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Telephone Nos Dublin 1207
Athy 8 William P.Triston,
Solicitor
and
Duke Street,
Athy.
1, Dame Street Dublin 18th Sept. 1916 Dear Mr Allen, I have been in communication
with Messrs Lafayette
Ltd. on behalf of Mrs Muriel MacDonagh, widow of the late Mr Thomas
MacDonagh with reference to the Publication of her husbands Photograph
by their Publication Department. After some correspondence they agreed
to pay £5 portion of the fees they received up to the present time. I am requested
by Mrs MacDonagh to send you the amount
she received from Messrs Lafayette as she wishes it to be given to the
National Aid Fund. If I receive any further sums from Messrs Lafayette
on the same account I will forward it to you. Yours faithfully
Fred. J. Allen Esq. Secy. Electric Lighting Committee City Hall Dublin.
Letter from William P. Triston, a solicitor from Dublin, to Fred J. Allan (1861-1937).
Triston writes that the photographic company Lafayette had agreed to pay £5 from the
fees they had received for a photograph of Thomas MacDonagh (1878–1916), one of the
executed leaders of the Rising. He also notes that Muriel MacDonagh, MacDonagh's widow,
wishes the money to be donated to the Irish National Aid Association.Allan was an
IRB activist and committee member of the Irish National Aid Association, which was
founded to raise funds for the dependents of those who had fought during the Easter
Rising and were either killed, imprisoned or lost their jobs.