Letter from Arthur O’Shaughnessy

Letter from Arthur O’Shaughnessy to Miss Compton apologizing for not writing sooner and affirming that his time has been ‘wholly taken up visiting my friends the brotherhood of poets in Paris’.

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Item
Date
19 Dec. 1875
Reference
4
Extent and medium
3 pp; manuscript
Scope and content
Letter from Arthur O’Shaughnessy to Miss Compton apologizing for not writing sooner and affirming that his time has been ‘wholly taken up visiting my friends the brotherhood of poets in Paris’.
General note
For information on Arthur O’Shaughnessy (1841-1881) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_O%27Shaughnessy
Repository
Irish Capuchin Archives
Context
Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Autograph Letters and Historical Ephemera

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  • Rue Troutet A Paris
  • Paris, I have since my
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Hotel Duchespontes Rue Troutet A Paris 19th Dec. 75 Dear Miss Compton I have to write memory upon you for having remit as respectful of your last kind letter but I received it on the eve of Departure. I was much pleased to see the proofs of the song which I looked up & sent up at my advice Having been wholly taken up with my visiting my friends the brotherhood of poets in Paris, I have since my arrival not had a minute to write to you until the present in which I must humbly lung you to provide my minute visit delay looking forward to send the song on my return with kindest regards to Mrs Compton who I trust is now quite well I remain Yours faithfully Aston P. Shanghuang