Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

1. 15 Oct 1831 Printed notice of meeting of Committee on Reform requesting enclosed resolution is seconded. MS. Resolution- fragment, thanks to Lord Athorp, John Russell, and other friends of reform in the House of Commons. (1p)

2. [c1831] Fragment of printed poster, 'Great Reform Meeting...At Nelson's Place...One Hundred and Ninety Tithe & Tax Eaters...In the House of Lords have attempted to defeat the Interests of Twenty - two Millions of English, Scotch and Irish Men...'. (1 item)

3. [c1831] MS. [draft] resolution made from 'We the undersigned' requesting a meeting 'of our fellow Citizens to take the present awful crisis of our rights liberties and privileges into consideration and to show the friends of freedom and reform in England, Ireland and Scotland the real strength of their supporters'. (1p)

Ref.

U140/J/02/06

Date:

1836 - 1852

Level : file Title:

Poor Law

Extent: 9 items Scope and Content:

1. 10 July 1836 Printed circular letter/address re. [Poor] Laws, to Daniel O'Connell MP, from '...the grateful servant of Ireland's Liberator, Economist'. Refers to problems of establishing a Poor Rate in Ireland. (4pp) 2. 30 Oct 1840 Printed 'Report on the Industrial Plan of Education under the direction of the Poor Law Commissioners in England', by Henry Biggs assistant secretary to the Cork Foundling Hospital, to the Governors of the hospital. Refers to education of pauper children in England. (26pp)

3. 4 Nov 1845 Printed circular letter from Andrew Roche LAC, and George Wycherly MD, offering candidacy for office of vaccinators to the Cork electoral division of the Cork Union. (1p)

4. 6 Nov. 1845 Printed pamphlet from John Classon, 'To the People of Ireland Who Subsist on Potatoes and a few Hints to Others'. Gives advice on keeping and growing potatoes, creation of farina and starch as a way of preserving them. Refers to possibility of the Union Workhouses taking in and preserving 'the potatoes that will not keep in the miserable damp pits of the poor...'. (3pp) 5. 1846 - 1847 Series of printed notices from the Clerk of Cork Union to [Richard Dowden] concerning sites for Fever Hospital, his election as Guardian for year ending 25 March 1847, increasing salary of chaplains to Workhouse, salaries of various officials, extension of wards, nurses ward, infants school home, resolution re. nationalisation of poor rate. Also printed copy of article on 'The Poor and the Poor-Laws' from 'The Topic' 13 Jun 1846. (7 items)

6. 10 Mar 1847 Printed/MS. notice for adjourned meeting of Guardians of the Cork Union to consider letters from Board of Health re. spread of fever in the city. (1p)

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List