Irish Journalist & Prime Minister of Victoria,
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Irish Journalist & Prime Minister of Victoria, Australia.- Duffy (Sir Charles Gavan, journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Victoria, Australia, 1816-1903) 2 Letters signed to Rev. George Edwards Casey, in the hand of his daughter Susan Gavan Duffy, 4pp., 8vo, Villa Guillory, Nice & n.p., [c. 1895], applauding his interest in Gaelic, "I am glad... you have found so pleasant a pursuit as the study of Gaelic. There is an Irish Literary Society in London, non political and non sectarian meeting at Adelphi Terrace Strand, who have an Irish class and a competent professor to teach the language. If you decide to join the Hon Secretary is Mr Alfred Perceval Graves [poet and educationist, 1846-1931; father of Robert Graves]"; and another, a fragment of a letter by Susan Gavan Duffy; and a small quantity of other letters to Casey, including: Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, Walter Besant, Anesaki Masaharu, Stanhope Forbes, Edward Malet, Vladimir Chertkov (editor of the works of Tolstoy), Walter Congreve VC, Eliza Lynn Linton (first female salaried journalist in Britain) etc., folds, v.s., v.d. (c. 15 pieces).
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