Letter from Jasper Travers Wolfe to Sir Robert Chalmers, 15 May 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Jasper Travers Wolfe

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This letter was written by Jasper Travers Wolfe (1872-1952), a solicitor from Cork. The letter was addressed to Sir Robert Chalmers (1858–1938), under-secretary for Ireland. Chalmers was sent to Ireland as under-secretary, replacing Sir Matthew Nathan who had resigned along with Augustine Birrell, his chief secretary following the Easter Rising in 1916. In the letter Wolfe is applying for is applying for the vacant crown solicitor of Cork position. The position had been left vacant due to the promotion of Dr Henry Arthur Wynne (1867-1943) to chief crown solicitor for Ireland. Wolfe states that he has been a solicitor since 1893 and has practised in the West Riding of County Cork since.

National Archives of Ireland Chief Secretary's Office Registered Papers, CSO RP/1916/8264/1 https://letters1916.ie/item/2054 English Jasper Travers Wolfe 1916-05-15 Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland. Robert Chalmers Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Male 1952 Industry and Public Administration Industry and Public Administration

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 Offices—Skibbereen, Co.Cork. 15th day of May 1916. Sir, I beg to apply for the Office of Crown Solicitor for the City of Cork and West Riding vacated by appointment of the Chief Crown Solicitor. I was admitted a Solicitor in 1893, obtaining at my final examination the Incorporated Law Society's Gold Medal (first place), and subsequently the Findlater Scholarship. Since then I have practiced in the West Riding of the the County of Cork, and enquiry will show that I have a larger experience of criminal and general Court advocacy, than any other Solicitor in the City of Cork or West Riding, save the newly appointed Chief Crown Solicitor. As to the manner in which I have performed my work and my professional character, I respectfully refer to the Judges before whom I have practised, and the Officials of the West and East Ridings of the County of Cork. I am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant, Jasper Travers Wolfe. The Under Secretary for Ireland. Dublin Castle. Jasper Travers Wolfe Letter from Jasper Travers Wolfe to Sir Robert Chalmers, 15 May 1916Letter from Jasper Travers Wolfe to Robert Chalmers, 19 May 1916 Skibbereen, Co. Cork, Ireland. Letter from Jasper Travers Wolfe to Sir Robert Chalmers, 15 May 1916Letter from William John Kingston to Sir Robert Chalmers, 8 June 1916. Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland. Letter from Max S. Green to Sir Matthew Nathan, 6 May 1916Letter from Blake & Kenny to Sir Matthew Nathan, 29 April 1916Letter from H.S. Hunter to Sir Matthew Nathan, 26 April 1916Letter from John Robert O'Brien to Sir Robert Chalmers, 15 May 1916Letter from C.H. Hunter to Sir Robert Chalmers, 6 June 1916.Letter from John Condon to The Under Secretary, 17 June, 1916Letter from Valentine Dunn to Robert Chalmers Esq., 19 June, 1916Letter from Thomas M. Gerrard to the Under Secretary of State for Ireland, 19 June, 1916Letter from John J. Ham to the Under-Secretary, 19 June 1916Letter from Dermot MacDermot to Edward O'Farrell, 19 June 1916.Letter from Dermot MacDermot to Edward O'Farrell, 21 June 1916Letter from George F. Montgomery to the Under-Secretary, 20 June 1916Letter from Robert Elder to the Under Secretary, 30 June, 1916Letter from Henry J. Walker to the Lord Lieutenant, 30 June, 1916Letter from Thomas Bodkin and Arnold F. Graves to the Under Secretary, 1 August, 1916Letter from W. P. Henry to L. T. Silvester, 4 August, 1916Letter from the Secretary, Office of the Chief Commissioner of Police, to Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, 26 October 1916Letter from Philip C. P. MacDermot to Sir Henry Arthur Wynne, 11 May 1916Letter from Jasper Travers Wolfe to Sir Robert Chalmers, 15 May 1916Letter from Eugene Callanan to Sir Robert Chalmers, 5 June 1916Circular letter from Edward O'Farrell to Crown and Sessional Crown Solicitors, 20 June 1916Letter to the Chief Secretary of Ireland, 9 June 1916Letter from George M. Marshall to Sir Robert Chalmers, 8 June 1916Letter from J. Houlihan to Sir Robert Chalmers, 8 June 1916Letter from William John Kingston to Sir Robert Chalmers, 8 June 1916.Letter from Ernest G. Moggridge to the Under-Secretary, Dublin Castle, 9 June 1916Letter from John Condon to the Under-Secretary, 23 June 1916Letter to the Chairman of the General Prisons Board, 3 June 1916Letter from Dublin Castle to Rev. James Moody, 2 June 1916Letter from Humphrey Pearson to Robert Chalmers, 21 June 1916