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Letter, from G.M. Russell, County Club, Downpatrick, to Captain Berkeley. Concerns meeting of County Committee at Cushendall. Gives times of trains.
4pp
81
August 1914
Letter from Nancy Letts, Glens of Antrim Hotel, Cushendall, to Captain Berkeley. Asks Berkeley to come to Cushendall to view the Volunteers there.
4pp
82
August 1914
Letter from Nancy Letts, Cushendall, to Captain Berkeley. She did not go to Belfast and the letter he posted would not have left Cushendall until Thursday. Mentions badges ‘which I designed to be worn by women’, selling well.
4pp
83
10 August 1914
Letter from J.R. White, Royal Arms, Omagh, to Captain Berkeley. Tells of mobilisation of about 5000 men. He is ‘off to Dublin to find out relations between East & I.V (Irish Volunteers) ’. Thinks it important that the Government deal with Irish Volunteers as a body and enlisted as a district regiment ‘the nucleus of a permanent defence force under the Irish Parliament at end of war’.
2pp
84
13 August 1914
Letter from Alec Wilson, Belvoir Park, Newtownbreda, Co. Down to ‘Dear M r. Niblock’. He has arranged with Count Gleichen to place the park at the disposal of His Majesty’s forces for drill. When the regulars are not on the ground it is open for either body of Volunteers to use. He will send word when the Irish Volunteers intend to parade.
1p
85
13 August 1914
Letter from Alec Wilson, Belvoir Park, Newtownbreda, Co. Down to ‘My dear Berkeley’. Encloses a letter, mentions use of ‘the car’ for Irish Volunteers purposes.
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