Descriptive List - University College Cork Library

613 19 August 1874
Cheerful letter from Lily Ryan, Greenore Hotel, to her mother, describing
their arrival there and plans to go by steamer to Warren Point. Adds she is
enjoying herself “ I am perfectly happy & ever so well taken care of by
George”.
614 [ ] August 1874
Letter from Lily Ryan, Annesley Arms Hotel, Newcastle, describing her
recent travels including a drive in an open motorcar. She and George are
pleased with the hotel and environs “ I am most agreeably surprised with
Newcastle & its surroundings”. They had intended departing for Belfast “but
find ourselves compelled to remain here another night owing to the scientific
congregation at present assembled there occupying every available corner”.
She was amused “at chapel” by a sermon which was a treatise on the history
of Ulster “from which both of us derived a great deal of new & useful secular
knowledge”. She also founds strange the method of hearing confession with
the door open. They hope to leave soon for Scotland to visit Oban, Inverness
and Edinburgh.
615 27 August 1874
616 [1874]
Letter from Lily Ryan, Caledonian Hotel, Oban, to her mother detailing her
and Georges’ progress from the North of Ireland to Greenock, and on to Oban
via a canal journey. Comically describes fellow guests at the hotel.
Letter from Lily Ryan, Inch, to her mother enclosing half a pound note. She
plans to forward the second half once she hears the first has arrived safely.
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