Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

Extent: 2 items Scope and Content:

1. 13 Nov 1846 Printed pamphlet, 'Distress in Ireland', issued by the Society of Friends (Quaker) Central Committee, Dublin. With list of the 21 members of the committee (including Richard Allen, Thomas Pim, and Adam Woods) and corresponding members from around Ireland (including Abraham Beale and Ebeneezer Pike, Cork). Text of address by committee to the members in Ireland by Joseph Bewley and Jonatham Pim, secretaries, concerning the famine, measures to alleviate hunger such as 'soup shops', collection of funds. Also extracts of letters from 3 correspondents in Westmeath, the midlands and Waterford City, concerning the effects of famine and efforts to help. With list of subscriptions of Friends in Dublin for a central relief fund. (4pp)

2. Jan 1855 Printed circular, 'A Christian Appeal from the Society of Friends to Their Fellow Countrymen On the Present War', against the 'sanguiary confilct now raging in the East' (the Crimean War). (4pp)

Ref.

U140/J/04/10

Date:

22 Sep 1848

Level : item Title:

Holy Trinity Church Appeal

Extent: 2pp Scope and Content:

Printed circular letter appealing for funds to complete the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Charlotte Quay, Cork. £4,000 is required. James Roche Chairman, Francis Lyons, Treasurer. With signatures of committee members including William Lyons, Mayor of Cork. (Church was started in 1832).

J/05: Charities

1824-1860s(11 files/series)

Ref.

U140/J/05

Date:

1824 - 1860s

Level : series Title: Charities Extent: 11 files/series Scope and Content:

MSS. material (mainly printed) kept by Richard Dowden relating to charitable institutions and organisations including Cork Charitable Loan Society, House of Industry, Sick Poor, Magdalen Asylum, Blind Asylum, Cork central Ragged School Association, Ocean Penny Postage.

Ref.

U140/J/05/01

Date:

June 1824, June 1830

Level : item Title: Extent: 8pp

Cork Charitable Loan Society Reports

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List