerable degree of skill in mathematics, which I hope is possessed by your brother’.

89.

6 January 1837

Letter to Thomas S Coppinger, Middleton, from B Crotty, Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, Cove, in reply to his. He firstly apologises for the delay in replying to an earlier letter from ‘your excellent mother’ owing to the effects of ‘the severest cold I was ever visited with’. He refers to a letter for William in connection with his prospect ive appointment to a position ‘by the Board’.

90.

1 July 1843

Letter to James Power, Reform Club, London, containing two letters. The first, addressed to ‘Dear Jane’, is from Mary Coppinger, Bagni di Lucca, informing her ‘our dear Annette has this morning given us another nephew ’, called Thomas Stephen James. The second letter is addressed to ‘My Dear James’ and is from [J.I.] Coppinger, who observes ‘this is th e year for boys in our family’.

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