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Nano Nagle writing to Miss Fitzsimons

Abstract: Letter from Nano Nagle to Miss [Eleanor] Fitzsimons in which she speculates about her investments in Paris and expresses her disappointment at the low interest paid. Nagle complains that Mr. Waters, banker, would not tell her anything about the East India Company. She appears fretful and vexed; fretful that the second effort at making an Ursuline foundation in Cork would fail again, and vexed that the interest paid by the East India Company had fallen to one half of its former value. Nagle asserts that it was the general opinion that few foreigners would ever again put their money in the French funds. She requests Miss Fitzsimons to present her compliments to her former mistress, communicates her affection for her correspondent, and mentions the young ladies and Miss Smith.

In collection  The Collected Letters of Nano Nagle

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Origin information
Cork, Ireland : Nano Nagle
Date created:
Type of Resource
text
Physical description
1 leaf
17 x 26 cm
Physical description: Fragment of the original letter.
Location of original
Presentation Sisters Congregational Archive, Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork.
Ownership/custodial history
This fragment was discovered in the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork, in the 1980s. This letter was gifted to the Irish Presentations Sisters on the occasion of the tercentenary of the birth of Nano Nagle.
Credits
Images courtesy of Presentation Sisters Congregational Archive, Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork, and Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork.
Date details
The date of the letter is missing, the inferred date is 1770.
Keywords
Nano Nagle, Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ursuline Sisters, County Cork, Cork city, Presentation Sisters, Sisters of Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, nuns, education in Ireland, Catholicism, Penal Laws.
Languages
English  
Genre
Letter
Subject
Education--Ireland   linked data (lcsh)
Catholic Church
Nagle, Nano, 1718-1784 --Correspondence
Ursulines
Cork (Ireland : County)
Nuns--Ireland
Cork (Ireland)
Dissenters, Religious--Legal status, laws, etc.   linked data (lcsh)
Moylan, Francis, 1735-1815
Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Location
https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_153349
Location
Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary . IE PBVM NN/1/1/2
Suggested credit
"Nano Nagle writing to Miss Fitzsimons," held by Union of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. © Public domain. Digital content by CultureArk, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:153349>
Record source
Descriptions created by staff of UCD Library, University College Dublin based on information provided by the Nano Nagle digital humanities project. — Metadata creation date: 2017-09-27

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