| Description | Bound volume of manuscript copy letters of outgoing correspondence issued by the hospital registrar. Volume includes index of letter recipients, summary address and corresponding letter page number. Letters relate to all aspects of running the hospital including letters to patients regarding successful admission or refusal to the hospital, the election of life governors, letters to tradesmen and suppliers regarding the awarding of contracts or quality of goods, letters to relevant authorities regarding utilities and or maintenance of public areas surrounding the hospital, letters of thanks for bequests and donations/and the management and transfer of same, letters regarding rental properties owned by the hospital. Recipients include solicitors, tradesmen, 'Chief Secretary's Office', 'Superintendent Donnybrook Police Station', religious authorities, other hospitals. Volume contains typescript letters, 13 August 1908 from William Fry, chairman, managing committee, Wilton House, Merrion Road to Lady Ishbel, Countess of Aberdeen, Viceregal Lodge, Dublin (and wife of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John Campbell Gordon) regarding her request to the managing committee to build a wing for patients with tuberculosis. |