Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

Mar 1841 MS. hotel receipt, marked 'Limerick'. (2pp)

Ref.

U140/K/3/102

Date:

1839 - 1842

Level : file Title:

Scrapbook Page

Extent: 11 items Scope and Content: 15 Feb 1841 Circular notice regarding fancy ball for the benefit of Mr. McDowell, Imperial Clarence Hotel. (1p)

nd Handbill regarding summer show of Horticultural Society at Imperial Clarence Hotel, with band of the 19th Regiment attending. (1 item)

28 Feb 1840 Fragment of newsclipping, supplement to the Dublin Gazette. (1 item)

nd Handbill/advert regarding 'LIVING PHENOMENON....MISS MARIETTE ROVARL', aged 22 and weighing 622 pounds. She is on display in London by Mr. Paris. (1p)

9 Aug 1841 Handbill 'New Corporation of Cork... Lee Ward', meeting of ratepayers in the Liberal interest at the old Dominick Street Chapel, for selection of town councillors. (1p)

1839 Fragment of request for meeting of friends of the liberal party in Ireland re. registration of Irish constituencies. (1 item)

nd Fragment of MS. note, mentions [Presbyterian] congregation. (1 item)

nd Newsclipping regarding reduced revenue and manufacturing of spirits. (1 item)

nd Fragment of tag or ticket, 'From Stevensons 132 George Street, Limerick'. (1 item)

21 Jan 1840 Circular letter from Thomas Murray RC, Missionary of Cape Clear Island. Mentions building of chapel for 1,500 'destitute' people. Appeals for funds from his 'countrymen at large'. Refers to inadequate arrangements regarding mass, clergy on the Island. (1p)

4 Jul 1840 Notice of meeting, Cork Anti-Slavery Society. (1p)

Ref.

U140/K/3/103

Date:

c1845

Level : file Title:

Scrapbook Page

Extent: 6 items Scope and Content:

nd Handbill, 'WHY AM I A TEE-TOTALLER?', with list of 18 reasons, such as '4. Because out drinking fashions produce a vast amount of poverty, domestic misery, insolvency, bankruptcy, crime, destruction of property, disease and premature death.'. Also 6 'SOLEMN FACTS', claiming a million drunkards in the Kingdom, 50 millions spent on intoxicating drink, destroying 'more than sword, famine, and the convulsions of nature...', etc. (1p)

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

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