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(Confidential) The Under Secretary, Dublin Castle. Sir, As the Editor of the
Leader has failed to insert my
letter, according to my promise made to that gentleman
I beg leave to forward this copy to you for such action
as you may think desirable in the matter. Since the Editor of the Leader has not
returned my M.S.
will you be so good as to send this back at your Convenience
after you have had it typed, should you think it necessary.
It seems to me —- and I speak with some experience — that
the Editor of the Leader is at once cunning, truculent
and cowardly. and in speaking thus I am Sir
your most obedient servant, M. Flanagan. 5 St John's Gardens, Kilmainham 1st June 1916.
Letter from Michael Flanagan to the under-secretary for Ireland, Sir Robert Chalmers
(1858-1938).The letter concerns a letter that Flanagan had sent to the editor of the
Leader newspaper. Flanagan appears aggrieved that the letter was not published, going
on to state that the editor is both cunning and cowardly. Sir Robert Chalmers was
sent to Ireland as replacement under secretary for Sir Matthew Nathan, who had resigned
along with Augustine Birrell, his chief secretary, following the outbreak of the Easter
Rising in 1916.