Descriptive List - University College Cork Library
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579 25 August 1836<br />
Letter to George Ryan from his sister, Eliza Bennet, informing him she has<br />
requested Miss Lenigan to make the necessary arrangements to have [his]<br />
children admitted to the convent when he next travels to Dublin. Complains<br />
about the laziness of her brother and sister in not writing to her and discusses<br />
recent news. Mentions Henry Barry’s marriage, commenting she heard his<br />
wife was everything that was to be wished, but that her friends were against<br />
the match “on account of the difference of religion”. She herself has been<br />
unable to take medicinal baths recommended to her to cure spots which have<br />
broken out over her body, but she hopes to try them soon “for I am getting<br />
every day weaker & weaker though I have no actual weakness”.<br />
580 7 Oct 1836<br />
Letter to George Ryan from his cousin Eliza (Bess) Otter, Le Mans, giving<br />
general news. She has heard from their Aunt, Margaret Therry, that he is not<br />
now coming to France and expresses her disappointment. Their Aunt, she<br />
feels, has “a constant air of unhappiness hanging over her”. She finds Tours<br />
dull “The English here now, there are no great acquisitions in a social point of<br />
view”. Also gives news of the Bouviere family now in Canada. Closes<br />
requesting George when next in Dublin to look up her Marriage Settlement in<br />
the Registry of Deeds and note if her daughters are heir to each other in case<br />
one dies unmarried.<br />
581 20-22 Oct 1835<br />
Letter to George Ryan, Inch House from Maria, Lady Brown, Gresham Hotel,<br />
Dublin requesting him to forward to her the rough draft of [David] Power’s<br />
will found in “my poor lamented Philips Papers”. Closes with general news of<br />
family and acquaintances and inquires after the health of his mother, her Aunt.<br />
Features, a draft reply explaining that after “mature deliberation” he is<br />
declining to send her the document. Adds his mother’s health is improving<br />
daily.<br />
582 24 Oct 1836<br />
Letter to John D. Ryan, Cheltenham, from Stephen Grehan, Dublin, referring<br />
to letters enclosed (see 606 ff), and requesting Ryan’s opinion before he<br />
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