Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/5 Industrial Development and Trade (1920s-1930s)
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/006
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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/3/011
Date:
18 February 1922
11 April 1922
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Letter from DJ McGrath, Irish Consular Service, Irish Consulate, New York, to JL Fawsitt, St Petroc’s, Stillorgan, Co Dublin
Letter from Mrs Mary Slattery to J.L. Fawsitt
Extent: 1p
Scope and Content: Letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, forwarding a copy of a letter (PR81/1/5/A/03/05), and stating that she and her brother, Leo, are prepared to take over the business ‘at reasonable price’. She notes that the (Gaelic League) ignored the stores’ Management Committee in deciding on and making arrangements for disposal. She adds ‘I am glad... that this thing is coming to an end. They are an impossible crowd to do business with’.
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Extent: 2pp
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Scope and Content: Letter (with enclosure) from DJ McGrath to Fawsitt, acknowledging his with clippings regarding ‘Friends of the Irish Free State’. McGrath states ‘they consist mainly of pinhead nonentities, hitherto unknown’. He states that Mrs Slattery has asked him to name a selling figure for the Depot based on the last balance sheet. He adds that he gave her a ‘purely paper estimate’ of 20-25000 dollars, but notes that were he the purchaser he would not pay much more than half that figure. He has heard nothing further from Mr Duggan.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/007
Date:
Undated
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Rough note of finances
Extent: 1p
Scope and Content: Rough note of assets [of Irish Industries Depot, New York]. Notes ‘cash at bank’, Bank of Ireland, value of fixtures, cash account, goods to hand, and accounts receivable. The total is $29,399.50. Unsigned. (On Irish Provisional Government stationery).
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/012
Date:
26 April 1922
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Letter from Fawsitt to Daniel J McGrath, Irish Consulate, New York
Extent: 1p
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Scope and Content: Letter from Fawsitt to McGrath, acknowledging his of 11 April, and expressing surprise that Mrs Slattery called on him to ask his assistance in arriving at a figure to offer for the Depot. He notes that Mr Duggan has shown him McGrath’s letter.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/008
Date:
2 March 1922
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Letter (from Fawsitt) to Mrs M Slattery
Extent: 1p
Scope and Content: (Copy) letter from (Fawsitt), St Petroc, Stillorgan, to Slattery, stating that he has spoken to O’Muirthuille and that he is agreeable to arrange with Fawsitt sale of the store to her. Fawsitt asks Slattery to instruct as to what she is prepared to pay, and to give him latitude in case her first bid is not accepted. He advises that totalling cash, bank accounts, stock, etc, may help arrive at a valuation, and asks her to cable him these figures [cf PR81/1/5A/03/07].
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/013
Date:
12 May 1922
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Letter from Mary M Slattery to JL Fawsitt (with enclosure)
Extent: 2pp
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Scope and Content: Letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, enclosing a copy of communication from Mr McGrath (containing his estimate), ‘which certainly surprised me’. She states ‘I really thought the place could be procured for about one thousand pounds’, which now looks ‘ridiculous’. She explains she could not pay such an amount, unless the Gaelic League were willing to take it in instalments over three years, by which time, she notes, the lease will be up.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/009
Date:
23 March 1922
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Ms letter from Mrs Slattery to Fawsitt
Extent: 2pp
Scope and Content: Letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, acknowledging his of 2 March and promising to get back to him within a week or 10 days, explaining ‘at this time I am quite upset’ and that her brother is ‘very seriously ill’.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/014
Date:
12 May 1922
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Letter from MM Slattery to JL Fawsitt
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/010
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Extent: 1p
25 April 1922
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Scope and Content: Letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, explaining (‘for your own information’) that ‘since you went away things have been very slow here for the simple reason we get no help of any kind from the Consul’. She adds he has expressed a wish to see the Depot closed down and notes there has not been one order on his recommendation. She notes that at a rent of $300 a month, she would not presently wish to undertake the business ‘at any price’. She notes Jim Larkin is out of prison again (‘a good move for the Republican Governor’). She asks after his family and adds that her brother is fairly well.
Letter from (Fawsitt), Ministry of Economic Affairs, to Mrs MM Slattery, Irish Industries, 779, Lexington Avenue, New York City
Level:
Extent: 1p
Scope and Content: Ts letter from Fawsitt to Slattery, noting that the secretary of the Gaelic League has again been asking about her intention regarding the store, and reminding her that the League’s solicitor has stayed action on sale, at Fawsitt’s request, on Slattery’s behalf. He asks for the latest auditor’s statement of accounts and a provisional offer, ‘if you are still desirous of acquiring the Store’.
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