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1923 (April 4 & 25) Letters from Edith Sommerville to Sir Horace Plunkett.
Estimate:
€200 - €300
Sold
€850
Live Auction
The Eclectic Collector
Description
Description: A four-page letter April 4, from Drishane House, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, recounts the visit to the house by two heavily armed 'Republicans' to collect 'Dog-Tax' under threat of shooting the dogs; and her first sighting of 'Civic Guardsmen', who, she writes, have been dubbed the 'Blue Look-Out' by Cork people; together with a four-page letter, April 25, from Drishane House, recounting the (Protestant) Dean of Ross' relationship with a wanted Republican 'Spud' Murphy and the refusal of (Catholic) Bishop (Denis) Kelly (Diocese of Cork and Ross) to pray in his Cathedral for the soul of Michael Collins. (2)
Provenance
Holroyd Smith family;Catherine Fleming;thence by descent to the present owner.