Ireland.- Autograph Letter unsigned to William Aldam, 4pp. & address panel, folio, Killarney, 7th July 1839, giving a view of Ireland a few years before the Great Famine, "... we have passed continuous moor of peat land. The houses are scattered everywhere over the country instead of being collected in villages as with us - and are miserable hovels of turf, mud, or stones - pieces of the black bog land are here and there cultivated and seem to grow good potatoes - The people, the women & children universally, are without shoes or stockings, and in every respect miserably ill clad... I don't think O Connell far from wrong in calling them the 'finest peasantry' in the world...", folds, slightly browned. ⁂ William Aldam (1813-90), Liberal Party politician and MP for the Yorkshire constituency of Leeds between 1841 and 1847.
Ireland.- Autograph Letter unsigned to William Aldam, 4pp. & address panel, folio, Killarney, 7th July 1839, giving a view of Ireland a few years before the Great Famine, "... we have passed continuous moor of peat land. The houses are scattered everywhere over the country instead of being collected in villages as with us - and are miserable hovels of turf, mud, or stones - pieces of the black bog land are here and there cultivated and seem to grow good potatoes - The people, the women & children universally, are without shoes or stockings, and in every respect miserably ill clad... I don't think O Connell far from wrong in calling them the 'finest peasantry' in the world...", folds, slightly browned. ⁂ William Aldam (1813-90), Liberal Party politician and MP for the Yorkshire constituency of Leeds between 1841 and 1847.
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