BIB_ID
189775
Accession number
MA 23384.1
Creator
O'Connor, Feargus, 1794-1855.
Display Date
Lowlands, England, 1840s?.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 19.7 x 12.7 cm
Notes
O'Connor addresses the recipient only as "Jones." Based on internal evidence, this is most likely Ernest Jones, who O'Connor hired to work on the newspaper The Northern Star and with whom he later co-edited the journal The Labourer.
The letter is dated only "Monday." O'Connor founded The Northern Star in 1837, and O'Connor and Jones co-edited The Labourer in 1847-1848. Based on the contents of the letter, it was probably written during the 1840s.
O'Connor gives the place of writing as "Lowlands." This may refer to the Chartist settlement of that name in Gloucestershire.
Docketed.
One of three letters from O'Connor to Jones in the Morgan's collection, cataloged individually as MA 23384.1-3.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume IX, page 191.
The letter is dated only "Monday." O'Connor founded The Northern Star in 1837, and O'Connor and Jones co-edited The Labourer in 1847-1848. Based on the contents of the letter, it was probably written during the 1840s.
O'Connor gives the place of writing as "Lowlands." This may refer to the Chartist settlement of that name in Gloucestershire.
Docketed.
One of three letters from O'Connor to Jones in the Morgan's collection, cataloged individually as MA 23384.1-3.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume IX, page 191.
Summary
Writing about a magazine; listing the circulation numbers needed in order to clear expenses; directing Jones to read last proofs of the magazine before going to press; discussing the difficulties involved, but saying "I am quite satisfied and determined to go on, but I must have the satisfaction of good work for my share;" asking Jones to tell him whether "you think you are capable of [making] up the weekly news for the Star [...] and if capable, whether you are willing, for the work must be well done;" describing further duties that the job would entail.
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