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a return’d coach: she does not mention wan word
a bout what you wrote to Miss Belue, nor what I
wrote myself to her, only that she had receiv’d all
the letters I wrote to her, as she was not there near
as soon, as I expect’d she got a good many from me,
it was the day after her daughters arriv’d that I heard

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To
Mrs. Mullaly in
Dublin

Cork 1778
Nano Nagle

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from her, and she tells me they all din’d at sir Patrick,
where there was a great dale of company and it was there
she wrote, to me by which I imagine the hurry she
was in, and not having an oppertunity to speak a bout
your affear, prevent’d her from saying any thing of it
to me; in my answer I beg’d she wou’d use all her influence
with that lady which I am sure she will. I hope in her
next I shall some account of what will be done. A Dieu.

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Cork 8ber 31 yr 1778
GHAD/FD/4
1778

October or November 1778
this in Dr Hutch's Life of
Nano Nagle page 111

Dear Madam

I could not slip this opportunity, without
assuring my Dr Mrs Mullaly; the pleasure it gave
me to hear she arriv’d safe, and to assure her
the trouble it gave me that I could, not have
more of her company whilst here which I am
every day more sensible of. the advantage I should
have reap’d from it, the hurry I was in at that time
made me neither think of many things, which I should
have being glad to have had your opinion [on]
my thoughts were so much taken up, about my
nieces, preparing for their voyage, which thank God was a
lucky wan, as they had a passage of thirty hours
and if I did not send them by that ship, they would not
have gone this winter, as known of the Bristol traders