Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
Reference:
PR70/B/29
Date:
[March 1848]
Title: Level:
Letter from [?MH de Cactries] to Daniel MacCarthy.
Item
Extent: Part of:
4pp
PR70/B
Scope and Content: [?Cactries] writes of the revolution being "like a bad dream" with "guns going off in every direction, drums beating, and our most gracious Sovereign, the mob." She writes of her [?husband] and son joining the National Guard to "see if anything can be done to introduce order ..." Her [?son] George has also joined "having no further occupation at the house of peers; that I suppose is for now at an end." This would seem to suggest it is the revolution which took place in France in 1848, where the Chamber of Peers was disbanded and the peerage was abolished. A note written by Daniel at the top of the letter reads: "Written during the Revolution of March 1848".
First page of a letter from [?MH de Cactries] to Daniel MacCarthy, detailing the 1848 French Revolution (including an annotation by Daniel at the top of the page). Further on in the letter, the author writes : “… we had a terrible day and night of it yesterday, what with guns going off in every direction, drums beating, and our most gracious sovereign the mob screaming …” (PR70/B/29)
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