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               <p>Letter from Joseph Francis O'Carroll (1856-1942) to Thomas Percy Kirkpatrick expressing his misgivings about his capabilities to preform as President of the College should Dr Bewley choose to defer his term.From 1910 until 1954 Thomas Kirkpatrick (1869-1954) served as the registrar for the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He also served as the general secretary of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. He took a particular interest in what were then termed venereal diseases; to encourage his patients (many of whom were prostitutes) to attend, he held a clinic for women at a discreet early morning hour to facilitate anonymity.</p>
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                43, MERRION SQUARE,  DUBLIN.    1st Oct. 1916   My dear Registrar,   I hoped very sincerely <lb/>that D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Bewley would take the Residency, to <lb/>which the votes of the College would have elected <lb/>him unanimously as against any other single <lb/>Fellow of the College. If however he desires to <lb/>defer his term of office, I feel that it is my <lb/>duty to the College, as it is a very great homour <lb/>to myself, to allow my name to go forward <lb/>as a candidate at the final election. But I <lb/>am so little confident of my ability to fill the <lb/>high position of President according to the Standards <lb/>set by the Presidents to whom I have known that <lb/>I should not feel at all displeased if some <lb/>more worthy candidate would be found in the <lb/>meantime. <seg type="closer"> Yours sincerely  Joseph O' Carroll   T. Percy Kirkpatrick Esq  MD. F.R.C.P.I.  Registrar, R.C.P.  </seg> 
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