IRISH MANUSCRIPTS & EPHEMERA · CATALOGUE NO. 01 · ITEM 042
Victorian Dublin Before Joyce — A Financial Letter, 8 January 1853
Dublin · 8 January 1853 · Original manuscript financial letter
Catalogue details
Description
Original manuscript correspondence from the commercial premises of No. 9 Upper Ormond Quay, including references to financial arrangements. 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
- 8 January 1853
- Place
- No. 9 Upper Ormond Quay, Dublin
- Format
- Original manuscript financial 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.





