| Description | Letter book of draft letters from the registrar of the orthopaedic hospital, addressed to various sources, including, workhouse unions across the country, individuals, businesses and aristocracy. The letters reference patient treatment, patient admissions and dischages, accounts, donations and gifts, alongside previous correspondence between the sender and the hospital, and happenings within the hospital.
Letters addressed to union workhouses predominatly include, Kells, Navan, Carlow, Wexford, Galway, Dundalk, Ennis and Thurles. Letters addressed to individual mainly focus on patients families, with some reference to professional individuals such as Richard Jackson Moss, regarding the Bazaar at Ballbridge in May 1898. Letters addressed to businesses are in the minority but one letter of interest to Guinness in October 1898, requests left over [coal or wood] chips for the hospitals fires and oat shavings for surgerical purposes. Finally letters addressed to aristocracy include, Lady Violet Ashtown, Countess Kilmorey, Lady Mauirce Fitzgerald, Lady Walsh and Florance Isabel Nicholson.
The front section of the letter book, contains draft letters between 1896-1905. The back of the book 1882-1885. |