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Letter to Anna Fahy confirming that the ‘bag of clothing’ she has sent has been given to her husband in Reading Jail. The letter adds ‘He is quite well. He is also allowed to write and receive three letters each week’.

Letter from William Woodlock, Vickery’s Hotel, Bantry, County Cork. The letter provides detail of his trip to Counties Cork and Kerry. In relation to Bantry, Woodlock wrote ‘Nearly all the names over the shops are English: in fact, it is hard to think one is in Ireland at all, with Kingstons, and Coopers, and Taylors, and Murrays, and Robinsons. The Papists are making a footing, for I saw the name of Moriarty over one of the best shops in the place’.

Letter from Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’), Conradh na Gaeilge, Cork, referring to his Irish translation of Daniel Dafoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’. His translation (‘Eachtra Robinson Crúsó’) was published by Conradh na Gaeilge in 1909.

Letter from Sister A.E. Woodward RSCJ, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Aberdeen, Scotland. The letter is addressed to Frances Woodlock (possibly William Woodlock’s wife) and refers to the school recently established by the religious sisters in the city. The letter adds ‘Aberdeen is a most interesting old place owing its origin to St. Machar, a disciple of St. Columba. It had many holy Bishops in the good old times and the tombs of several of them are still to be seen’.

Letter from Shan Ó Cuiv, ‘Evening Telegraph’, Townsend Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding the publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”.

Letter from Seán Ó Floinn, Kirwan’s Hotel, Carrick-on-Suir, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the publication of the work by Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. He also asks that copies be sent to John Henebry in Portlaw, County Waterford.

Letter from Robert. M.D. Sanders, Honorary Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention. Sanders asks for ‘particulars of any sales of tenant right’. He adds that the committee ‘desire this information for the purpose of ascertaining the relative value of the tenant right on estates’ since the passage of the Land Act of 1881.