Showing 7776 results

Letter to Walsh from Dalton enclosing a copy of Maiden’s first treatment of Blackcock’s Feather. States that it will require alteration. Maiden may have to return home before his intended visit to Dublin. Dalton states that ‘there is a deep depression of the Studios regarding the production of Historical and Swashbuckling pictures’, but vows to continue ‘for all I am worth’ in promoting the project. Encloses a sheet with eight points about the adaptation. The draft itself is paginated and runs to 82 pages.

Letter from Metcalfe, Lilburn & Enright, Public Accountants, 46 O’Connell Street, Limerick, to Mrs Michael Allott, Odell Ville, Ballingarry, county Limerick, enclosing a list of documents deposited with the Bank of Ireland for safekeeping.

Letter from ‘J’ to an unidentified recipient enclosing a list of the names and ranks of 16 West Clare Brigade Volunteers, three civilians and one attached Volunteer who died during the War of Independence or the Civil War.

Letter enclosing a photocopy of a drawing of a harp seeking assistance in deciphering Irish text on the top curved section of the instrument.

Letter to Walsh from J. [?] B., 3 Homesteads, Stirling. He includes the text of a short poem which he wrote three months earlier but has not improved-upon since and sends it now ‘because it is probably the last piece of my handwriting you will ever see’. He is now suffering from dropsy as well as heart disease. The poem of twelve lines begins: ‘No single rhyme for Brereton [the writer] can be found’.

Letter from Battersby & Co., Auctioneers & Valuers, 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, to E. Lloyd, Heathfield, Kilmeady[, county Limerick], enclosing in the form of a notebook a valuation of furniture and effects in Heathfield.

Letter to Maurice Walsh, ‘Ard-na-Glaise’, Stillorgan Park, Blackrock, county Dublin, son of Maurice and Caroline Walsh, from K. M. O’Brien, Guinness Group Sales (Ireland) Limited, St. James’s Gate, Dublin, enclosing drawings which he sent on 17 April 1964. The drawings are advertisements for Guinness. Two are on tracing paper. One has the slogan: ‘And all the strumpets sounded for him on the other side’ and the other: ‘Palm in Gilead’. A third is on card and has the slogan: ‘All his wets about him’.

Letter from Sylvia Tankel, Editor, Short Story International, 6 Sheffield Road, Great Neck, New York, enclosing an agreement form for the short story Portrait accepted for publication.

Brown envelope containing a letter from Don O’Malley to Grace O'Malley Cantillon attaching an article by Rory O’Malley entitled ‘Why No Victoria O’Malley? A family saga regarding a journey of Elizabeth and James O’Malley from Limerick, Ireland to Otago, New Zealand in 1903’ and a family tree of James and Elizabeth O’Malley and their descendants.