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- GLC#
- GLC04192.05-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 August 1852
- Author/Creator
- Moore, John, 1826-1907
- Title
- To Mary
- Place Written
- Cork, Ireland
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 23.2 cm, Width: 18.9 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Excerpt:
2 August 1852: "The county was generally beautiful; many parts of it exceedingly so - naturally fertile but many parts poorly cultivated and every part filled with wretchedness, starvation and beggary - owing in part to an unjust and tyrannical system of government, systematically pursued for the last hundred years, but perhaps mainly to the miserable system of letting lands, by which the tenant can be turned out at any moment, without a care of remuneration for any improvements he may have made on the Land. Another reason of the wretched condition of many of them is their own laziness and want of energy."
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