BIB_ID
431171
Accession number
MA 23384.2
Creator
O'Connor, Feargus, 1794-1855.
Display Date
Lowlands, England, 1840s?.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 19.7 x 12.6 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 "Sunday." 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 "Sunday." 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
Regretting that Jones has an engagement that will prevent him from joining the staff until the following week; directing Jones to write him a letter "expressing your willingness to accept the office of Editor of Labourer & Star;" discussing his terms; adding "I think your friend the Barrister deserved all he got" and commenting further on the case.
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