IRISH MANUSCRIPTS & EPHEMERA · CATALOGUE NO. 01 · ITEM 041
Victorian Dublin Before Joyce — Commercial Correspondence, 10 January 1853
Dublin · 10 January 1853 · Original manuscript commercial letter
Catalogue details
Description
An original letter on stationery of No. 9 Upper Ormond Quay, written in January 1853. The text concerns receipts and business matters. The letter is written on printed stationery bearing the address 9 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin, associated in contemporary directory records with the auctioneering business of Littledale.
- Dimensions
- Measurements gladly provided on request
- Date
- 10 January 1853
- Place
- No. 9 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin
- Format
- Original manuscript commercial letter
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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Historical context & sources
An address in Dublin's literary topography
No. 9 Upper Ormond Quay was later incorporated into the Ormond Hotel. The hotel subsequently became associated with the Sirens episode of James Joyce's Ulysses. The connection is strictly to the later history of the location: the letter was written decades earlier and has no documented personal association with Joyce.
