Aet. 33, to Edmund Dwyer Gray, editor of the Freeman’s Journal, a nationalist daily newspaper in Dublin. George Moore was conducting ethnographic research for his novel A Drama in Muslin. The notorious fall of Khartoum occurred a few weeks before this letter was written. Col. Sir Gerald Dease (1831-1903) was the Lord Lieutenant’s Chamberlain (1882—1885). Arthur James Francis, 11th Earl of Fingall (1859-1929) was the State Steward of Ireland, 1882-1885.
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