Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/5 Industrial Development and Trade (1920s-1930s)
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/140
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Undated [10 May 1932]
two brokerage failures. He states that ‘the country is in a bad state’, with over-reliance on credit, high inflation, and 95% of cash ‘in the hands of a half dozen people’. He is still working, with a pay cut. He thinks up to 40 million people are in dire want. He expresses regret that he could not be home for the [Eucharistic] Congress. He sends best wishes to Fawsitt and his family. [The letter may be incomplete] Also present are two newscuttings, one showing ‘members of the Bonus Expeditionary Force sitting on the steps of the magnificent Capitol, waiting for jobs or the bonus’, and a cutting with photo showing an evicted family. The former cutting has an ms note initialled ‘JL’.
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Note from Slattery (to Fawsitt)
Extent: 1p
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Scope and Content: Note from Slattery (to Fawsitt) stating that she has sent 27 books and three extra tickets by registered mail, with four blank tickets ‘for the children’. She gives a summary of the cash involved, whcih totals £136 and 10 shillings.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/141
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Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/145
Date:
12 May 1932
18 July 1932
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Ts letter from Slattery to Fawsitt
Letter from Mrs Slattery to Mr Fawsitt
Extent: 1p
Extent: 1p
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Scope and Content: Ts letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, apologising for giving him trouble with her last letters, and stating that she has begun to search for the book [being sought by Fawsitt], and expects to locate it. She reports the Mrs Kirby is back from hospital. She states ‘we were all sure you would be drafted into government service immediately and still believe you will be one of the principal delegates to the conference’.
Scope and Content: Letter from Mrs Slattery to Mr Fawsitt, stating that his of the 6th only reached her today, while the books were mailed on the 7th. She states ‘there are not any “Kindly disposed travellers” these days’, and expresses her sorrow at the rudeness shown to Fawsitt by ‘his reverence’. She has had no word of Yugoslav stories yet.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/146
Date:
24 October 1932
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/142
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3 June 1932
Ts letter from Slattery to Fawsitt
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Extent: 2pp
Ts letter from Slattery (to Fawsitt)
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Extent: 1p
Scope and Content: Ts letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, referring to the Sweep [sweepstakes prize draw]. She refers to McCartan’s book, expressing concern that he may lose on the American edition as he paid for publication by Brentano’s and as it was ‘vigorously attacked by the G. Amer. and completely ignored by the I. World’. She reports that Sean Nunan is going into the New York Office as trade Commissioner. She states ‘we have definitely decided in closing up the shop’. She says that she does not care if she does not get the job in the Consulate, but ‘after all these years, I shall hate to be home all day’.
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Scope and Content: Ts letter from Slattery (to Fawsitt), regarding her efforts to locate volumes of ‘Short Stories’, and a book by Poperic sought by Fawsitt. She will arrange to send the five volumes of ‘Short Stories’ she has found. She asks if he had any luck in the Sweep.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/143
Date:
4 June 1932
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Ts letter from Slattery (to Fawsitt)
Extent: 1p
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/147
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24 May 1933
Scope and Content: Ts letter from Slattery (to Fawsitt), informing him that Fr Shanley sailed today and should reach Dublin about the 11th or 12th. She has sent five volumes of Eaton’s ‘Best Short Stories’ with him for Fawsitt. She states that she has ‘applied direct to Dublin through Stephen O’Mara for a position in the Consulate... as the Store is doing so badly, we may probably give up the end of the year’.
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Ts letter from Slattery to Fawsitt
Extent: 2pp
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Scope and Content: Ts letter from Slattery to Fawsitt, thining him for receipts [in connection with the Sweep]. She states that Mr McGrath ‘has opened the Chicago office and according to reports will have a very interesting Irish Exhibit there’. Slattery has sent him some Belleek china. She confirms tht Leo Fearon is in Ireland, and has left the Store. Regarding its future she notes ‘I now find things are not improving and very little hope of a buyer’. She reports on the health of Mrs Kirby and Dr Kelly, noting that the former’s illness has cost her $6000. She wishes Fawsitt well with his legal work.
Reference: PR81/1/5/A/03/144
Date:
11 July [1932]
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Ms letter from John Logan, 832 Turk St, San Francisco, to Fawsitt
Extent: 1p and 2 enclosures
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Scope and Content: Ms letter from John Logan, 832 Turk St, San Francisco, to Fawsitt, apologising for not writing in so long, and thanking him for getting him tickets in the Sweep. He explains that he lost eight years’ savings in
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