Letter to Patrick Pearse from Anna Frances Levins
Letter to Patrick Pearse from Anna Frances Levins, New York, regarding arranging a meeting of Pearse with the American Daughters of Ireland at the Waldorf-Astoria.
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- Date
- 1914
- Reference
- 29
- Extent and medium
- 4 pp; Manuscript and printed
- Scope and content
- Letter to Patrick Pearse from Anna Frances Levins, New York, regarding arranging a meeting of Pearse with the American Daughters of Ireland at the Waldorf-Astoria.
- General note
- For biographical information on Anna Frances Levins (1876-1941) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Frances_Levins
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- 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. > Correspondence and Papers of the Pearse Family > Papers of Patrick Pearse > Letters to Patrick Pearse
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- Lecture to my little society
- Tho' born in New York Miss Levins is really Irish. She visits the land of her forefathers every summer with her camera, and her studio to-day shows the result of her travels throug…
- Thro' her pictures Miss Levins hopes to arouse a new interest and everything Irish. The Literature, Music, Arts and Industries are dear to her heart and hold the place of honor in…
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New York, Tuesday - Dear Mr. Pearse:- Then you return I have arrange to have you Lecture to my little society at the Waldorf-Astoria. Not likely it will be sometime in November as Jonay spend a month in Newformidland after resting Ireland. Faithfully yours, Anna Frances ANNA FRANCES LEVINS with a group of children in front of a Thatched Schoolhouse still in use in Newtown, Drogheda, Co. Louth, where her grandfather, Patrick Levins taught Irish, English, Latin and Greek in 1793 Tho' born in New York Miss Levins is really Irish. She visits the land of her forefathers every summer with her camera, and her studio to-day shows the result of her travels through the Little Green Isle. The beauty, poetry, pathos and happy good nature of her race are all incarnate in her Scenes and Portraits. Every Irish-American home should have a photograph or water colored painting of this Island of Enchantment. Where else do the fairies live! No where, needed, for there is no other spot on earth beautiful enough but Erin— "that has no peer in all the sea For verdure, vale or river, flower or leaf." Thro' her pictures Miss Levins hopes to arouse a new interest and everything Irish. The Literature, Music, Arts and Industries are dear to her heart and hold the place of honor in her Reception Room at 5 East 35th Street. As in the ancient times when all Europe came to Ireland for its learning, so to-day the eyes of the whole civilized world are turned towards this loved "Isle of Saint and Scholar" upon which the Light of Home Rule is soon, please God, to shine. The prices of the pictures range from two to fifty dollars each. One can spend as much or as little as one chooses, Miss Levins' idea being to bring the cost within the reach of all and thereby encourage a love for that "Motherland forever dear— Yea, dearer for the darkness of her fate." The Studio is open to visitors from nine until five. Christmas orders are now being filled. Catalogue on application. Telephone, 4339 Murray Hill.