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Letters to James Pearse from E.H. Johnston. The letters refer to payments of rent by Pearse on his residence at 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. With an enclosed set of accounts re payments for the upkeep of the premises.

Letters from J. Graham Alexander, solicitor, 47 Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, to James Pearse, relating to rent on Pearse’s premises at 27 Great Brunswick Street in Dublin.

Letters from J. Graham Alexander, 47 Lower Gardner Street, Dublin, to James Pearse, re ‘Johnston, a bankrupt’. The first letter encloses a copy of a letter (29 Aug. 1888) to Alexander from Messrs Casey & Clay.

Letters to James Pearse from a Mr. Humphreys, ‘The National Reformer’, 20 Circus Road, St. John’s Wood, London. The letters to a manuscript sent by Pearse for possible publication. Humphreys affirms that Charles Bradlaugh ‘has been so much occupied with the litigation that he has not yet had time to examine’ the manuscript (29 December 1889).

Letters to James Pearse, 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, from the Treasurer’s Department, City of Birmingham Council, re the repayment of a loan of £100. The file includes a statement of loan repayment and a receipt for the same.

This section contains a small of collection of letters to Patrick Pearse. Many of the letters relate to Pearse’s fundraising trip to the United States from March to June 1914. The purpose of the visit was to raise funds for St. Enda’s School in Dublin and many of the letters are from potential donors and Irish Americans sympathetic to Pearse’s cultural nationalism and his efforts to promote the revival of the Irish language. Other letters relate to the routine management of St. Enda’s and to Pearse’s involvement with the Irish Volunteers.