1 BROWN DURRELL CO IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, HEANDKERCHIEFS & FURNISHINGS BOSTON
104 Kingston Street NEW YORK
11 West 19th Street CHICAGO
506 Textile bldg. Adams & 5th Ave. Officers and Directors Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, Prest. and Treas
Hugh Mullen Vice Prest. and Asst Treas
William H. Stalker
Paul E. Fitzpatrick
James P Lynch
Frank S. Adams
Thomas M Fitzpatrick Mar. 7, 1917 Cable Address DURRELL Liebers Code Used Dear Mr Walsh: I have been home sick for some days, and
therefore my correspondence, and other obligations, have
been neglected. I have recovered enough, however, to be
in a few hours today, and tomorrow I am going away to
take a rest for two or three weeks. It is needless to say that I regret
extremely to learn that conditions are such that you
cannon continue the good work you have been doing in
conducting and editing Ireland. You will recall
that when the proposition was originally made, I was
not free to recommend it on account of what I believed
might be the financial difficulties, for I appreciated
the fact, and gave utterance to it at the time, that I
belived it was no trifling matter to establish a news-
paper. I felt sure that it required moneyed backing that
I could see no guarantee of at the time, but still, if
others thought it wise, I would do my humble share in
contributing at the outset. I feel sure you have done your share to
make the paper a success, and if you had the necessary
support I am confident it would become a great power for
good in the land. We need such a paper, not only to give
proper representation to the best claims of Ireland for
representative government, but for the vital interests
of the Irish race in the United States. To do this,
however, will require adequate means in the way of money
and equipment, and I would be glad to see a disposition on
the part of our well-to-do men of the Irish race to furnish
aid for such an enterprise. It certainly would be too much
to ask of you, or of any single individual, to bear the
burden alone. I feel confident that you have done more
of this already than most men would be willing to do, and
while the readers of Ireland will regret any interruption
in its publication, no one can blame your good self for
taking the position outlined in your letter. I remain, Respectfully yours J B Fitzpatrick