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Manuscripts
Michael Davitt letters to an unknown woman
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- Description
- These ten candid letters were written to a female correspondent whose name was systematically erased or obliterated from each, at her request. Written during the 1880s from Ireland, England (including Richmond Prison), and abroad, they concern Irish politics, journalism, his opinion of various public figures, his involvement with the Commission on Technical Education, and Richard Pigott's forged Parnell letters.
- Production date
- 1883-1889.
- Call number
- mssHM 60668-60677
- Provenance
- Probably acquired in the purchase of manuscripts from the collection of William K. (William Keeney) Bixby, 1918.
