Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
Pietermaritzburg. Some are annotated and detail his work and the views of the farm and surrounding landscape. A few of the drawings and letters include language that is offensive and racist. Several of the letters are difficult to read as the handwriting is doubled on the page, written across and lengthways down the page. Florence and his family later lived in South Africa again for a period in the 1870s: Florence's sons Donal Percy and Eugene were born there.
Florence Strachan MacCarthy worked for a number of years as a farmer in Pietermaritzburg, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], South Africa. He documented his time there in great detail in a vivid collection of letters and drawings. ( PR70/B/413)
Reference:
PR70/B/414
Date:
[?27] August 1870-9 September 1870
Title: Level:
Copy letters from Daniel MacCarthy to Florence MacCarthy.
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Extent: Part of:
5 letters PR70/B
Scope and Content: Daniel writes from the Imperial Hotel and 16 Grand Parade during his visit to Cork "a very fine city". He discusses visits to Blarney Castle, Kilcrea Abbey and Castle, Queenstown [Cobh], Passage [West], and his plans to visit Dunmanway, Togher, and Ballinacarriga Castle. He recounts meetings with several of the correspondents in the collection, including CG Donovan, "Mr [Edwin] Windele", "Mr [MacCarthy] of Carrignavar", "the O'Donovans", and Richard Caulfield ("my learned and most kind and obliging friend"). He writes affectionately about Florence, his wife Alice, and their children ("the little brats"), and notes that he is bringing home "fragments for family worship" which include stones from Blarney Castle and Kilcrea, and a slab of bog oak from the collections of the Royal Cork Institute. He also notes that he is unlikely to ever visit Ireland again as he "could not face the sea- sickness any more ..."
Reference:
PR70/B/415
Date:
13 January 1876
Title:
Copy letter from Florence MacCarthy, 3 [?Breethland] Street, Plymouth [England] to
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