[Letter from John B. Murphy, (Clonmel) to John D'Alton (47 Summerhill, Dublin), concerning a meeting with Mr. Henry and his son, solicitor for the Cashel Town Commissioners, in relation to a proposed memoir of Cashel.]

Abroad Aug 24 1846

My dear Sir,

Having been in Cashel yesterday (for the first time since I last saw you) I solicited on Mr W. Henry, an old and respectable inhabitant of that town, and one of the most influential of it's Town Commissioners, and having mentioned to him that you have been retained

by the Great Southern [&c?] Railway Company to write a memoir of their time, I directed his attention to the utility of having you retained by the Town Commissioners. of Cashel to draw up a special memoir of that City whi embracing its local History ancient & modern and the legal and antiquarian history of the late Municipal Corporation

Corporation of the City and of the Corporate property. Mr Henry and his son (who is Solr. to the Commissioners & very fond of the antiquarian line) acquiesce in the utility which such a memoir would be to the town, and in the [propriety?] of your being retained by the Commissioners to prepare it. It appears however that

much dissention prevail at present amongst of the latter body, and that the validity of an election of [word recently is crossed out] Commissioners recently holden is disputed; in Consquence of which the body is in a disorginized state and the full number of Commissioners not yet sworn into office. Under these circumstances the Messrs. Heney apprehend 4 difficulty

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difficulty in inducing the Board to come to any arrangement with you for the present, but they at the same time think that the submission now of you to the Board of Commissioners of a proposal, as suggested already by me to you (setting forth what you would undertake to do, and your terms etc) would facilitate and expedite [the scrap out]

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an arrangement between you and the Board, should such be at all practicable.

I agree with the [Messrs?] Henry in this. Such a proposal cannot do harm, in any event.

With kind remembrance to Mrs. D'Alton Miss D'Alton and all your circle believe me dear sir Very truly yours John B. Murphy

John D'Alton Esqr