W.T. COSGRAVE - LETTER - AUTOGRAPH - 1928 - IRISH POLITICIAN - DOHENY

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W.T. COSGRAVE
Typed letter, 1 page, 7 1/4" x 9 1/4", December 17, 1928,on his blind stamped letterhead,
ROINN AN UACTARAIN-ASAID MUIRBTEAN UAG - BAILETA CLIAT - DUBLIN
with four lines in holograph
to Mrs. P.A. O'Farrell, Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, B.C. , Canada
Signed: "Liam T. Mac Cosgair" (his Irish name)
Important letter regarding the Doheny family erecting a copy of
Kilkenny Castle in California
together with a contemporary copy of Lord Ossory's
December 14, 1928 letter to Cosgrave
Provenance: Carrie Estelle Doheny Auction, Sale, Christies, 1988
original certificate included
Condition: old folds, paper clip indents
W.T. Cosgrave, William Thomas Cosgrave, (Irish name: Liam Tomas Mac Cosgair) was a
radical Irish politician. He was sentenced to death after the Easter Uprising but had his
sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. He was eventually released after the
amnesty of 1919. Cosgrave succeeded Michael Collins as Chairman of the Provisional
Government of the Irish Free State from August to December 1922. He served as the first
President of the Executive Council (prime minister) of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1933.
Born: 1880, Dublin, Ireland; died: 1965, Dublin, Ireland.
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