Descriptive List - University College Cork Library
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418 27 June 1789<br />
Draft letter from George Ryan, Toulouse to [ ] expressing his gratitude<br />
for the sum of 2400 livres received “ as thro it means our minds are entirely<br />
sett at ease for the present”. He refers to his wife’s pregnancy, “I hope to have<br />
the pleasure of announcing the safe delivery of a little name sake of yours or<br />
our dearest mothers”. Mentions his shock at the news of Richard Harrold’s<br />
“failure”, and confesses he is relieved to “find myself out of the way of all<br />
those troubles when it is not in my power to be of any relief”.<br />
419 9 Aug 1789<br />
Draft letter from George Ryan, Toulouse, to [ ] thanking the addressee<br />
for the news of Margaret’s safe delivery. His wife Mary is well and nursing<br />
their second child whom they plan to get “enoculated” in the Autumn. Adds “I<br />
hope you have been in no way uneasy about us from the dreadful accounts<br />
with which I suppose your news-papers are filled since the great & general<br />
revolution in this kingdom”. All the populace is armed and all are wearing<br />
“the cockade of liberty” but he has heard no reports of outrages outside of<br />
Paris. He compares Irish mobs unfavorably to those he witnessed in France,<br />
amongst whom drunkenness is uncommon “ I am pretty certain ther is more<br />
blood spilt at a Gingerbread Pattern in Ireland than there has been all over<br />
France (Paris excepted) since the commencement of this revolution”.<br />
420 18 Oct 1789<br />
421 [17--]<br />
Draft letter from George Ryan, Toulouse to [ ] discussing his<br />
financial situation. Thanks the recipient for the 1113 livres drawn on G.<br />
Roche, safely received. Informs him his children have been safely inoculated<br />
and are "happily over all danger of the small-pox & our minds quite relieved".<br />
Forwards bills to be met from the May rental, some of which "will scarce hold<br />
out till the middle of next month I earnestly beg you will assist us<br />
accordingly" He plans to be in Ireland next May and will meet with Mr.<br />
Comerford to settle affairs with him.<br />
Letter to George Ryan, Toulouse, from [ ] congratulating him on the<br />
birth of his son. Bemoans his forced stay in this “miserable little Blaggerdly<br />
town” but the grind of extracting revenue from his estates and dealings with<br />
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