| Title: | Hon. Caroline Norton, London, to W.H. Malcolm, Holywood. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1981 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Norton, Caroline/37 |
| Year | 1872 |
| Sender | Norton, Caroline |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | aristocrat? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | London, England |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Malcolm, W.H. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends? |
| Source | D 1071F/E2/10: From the Dufferin & Ava Papers Presented by the Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9708190 |
| Date | 06/06/1872 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 29:08:97. |
| Word Count | 372 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | From THE HON. MRS. NORTON TO W.H. MALCOLM ESQ. Holywood, County Down. 3 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, London, June 6th, 1872. Dear Sir, I write to express my very sincere regret that it will be impossible for me to be in Belfast on the 11th instant. on account of settled engagements here, of long standing. To no one could the occasion be more interesting than to myself, and to no one could the conviction be more strong or satisfactory that the "Welcome and Farewell" your Committee propose to offer thus publicly to my nephew Lord Dufferin, - is deserved - and will be remembered by him, as one more link of attachment to the country whose welfare and increasing prosperity have always been to him a chief object of solicitude. In that "Wellcome (sic) and Farewell", I am sure all parties will unite, - whatever may be their shades of difference in political opinion; for he has never narrowed his views of Ireland's interest to the dull wooden boundaries of this section or that section of men: nor considered "the service of his country" to mean the service of only one particular group of his countrymen, instead of earnest regard for all. The words of your own national poet Tom Moore (not altogether unfit for application on the festive occasion to which you have invited so many guests) contain much just and serious feeling, though clothed in sportive language. I quote them from memory, as I heard Moore sing them at the country seat of Bowood, belonging to my venerated friend the Marquis of Lansdowne, - but I think I quote correctly, - and with them, and with thanks for your remembrance of me at the time of Ireland's compliment to the future Governor of Canada, I conclude my letter, and beg you to believe me, dear Sir, Yours truly obliged, Caroline Norton. Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, - if our creeds agree? Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried If he kneels not before the same altar as me? Your glass may be purple, and mine may be blue, But, while they are filled from the same bright bowl, The fool who would quarrel for difference of hue, Deserves not the comfort they shed over the soul. From Tom Moore's Irish Melodies. |
