Nano Nagle writing to Miss Fitzsimons

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Nano Nagle writing to Miss Fitzsimons

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Letter from Nano Nagle to Miss [Eleanor] Fitzsimons in which she speculates about her investments in Paris and expresses her disappointment at the low interest paid. Nagle complains that Mr. Waters, banker, would not tell her anything about the East India Company. She appears fretful and vexed; fretful that the second effort at making an Ursuline foundation in Cork would fail again, and vexed that the interest paid by the East India Company had fallen to one half of its former value. Nagle asserts that it was the general opinion that few foreigners would ever again put their money in the French funds. She requests Miss Fitzsimons to present her compliments to her former mistress, communicates her affection for her correspondent, and mentions the young ladies and Miss Smith.



Metadata:
title: Nano Nagle writing to Miss Fitzsimons
Type of resource: [{"@value"=>"dctypes:Text"}]
published: [{"@value"=>"Cork, Ireland"}]
created: 1770
Location of original: Presentation Sisters Congregational Archive, Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork.
Ownership/custodial history: This fragment was discovered in the Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork, in the 1980s. This letter was gifted to the Irish Presentations Sisters on the occasion of the tercentenary of the birth of Nano Nagle.
Credits: Images courtesy of Presentation Sisters Congregational Archive, Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork, and Ursuline Convent, Blackrock, Cork.
Date details: The date of the letter is missing, the inferred date is 1770.
Keywords: Nano Nagle, Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Ursuline Sisters, County Cork, Cork city, Presentation Sisters, Sisters of Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, nuns, education in Ireland, Catholicism, Penal Laws.
permalink: doi:10.7925/drs1.ucdlib_153349
topic-LCSH: [{"@value"=>"Education"}, {"@value"=>"Nuns"}, {"@value"=>"Dissenters, Religious"}, {"@value"=>"Legal status, laws, etc."}]
genre: letter
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