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XLIX: Letters of mourning from Katharine O’Shea Parnell to Delia Tudor Stewart Parnell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

John D. Fair
John D. Fair*
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Department of History and Geography, Georgia College and State University
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 122 , November 1998 , pp. 241 - 246
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References

1 The two most revealing sources on the circumstances surrounding Parnell’s death are Katharine O’Shea (Mrs Charles Stewart Parnell), Charles Stewart Parnell: his love story and political life (2 vols, London, 1914), ii, 263-76Google Scholar, and Lyons, J. B., ‘Charles Stewart Parnell and his doctors’ in McCartney, Donal (ed.), Parnell: the politics of power (Dublin, 1991), pp 170-82Google Scholar.

2 Katharine Parnell to Delia Parnell, n.d. and 11 December 1891 (Alabama Department of Archives and History ( A.D. A.H.), Parnell surname file 436).

3 See Foster, R.F., Charles Stewart Parnell: the man and his family (Hassocks, 1976)Google Scholar, and Côté, Jane McL., Fanny and Anna Parnell: Ireland’s patriot sisters (London, 1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Death certificate of Margaretta Parnell Stevens, 16 July 1947 (New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Trenton, New Jersey).

5 Foster, Parnell, p. 88.

6 Côté, Fanny and Anna Parnell, pp 22–3,271.

7 Mary F. Gordon Wilgus, ‘Bordentown’, original typescript of an abridged article entitled ‘Historical Bordentown’ which appeared in the Mount Holly Herald, 27 May 1932 (Burlington County Library, Bordentown, Bordentown History file).

8 Will of Margaretta Stewart Stevens, 16 July 1947 (Superior Court of New Jersey, Trenton).

9 See John Parnell, Howard, Charles Stewart Parnell: a memoir (London, 1916)Google Scholar for information on the Alabama experiences of the Parnell brothers.

10 Auburn University Archives, Auburn, Alabama, Rutland papers, folder 24.

11 Prather to ———, 21 June 1937 (A.D.A.H., Parnell surname file 436).

12 Prather to Owen, 7 July 1937 (ibid.).

13 In 1940 Prather joined the United States army for twenty-three years, then spent another eighteen in the army civil service. Upon retirement he became interested in the Parnells again, but he expressed disappointment to Roy Foster that A.D.A.H. ‘evidently had done nothing regarding the Parnell episode in Alabama history’ (Prather to Foster, 12 July 1985 (Prather papers, 4802 14th Street North, Arlington, Virginia)).

14 In reference to Katharine’s two-volume memoir of her husband, Marlow, Joyce comments that the ‘account of her husband’s death has a poignancy and simplicity of style which is notably lacking from her earlier chapters’ (The uncrowned queen of Ireland: the life of ‘Kitty’ O’Shea (London, 1975), p. 283 Google Scholar).

15 O’Shea, Parnell, ii, 275.

16 Freeman’s Journal, 9 Oct. 1891.

17 Lyons, F.S.L., The fall of Parnell, 1890–91 (London, 1960), p. 306 Google Scholar.

page no 245 note 1 Emily Dickinson, Parnell’s sister.

page no 246 note 2 Henry Campbell, Parnell’s secretary.