[Clarendon, Viceroy Ireland; Irish famine] Substantial but Part only of significant Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Sydney Morgan, Irish Novelist concerning Irish Bill.

Substantial part of Letter, final three pages, bifolium, very good condition, final page laid in windowpane. Text: [missing a leaf] or a column & 1/2 to The Times 3 or 4 days before the Bill is introduced they wd insert them & the widest effect wd be produced at the right moment - Some previous commun[icatio]n with the Ed[ito]r will be necessary for if he refuses the [name of newspaper not deciphered] w[oul]d be the next best paper & the Daily News next to that but I am clear that a newspaper is the fittest vehicle - I hope for my complete [?] negotiation with Colburn [publisher Colburn's United Services Magazine, etc.] for every body w[oul]d be the better for [?] their acxquaintance with the O'Briens & the O'Flahertys & still more so with Florence Macarthy, tho I am not sure that even you [underlined] c[oul]d galvanize the extinct English taste for Irish tales & I must add that Irish Nature in no longer what you with equal [truth & force?] described it - 20 years of agitation & unceasing appeal to the worst passions have produced a melancholy change & melancholy change & the sulky politiical peasant of the present day bears no resemblance to the witty & joyous tho tattered boy of your time - Lady C[larendon] begs her kindest regards to you & I am always my dear Lady Morgan [...].Note: Perhaps related to the following: In June 1847, the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 31) was passed which embodied the principle, popular in Britain, that Irish property must support Irish poverty. The landed proprietors in Ireland were held in Britain to have created the conditions that led to the famine.