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U140/L/088
Date:
1830, 1847
Level : series Title:
Letters from Maurice O'Connell
Extent: 2 items Scope and Content:
1. 3 Mar 1830 MS. letter from Maurice O'Connell, [son of Daniel O'Connell MP], London, to Richard Dowden 48 Great Georges Street. His father asked him to acknowledge receipt of Dowden's letter. He will not only support the prayer, but will bring in an Act to amend the vestry laws to liberate the Protestant Dissenters from being compelled to hold the office of Church Warden. Dowden may rely on his father's '...most ardent persevering and uncompromising...support in and out of Parliament'. Regarding Dowden's suggestion on the regulation of wages, his father deems it not wise or prudent to regulate contracts of labour. Dowden's opinions regarding excise are 'very just and wise'. Refers to Repeal of the Union being the '...leading issue of Political Life in Ireland... without it...any remedy is merely a palliative... political institutions may be rendered truly beneficial by the influence of the Democratic principle and the estalishment of perpetual popular control over those public servants who are at present our Masters'. Maurice states that his father is truly proud of Dowden's good opinions and ventures "to say that altho' you may occasionally think him mistaken, you shall always find him honest". (7pp)
2. 21 Mar 1847 As above, Derrynane Abbey, to Richard Dowden, regretting he has no autograph of 'The Liberator' (Daniel O'Connell), etc . (2pp)
Ref.
U140/L/089
Date:
3 Mar [?1830s-40s]
Level : item Title:
Letter from [Andrew] O'Dwyer
Extent: 3pp Scope and Content:
MS. letter from [Andrew] O'Dwyer (MP, b1800 - d1877, close friend of Daniel O'Connell), Maddox Street, Hanover Square, London to Richard Dowden. He was unable to answer at length as he is harried by close attention to the House (House of Commons). The amendments which Dowden properly suggests were proposed last night, '...we ought to be exceedingly thankful to Ministers for not proposing the adoption of the [measure] and a summary power of using it. In the present temper of the House there could be nothing proposed too monstrous nor unconstitutional...', etc.
Ref.
U140/L/090
Date:
22 Feb 1836
Level : item Title:
Letter from Joseph O'Leary
Extent: 2pp Scope and Content:
MS. letter from Joseph O'Leary (b.c1795 - d.c1855 journalist, balladeer, reporter with Morning Herald and Chronicle), 10 Church Street, Smith Square, Westminster, London, to 'My dear Sir',
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