Diarmaid L. Fawsitt Archive Section 1 Desc. List.

Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt

PR81/1/5 Industrial Development and Trade (1920s-1930s)

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/031

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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/035

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7 September 1923

21 September 1923

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Letter from DJ McGrath to (Fawsitt)

(Copy) letter from (Fawsitt) to DJ McGrath, New York

Extent: 3pp

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Scope and Content: Letter from McGrath to (Fawsitt), expressing sympathy on his ‘departure from Merrion St’, and his distress at Fawsitt’’s ‘tightened and harassing economic situation’. He refers to ‘your brush with L.C. & the vile attack in the [G.s.]’. He is not now sending Fawsitt the auditor’s report on the Depot. He notes he was proceeding to advertise sale, Mrs Slattery having ‘explicitly & emphatically stated’ she was not a bidder, when the committee (of management) threatened an injunction if sale was not made to Slattery at her own figure. Slattery has made an ‘absurd’ offer of $4500, about one-fifth of the book value, while the few bidders McGrath had secured ‘baulked when they heard the words “injunction” & “boycott”’.

Scope and Content: (Copy) letter from (Fawsitt) to McGrath expressing his surprise at having learned from the Gaelic League that a local offer had been accepted for the New York Store, subject to peaceable possession of assets. He wishes he had earlier knowledge of this development. He explains that he has cabled Mrs Slattery [PR81/1/5/A/03/34]. If she does not object to his bidding, Fawsitt intends to bid £1800 Stg. He states ‘in the present state of affairs in the country generally, and in view of my own special predicament I feel willy-nilly compelled to decide to emigrate again if only temporarily until a return to normalcy here’.

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/032

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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/036

Date:

18 September 1923

Datestamped 22 September [1923]

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(Copy) letter from (Fawsitt) to DJ McGrath

Telegram from Slattery to Fawsitt

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Scope and Content: (Copy) letter from (Fawsitt) to McGrath, thanking him for his of 7 September. He notes he was in Cork seeing off ‘my Brooklyn friends’, including Cardinal Doherty, ‘Judge C [Coholan], D.L., et al’. He speculates ‘Dan’ [Coholan] hopes his ‘Free State plunge’ will help him secure a further term in office. He describes the information regarding the store and its committee as ‘a new revelation’. Mrs Slattery had stated to him repeatedly that she was not a bidder. Fawsitt notes he wrote to her again last week but did not disclose he may be a bidder. He will ask the Gaelic League’s views on this. He refers to being denied two jobs to which he felt he had ‘strong claims’. He speculates as to the make-up of the new cabinet, as the new Dail is to meet tomorrow. He has heard ‘talk of Fitzgerald taking a job in Geneva’.

Scope and Content: Telegram from Slattery to Fawsitt: ‘No objection your bidding / Fearons offer including me as partner / [signed] Slattery’.

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/037

Date:

22 September 1923

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Telegram from Fawsitt to Slattery

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Scope and Content: Telegram from Fawsitt to Slattery: ‘In circumstances will not compete’ [cf PR81/1/5/A/03/36]

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/033

Date:

21 September 1923

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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/038

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Note (by Fawsitt)

21-24 September 1923

Extent: 1p

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Note (by Fawsitt) of correspondence

Scope and Content: Note (by Fawsitt) noting that Frank Fahy, TD, Secretary, Gaelic League, confirmed McGrath’s statement of 7 September regarding the New York Store. He further notes that the League had accepted a bid from a Dublin man. The deal would go through automatically if the Store’s assets etc could be secured amicably from the Committee and Mrs Slattery. Fahy has allowed Fawsitt to take away for study a copy of the auditor’s report of 31 July 1923.

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Scope and Content: Note (by Fawsitt) of two cables sent on 24 September 1923 and of related correspondence. The first cable is to Mrs Kirby, c/o 390 Fourth St, Brooklyn, New York, stating ‘outriders bid accepted... Slattery Fearon offer should be increased... if unwilling increase suggest Slattery buy for me at fifteen hundred... urgent’. The second cable is to McGrath: ‘local bidding closed: cabling Kirby suggesting Slattery offer fifteen hundred my account if you are in position to sell’. The other three notes refer to sending ‘particulars of accounts of Store’ to TP Dowdall, Cork on 22 Sep; informing McGrath of cables exchanged with Slattery; and ‘confirmed by letter card cable sent Mrs Slattery on 21st inst’.

Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/034

Date:

21 September 1923

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Note with transcript of cable (by Fawsitt)

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Scope and Content: Note with transcript copy of cable sent by Fawsitt to Mrs Slattery on this date: ‘acceptable offer submitted locally Since you not buying have you any objection my submitting bid for store [signed] Fawsitt’.

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