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The History Sale 19th April 2016
An ALS to Joseph Collinson (Of the Humanitar-
ian League) about the abolition of the “British
Institution” of the treadmill in prisons, 2pp, 7 x
4½ inches, on House of Commons blindstamped
headed paper.
€ 120 - 180
An ALS to R. D. Williams, thanking his friends in the Carnacon Liberal
Association for their message and resolution, which O’Brien will treasure
“as one of many proofs of the sterling sympathy which our welsh kindred
have so uniformly extended to the Irish people in their present period of
suffering” 1 pages, 7½ x 5 inches, on House of Commons blindstamped
headed paper.
€ 120 - 180
An original manuscript letter mostly in a secretarial hand, 3pp. (single folded
sheet, the signature and final lines in O’Connell’s own hand, dated 1st Sept.
1845, addressed to John A. O’Neill Esq. of William Park. Apparently an attempt
to make up a quarrel, O’Connell expresses his ‘affectionate gratitude’ to O’Neill
and says, ‘If there be one single word in any letter of mine that could have left a
painful sentiment in your mind, I beg to retract it and earnestly to intreat your
forgiveness.’
As a m/ss, w.a.f.
O’Connell died 15 May, 1847, aged 71.
€ 300 - 500