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/13/2 Date: 16 September 1921 Title:
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/15
Date: 12 October 1921 - 13 October 1921
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MS. Letter from Kate Hogan Brennan, 4 Vernon Parade, Clontarf, (Dublin), to J. L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Irish Consul, U.S.A., Gresham Hotel, Dublin
Letter to Eamon de Valera (from Diarmaid Fawsitt, Dublin)
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Extent: 1 page
Scope and Content: 1. Letter to Eamon de Valera, T.D. President Dail Eireann (from Diarmaid Fawsitt). Fawsitt advises Eamon de Valera that he is travelling from Dublin to London at Mr Barton’s request and will be travelling with L. Smith Gordon and Professor Smiddy. Fawsitt has ‘sounded’ out unionist opinion in Dublin in respect of attitudes towards full fiscal freedom for Ireland. He reports no such serious argument was encountered, ‘on the contrary all were desirous that Ireland should have such powers’. The writer also reports on a lengthy discussion with Mr Andrew Jameson, who is ‘unwilling at this stage to participate actively with any body set up by the Ministry. He would participate were it agreed Ireland was to remain within the British Empire.’ Brief reference is also made to James O’Mara and the White Cross. (1.pp) 2.Letter of acknowledgment from Eamon de Valera. (1.pp)
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Scope and Content: Letter enclosing a letter from Mr Flanagan (no longer present) and confirming mortgage on Brennan’s late sister’s estate is paid.
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/13/3 Date: 16 September 1921 Title:
TS. Copy letter (from Diarmaid Fawsitt), Gresham Hotel, Dublin, to Mrs Kate Hogan Brennan, 4 Vernon Place (Parade), Clontarf (Dublin)
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Scope and Content: Copy of an unsigned and partially incomplete letter confirming receipt of letter received by Fawsitt from Mrs Brennan enclosing letter from Edward J. Flanagan, Attorney, 44 Court Street, Brooklyn, New York, confirming mortgage is clear on the estate of Mrs Brennan’s late sister (Bella Hogan).
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/16
Date: 8 March 1924
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Printed copy of The Gael, with article by Diarmaid Fawsitt on the case of Thomas Keating
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/13/4 Date: 23 September 1921 Title:
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Extent: 12 pages
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Scope and Content: Printed copy of The Gael (An Gaodhal), Vol I, No.21. Includes article by J.L. Fawsitt titled: ‘Was Keating of the IRA Victimised? J.L. Fawsitt Explains his position in Coal Contract Question’. The reply from Fawsitt is in relation to the case of Thomas Keating and a coal contract to Dublin Corporation dating to May 1921. Fawsitt replies that ‘I have not now access to the official papers...they were deposited by me in the archives of the New York Consulate-General’.
TS. Copy letter (from Diarmaid Fawsitt), Gresham Hotel, Dublin, to Mrs Kate Hogan Brennan, 4 Vernon Parade, Clontarf (Dublin)
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Scope and Content: Copy of an unsigned letter from Fawsitt to Mrs Brennan acknowledging her letter of 14 September (1921) and confirming that he has written to the Acting Consul in New York asking him to look into the ‘distribution of the proceeds of the property of your late deceased sister’. Reference: PR81/1/2/B/13/5 Date: 14 November 1921 Title: MS. Letter from Kate H. Brennan, 4 Vernon Parade, Clontarf, (Dublin), to J. L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Irish Consul, U.S.A., Grosvenor Hotel, London
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/17
Date: c.1920
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Business Card, J.L. Fawsitt (Diarmaid Fawsitt), Irish Consul in America
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Extent: 2 pages
Extent: 1 sheet
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Scope and Content: Letter thanking Fawsitt for his attention in the matter of settling her late sister’s estate. Mrs Brennan believes it was Fawsitt’s intervention which has been ‘instrumental in bringing it to a conclusion’. Brennan expects the matter to be resolved by December (1921).
Scope and Content: Printed business card, J.L. Fawsitt, Irish Consul in America, telephone; Worth 7113, address; Suite 404 280 Broadway, New York.
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/18
Date: 18 October 1921 - 15 November 1921 (12 December 1923)
Reference: PR81/1/2/B/14
Date: 24 September 1921
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Outgoing Letterbook, Correspondence sent by Diarmaid Fawsitt from London in respect of New York consulate, trade, and Anglo-Irish treaty matters
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Telegram to Diarmaid Fawsitt from unidentified sender [James O’Mara], Cavehill, New York
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Extent: 21 pages (1 volume)
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Extent: 2 pages
Scope and Content: Paperback volume containing pencil copies of outgoing letters from Fawsitt to a number of different correspondents. The letters span the period after Fawsitt’s arrival in London during the treaty negotiations. The subjects of the letters relate to consulate and industry matters with very little commentary on the peace treaty negotiations. Includes letters sent to D. Cronin (Donal Cronin, Cork
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Scope and Content: Telegram written in code with second sheet containing cipher and decoded message. The telegram requests ‘Whitecross accounts’ be rendered and ‘constitution submitted’. Apparently from James O’Mara and relating to relief funds for the Irish White Cross.
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