Descriptive List of the Personal Archive of Diarmaid L. Fawsitt
PR81/1/2 New York Consulate (Jul 1919 - Oct 1921)
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/11
Date: 12 September 1921
2. Copy letter, unsigned, from D Fawsitt, written in acknowledgment of letter received from Fr O’Brien, Buttevant, Co. Cork. Father O’Brien’s original letter is not present. 1 page. Reference: PR81/1/2/B/10 Date: 8 September 1921 - 19 October 1921 Title: Outgoing Letterbook, Diarmaid Fawsitt to D.J. McGrath Level: item Extent: 100 pages (1 volume) Scope and Content: Paperback volume containing pencil copies of outgoing letters from Fawsitt to D.J. McGrath, Acting Consul at the Irish Consulate in New York. The letters span the period after Fawsitt’s return to Dublin and conclude during the treaty negotiations in Dublin. The bulk of the letters relate to consulate rather than treaty matters. A small number are personal or family related. Includes: 28 September 1921 , Letter referring to timing of new tarriff due to come into force and cipher for interpreting messages written in code. 28 September 1921 , Eochaill (Youghal), Fawsitt writes to state that himself and Mrs Slattery have held a conference with the Gaelic League in connection with the league’s ongoing commitment to the Irish Industries Depot, 779 Lexington Avenue, New York. The conference agrees the league will continue to keep up the store (depot) but that Mrs Slattery must submit a monthly financial return on the finances of the depot. The letter outlines Mrs Slattery’s formal resignation and Fawsitt’s views on her replacement, ‘male’ and ‘Irish speaker’. 28 September 1921 , Bayville (Youghal), personal letter from Fawsitt about family activity at the beach in Youghal following railway strike preventing his return to Dublin. The letter refers to playing hurling on the strand and playing cards ‘old maid’ with his family. 2 October 1921 , Youghal, Fawsitt has received case of books and is arranging to send books to the Cork Public Library. Freight fees for shipping books to be charged to Fawsitt and not to the library committee or consulate. Possibly relates to efforts to replace books lost following December 1920 fire at Carnegie Library, Cork. 2 October 1921 , Youghal, Fawsitt remarks that he saw the SS Celtic passing Youghal in the direction of Cobh and bound for New York. The letter goes on to speculate on Harry Boland’s possible appointment as American Ambassador: ‘the serious minded of our people here as well as there will deplore the appointment’. Commenting on the Anglo-Irish peace negotiations, ‘the US government is unlikely to do anything likely in any way to mar the proceedings at peace conference’. The letter also details Fawsitt’s refusal of the offer of secretary-ship of the Economic Advisory Committee to the plenipotentiary and de Valera’s efforts to broaden the committee’s membership to meet Fawsitt’s conditions for accepting the position. 4 October 1921 , Letter from Fawsitt ‘I have been appointed Technical Secretary to the Minister for Economic Affairs during the period of the conference in London. I have also been appointed on the Economies Commission’ 5 October 1921 , Request from John Haughey, Fish Merchant, Killybegs, Co. Donegal, for list of reliable United States based buyers of Irish cured herring and mackerel. 14 October 1921 , London, ‘both parties are fencing - avoiding the main issue - truce & trade are subjects of discussion at the moment... I will endeavour to have the Cobh embargo question raised with a view to its lifting soon’ 19 October 1921 , London, refers to books received and required, apparently numbers are taken from the bibliography on treaties and treaty-making sent on by McGrath to Fawsitt.
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Letter to Diarmaid Fawsitt from unidentfied sender, Detroit, United States of America
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Extent: 4 pages
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Scope and Content: Coded letter from unidentified sender to ‘Dear Mr Fawsitt’. Appears to be written by a government official in or near Detroit, as he requests Fawsitt deliver a talk in that city. The writer requests Fawsitt to ‘put me straight’ on Kennedy and the American Tobacco Company, and the ‘Tralee monies’. He also writes to refresh Fawsitt’s memory on an offer of ‘hogsheads, malt & hops to the Irish brewing trade’.
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/12
Date: 12 September 1921
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Letter from Daniel J. McGrath, Acting Consul, Irish Consulate, New York to Mr J.L Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), 27 Grand Parade, Cork.
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Damaged, fragile. Letter from Daniel McGrath, Acting Consul, Irish Consulate, New York to Mr J.L Fawsitt, 27 Grand Parade, Cork. The letter refers to bank draft (not enclosed) for $174:8:0, payable to Fawsitt from the National Bank Ltd. Other items referred to include Corona Typewriter Literature and Peter McSwiney. More generally McGrath refers to matters in New York: ‘unemployment conditions here are dreadful and shoals of our nationals are descending upon the consulate every day soliciting help.’
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/13
Date: 14 September 1921 - 14 November 1921
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Letters to Diarmaid Fawsitt and the Irish Consulate, New York, from Kate Hogan Brennan, 4 Vernon Parade, Clontarf, Dublin
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Extent: 5 items
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Scope and Content: Letter correspondence from Kate Hogan Brennan, to the Irish consul in New York. Relates to Brennan’s query in respect of legal fees and delays associated with the settlement of the New York estate of her late sister, Bella Hogan (d. November 1917).
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/13/1 Date: 14 September 1921 Title:
MS. Letter from Kate Hogan Brennan, 4 Vernon Parade, Clontarf, Dublin, to J. Fawcitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Irish Consulate, U.S.A., Gresham Hotel, Dublin
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Extent: 2 pages
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Scope and Content: Letter concerning an ‘interview’ Brennan has had with Fawsitt about the settlement of a ‘very small estate’. The estate is that of Brennan’s late sister, Bella Hogan, who is noted as having died in Brooklyn, New York, in November 1917. The letter also refers to Brennan’s attorney, a Mr E.J. Flanagan, 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, New York. Brennan notes that she is the eldest of two surviving sisters of Bella Hogan, the other being her sister Susan Hogan of Tulla, Co. Clare.
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