[Letter from Whitley Stokes (15 Grenville Place, S. W.) to an unidentified recipient, acknowledging a gift of 'your Three Poems' and advancing comments. Hopes Father Hogan has recovered from the accident.]

UCD L 28

15. Grenville Place, S.W.

19 Octr 95

Dear Sir

I am much obliged by your gift of your Three Poems, which I have read carefully.

Assuming that you, like myself, like honest criticism, I venture to submit the following margination:

A.3. read [fergaibh fer] 'with men's angers'? [confoefet] 'they will sleep together'

A.13. is not [boirg?] nom [sg]?

A.16. read [frisin] (the s belonging to the article, not to the prep. n)

A.27. ĕn 'water' is the word here - not én 'bird' .\. tears "water with strong cries over the eyes of noble hosts". The [g lo? ator] seems quite right

B.3. fodbrond for odbrond dat. of odbrann 'ankle' not 'heel' (sál)

B.14. is not Abhan a place-name?

B.16. [athnarcfid] [will] rebind?

imprat, sg. 3 B. 23, read Bad orbba 24. is not laiches 'heroine'? C. 30 for criss, not foi criss C. 41. triar ocrig c a triad of warrior-kings' or young kings (cf . órthigern) C. 46 The ins. har [symbol], i.e., hat. gream (Dr. indá), not [symbol] fn. ar p. 558 cicher is not a deponent if, as you say, it comes from cerdain In A 29 I suggest arco fuin dom rig - ferr máin ná cech máin "I entreat my end from my King (i.e. God) - [symbol] a treasure better than any treasure?

As to arco fuin see Cormac. I hope Father Hogan has

[page break] recovered from his serious accident, & if so he will send in his promised notes on Ágorman's martyrology

[stamped] UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LIBRARY DUBLIN

Faithfully yrs Whitley Stokes