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Letter from Thomas Moore to [Mr. Power] discussing [an illustration to
accompany a song] “the moment too he has chosen excuses the triumphant air
of Erin”. Dictates the words to go under the illustration “ The [ ] History
write/With a pencil of light/That all the volume her [ ] name illumed”. He has
decided to go up to Town to hurry the printing amongst other tasks. He may
stay a month “tho it may likewise happen that the object which takes me may
let me off in a few days”, but is resolved not to mix with company that will
cause him expense. Adds he finds it amusing to think of Byron “becoming a
‘sweet singer of Israel’- but you will find but little of ‘The Poetry’ will be
actually his.
753 27 Dec 1818
Copy of the Settlement between David O’Neill Power and his wife Elizabeth
(née Nash), drawn up after their eleopment of 1807. £1,200 is settled annually
on Elizabeth to be drawn from the Power estate.
754 Dec 1818
Will of Elizabeth Power (née Nash), wife of David O’Neil Power. Appoints as
Executors her husband and brother in law John Otter.
756 1849 –1900
File Estate of my Grandfather Richard Lalor Power kept by “RR 9.4.30”..
Contains draft of an application for and Letters of Administration for Lalor
Power’s estate “a sum of £50 now to his credit in the Court of Bankruptcy”;
Correspondence with Roche & Sons, Solicitor, Dublin, relating to a claim on
the estate by the Chichester family; Lalor Power’s Certificate of Marriage to
Sara Gordon, May 1849, signed by the Vicar of San Salvador.
757 Nov 1850 – May 1851
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Agents accounts kept [for] Captain Power showing income from Rental of
lands at Longorchard, Deravilla, Castletown, Ballycapple, Noelstown,
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