Daniel MacCarthy Glas Collection- Descriptive List

Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection

Reference:

PR70/B/12

Date:

12 October 1844

Title: Level:

Letter from [William] Betham, Dublin to Daniel MacCarthy.

Item

Extent: Part of:

4pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Betham acknowledges Daniel's payment of fifty pounds and says he was delayed in signing and sending Daniel's pedigree because he was in a carriage accident in Suffolk.

Reference:

PR70/B/13

Date:

29 October 1844

Title: Level:

Letter from [William] Betham, Dublin to Daniel MacCarthy, Florence, Italy.

Item

Extent: Part of:

4pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Betham apologises again for the delay in sending the pedigree to Daniel, but says it has been sent to Messers [?McCracken] today. He says the wound on his leg is very deep and he can "only go out in a carriage."

Reference:

PR70/B/14

Date:

1 September 1846

Title: Level:

Letter from [William Betham], Dublin Castle [Dublin] to Daniel MacCarthy.

Item

Extent: Part of:

4pp

PR70/B

Scope and Content: Betham writes that he was mortified to find that Daniel had already left Florence when he visited recently. He says his daughter "Mrs [?Hardinge]" and her family are returning from Nice via Paris, and Betham thanks Daniel for sharing his address in Paris with them. He says he will send Daniel the Dunmanway branch of the MacCarthys but expects that Daniel possesses "in [his] book all the information [Betham has] on the subject."

Reference:

PR70/B/15

Date:

28 September 1846

Title:

Letter from [William] Betham, Dublin to Daniel MacCarthy, 54 Avenue des Champs

Élysées, Paris [France]. Level: Item Extent: 4pp Part of: PR70/B Scope and Content:

Betham thanks Daniel for his hospitality when Betham's daughter and her family recently visited Paris. He says that he has read Rochford's letters [see letters from Bartholemew Rochford to Daniel MacCarthy PR70/B/560-564], and accuses Rochford of being "an interested schemer who hopes to profit by a correspondence with you." Betham discusses Edmund Shuldham's marriage to Mary MacCarthy and how their descendants still live in Dunmanway, and says he still believes that the pedigree he has sent Daniel of the Manshe [Manch] line is the correct pedigree.