BIB_ID
431053
Accession number
MA 23383.3
Creator
O'Connell, Daniel, 1775-1847.
Display Date
Derrynane, County Kerry, Ireland, 1840 September 23.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.8 x 18.8 cm
Notes
O'Connell gives the place of writing as "Derrynane Abbey." He may be referring to Derrynane House, the O'Connell ancestral home located near the village of Derrynane in County Kerry, or the ruined abbey of that name on Abbey Island.
Marked "Private."
Based on internal evidence, the recipient is most likely John Quinlan, journalist and eventually proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post.
One of three letters from O'Connell to Quinlan in the Morgan's collection, cataloged individually as MA 23383.1-3.
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 42.
Marked "Private."
Based on internal evidence, the recipient is most likely John Quinlan, journalist and eventually proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post.
One of three letters from O'Connell to Quinlan in the Morgan's collection, cataloged individually as MA 23383.1-3.
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 42.
Summary
Writing that there is a "wicked Libel against me in your paper of the 15th" and that he "sees plainly it is the work of your Castle Correspondent;" saying that he is "obliged to appear more angry than I am and I am not at all angry with you or with any body actually concerned in the paper -- but I must strongly repel this attack;" asking Quinlan to give his kind compliments to Conway (probably a reference to Frederick Conway) when he returns and tell him how amusing O'Connell finds his letters; adding "I always agreed with him as he was -- and I think with him still;" directing Quinlan to "[p]rint my letter carefully."
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