Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

70 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 203 MARY ANNE O’CONOR Autographed letter FromM(ary Anne) O’Conor to Thomas L. Kelly in Dublin dated at Clonalis, 7 March (1840). Three pages (18.5 x 23 cm). with address panel stamp and wax seal. In very good condition. A rare and interesting letter: “I dislike keeping money in the House and we never have beyond a certain sum in our Bank at Castlerea and the tenants immediately near. For convenience pay me instead of our Agent who resides at present in Sligo. I enclose £100 which I shall feel exceedingly obliged to you to get Messieurs Curtis & Power to put in the three and a half old per cents for OCD [O’Conor Don] I had a few lines fromOCD today he says the rumours of dissolution are again gaining ground. The Corn Law Question is making great progress in England he says and even the Tories are willing to compromise it if they took office. How Ireland will be affected by such a change it is hard to say but certainly her Landed Proprietors deprecate it however it is all the same if the Question be carried in England it will pass ... . “ Mary Anne O’Conor, daughter of Major Blake of Towerhill, County Mayo, married Denis O’Conor of Bela- nagare and Clonalis House, County Roscommon, in 1824. Denis O’Conor, known as The O’Conor Don, was MP for Roscommon 1831-47; he had large estates in Roscommon and Sligo. He became a Treasury Lord in 1846 and that year supported the repeal of the Corn Laws, although he had earlier voted against their abolition. There are family archives at Clonalis House, Castlerea, County Roscommon (according to the Oxford DNB entry for Charles Owen O’Conor); the title O’Conor Don was a hereditary one of this branch of the ancient O’Conor family (hence OCD in the letter). € 250 - 350 204 A LEASE OF PART OF THE LANDS OF UPPER BALLYORLEY, IN THE CO. OF WEXFORD dated 1st August 1815, Robert Donovan Gent.To Charles Murphy, farmer. With map of the Lands of Upper Ballyorley in colour. Vellum document. Signed by Donovan and Murphy. € 100 - 200 205 WHATELY, RICHARD, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. Autographed Letter Signed from RichardWhately,Archbishop of Dublin to Lady Osborne [ancestor of George Osborne, MP] of Newtown Anner, County Tipperary, dated 17 March, 1848 Four pages octavo written on two sides only. In this letter he inquires ‘Surely you had a copy of my Speech? in it I said exactly the reverse of what is imputed to me. I said (pp. 12, 13) that I always did require a fair day’s work; but that anyone legally compelled to supply labourers could not enforce this. You may shew what I said in black and white. We are quiet thus far, and I have hopes we shall continue so, our hope is in you stay in the business? of Gov, or the cowardice of the Demagogues. I believe we have both advantages. / Ever you truly / R Dublin. € 150 - 200