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“ I hope you will find the same punctuality in my dealings that you have been
good enough to say you met with heretofore”. Added is a transcript of the
bank draft directing £25 to be paid from Going’s account with William
Alexander, Mary Abbey, Dublin.
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454 18 Aug 1789
Letter to Mrs. Ryan, Cradoxtown from Thomas [Going], Traviston, enclosing
a bank draft for £25, half a year’s interest due on a bond for £1000 entered
into by his father.
455 4 Jan 1805
Letter to Mary Anne Ryan from her sister in law Mary Nash, Ipswich, wishing
her a Happy New Year and describing her activities “many years have passed
since I’ve known so healthful a winter or so gay a Christmas”. Vividly
recounts the social whirl centered on the Royal East Middlesex Regiment
“the officers are so perfectly correct the least deviation from propriety
instantly taken notice of in the most decided manner”. Chats about family and
friends, mentioning, “Brown” who has been very ill “in the space of 2 or 3
hours he was bled, blistered & physuced”. Describes in detail a ball where
“we had four of the Ipswich first rate Belles, the uglyst finest naked vestals I
ever beheld in the extreme of the last fashion & laughabley affected”.
Contrasts the apparel of the “Ipswitch Misses” “long muslin frocks tied
exactly under naked bosoms, half the legs & pink stockings to be seen” with
the finery worn by her daughter Bess and others. Gossips about mutual friends
and relatives “Odel is a good boy, but his manners are too much of the
Rathkeal cut”, and inquires after others. Closes with a reference to her dower
claims against James Nash.
456 14 March 1805
Letter of condolence on the death of George Ryan from his sister Mary Nash,
Ipswich, to her sister in law Mary Anne Ryan, Rutland Row, Limerick. “My
heart says a thousand things to you & has thought of little else than yourself &
your children…I believe you will scare doubt my sense of the Extent of your
present tryal”. She urges Mary Anne to remain strong for the sake of her 6
children, and adding her approval of Mary Anne’s plan to move to Dublin.
Gives news of her own recent ill health and brief news of mutual friends
(Otters, Cotters, Browns, O’Kelly’s, Landaffs). Mentions she is waiting on
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