TC-JAC, 18 June. MS: NLS 513.8. Hitherto unpbd.

1. Dated 13 June, at the top of which TC asked “to return me this.” Duffy said: “If you leave home as you propose on Thursday the 21st I will be quite disengaged on your arrival and ready to go anywhere. … / If Larcom, Kane and the other men in Dublin whom I mentioned [in the letter of 1 June], interest you I wish you would take an introduction to some one of them from Mr. Twisleton, or other official persons— I know them all a little, but they are in the employment of Govert and my relation to the powers that be is not a friendly one. Your name in any case would I presume be sufficient, but the course I propose will practically convenience you.” Thomas Aiskew Larcom (1801–79; ODNB), ordnance surveyor of Ireland, 1828–46, when he also collected information on Irish history, languages, and antiquities; census commissioner, 1841; commissioner of public works, 1846, during the famine; headed commissions of inquiry into the Irish poor law system and the reform of the Dublin corp., 1849; deputy chairman of the board of works, 1850; undersec. for Ireland, 1853–68; knighted, 1860. Duffy wrote to TC, 1 June, that he was “the author of the map you are using, and a man who gets a vast quantity of work well and quietly done.” Sir Robert Kane (1809–90; ODNB), scientist; prof. of chemistry, 1831–45, Apothecaries' Hall, Dublin, and of natural philosophy to Royal Dublin Soc., 1834–47, F.R.S., 1849; pres. of Queen's College, Cork, 1845–73; director of Museum of Irish Industry, Dublin, 1846; knighted, 1846; author of books on chemistry and Irish industrial resources and other works. According to Duffy, 1 June, he had “made himself familiar with the resources of the country, and is to have charge of the education of the middle classes in the Provincial colleges.”

2. Alfred Power (1805–88), B.A., Cambridge, 1826; M.A., 1829; barrister, 1830; asst. poor law comm. in England, 1834–43, in Ireland, 1843; chief comm. of Irish poor laws, 1849, succeeding Twisleton in March. Twisleton wrote to TC the next day, 19 June: “Power will be required for the discussion of the Irish Poor Law Bill in the House of Commons on Thursday [21 June]. … But we propose to pay you a visit … on Friday. … I will talk over the subject of Irish ‘introductions,’ when we meet.”

3. Lord George A. Hill (1801–79), 5th son of 2d marquess of Downshire; army officer, 1820–30, when placed on half pay; M.P. for Carrickfergus, 1831–32; sheriff of Donegal, 1845. He received no legacy but was provided with enough capital to buy, from 1838, ca. 23,000 acres in the parish of Tullaghobegly W, barony of Kilmacrenan, stretching N along the coast from the river Gweedore, Donegal. Before 1838 there had been no resident landlord in Gweedore and no land agents, but he built a hotel at Gweedore and a model farm by the river Clady, 1842. He developed the community, built a grain store, grain-drying kiln, 1839, mill, 1845, quay, sawmill, and flaxmill. He was widely known as a Protestant landlord protective of his tenants, but the local people were, in fact, reluctant to accept his changes in agricultural practice, land use, and settlement. There are many stories about him, some claiming him as an evictor and others speaking of his kindness and knowledge of the Irish language. He was the author of Facts from Gweedore; with useful hints to Donegal Tourists, 2 pts. (Dublin, 1845).

4. Carlo Rusconi (1819–89), foreign minister in the Roman republic, had been sent to London to plead the republic's case to Lord Palmerston.

5. Frederick Lucas (1812–55; ODNB), ed. of the Tablet; identified himself with Irish nationalism; see TC to JF, 16 May 1840.

6. John Dunlop (1789–1868), b. Greenock; poet and temperance reformer living in London; see TC to JDU, 22 Jan. 1841.