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[1846]-[02]-[ND]
Hester Catherine Sligo
1800-1877
[Unknown]
crops, potatoes, blight, famine
Hester Catherine de Burgh Browne, second Marchioness of Sligo, 1800-1878, George Hildebrand
Letter 53 transcript
Letters
Lady Sligo Collection
Monday [“Feb. 1846? No earlier? 1845(crossed out) 1846” pencil note by unknown person]Hildebrand Get some person at Westport who knows how to Cut out to make for me 10 shifts exactly the same as the pattern in every respect --- They are to be made of fine long cloth --- not linen --- It is not fair to make the Carrier pay for the blankets & I should not wish it to be done, but it is right to let him know their loss is found out. He may only be to blame as far as not watching his things well, as they may have been stolen from him. I am truly sorry to hear that the accounts of the decay of the potatoes are worse & worse every day from all parts of Ireland --- I hope the neighbourhood of Westport continues better than other places, but I fear the Lord Altamont’s estates at Lahinch & near Newport will suffer much. I think you & others will see (on reflection) that I am right in not wishing Lord John to be in Parliament even if he can be put in for nothing --- it would be an interruption to him in his profession, & I think he is much too young for such a thing --- for the idle life of a Member of Parliament. --- I am told that both Mr. Geoffrey Browne & Mr. George Moore are thinking of Standing, but I know nothing except Dublin gossip. Do you know to whom Lord Altamont has desired his interest to be given? for I have not heard. Yours Catherine Sligo
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