 I am not surprised at your friend's anger but he and you should know that to denounce the murders was the only course open to us. To do that promptly was plainly our best policy. But you can tell him and all others concerned that though I regret the accident...  The Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846-1891 - Page 165by Richard Barry O'Brien - 1898 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Emerson - History, Modern - 1901 - 766 pages
...The letter read thus: "15 | B | 82. Tbepigott "DEAR SIB—I am not surprised at your friend's tetter anger, but he and you should know that to denounce...to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts. " CHARLES S. PARNELL." Parnell promptly denounced this letter as a forchMgw gery. Nevertheless his... | |
 | Alfons Marie Napoleon Prayon-van Zuylen - Ireland - 1902 - 534 pages
...and all others concerneJ, that, though I regret the accident of Lord FREDERICK CAVKNDISH'i deal h, I cannot refuse to admit that BURKE got no more than...him this, and others whom you can trust also, but Ut not my address bc known. I[e can write to House of Commons. Yours very trufy, CHARLES S. PARNELL,... | |
 | Francis Lewis Wellman - Cross-examination - 1903 - 296 pages
...Under Secretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, on May 6, 1882. One particular sentence in the letter read, " I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts." The publication of this letter naturally made a great stir in Parliament and in the country at large.... | |
 | Michael Davitt - Ireland - 1904 - 780 pages
...signature, purporting to justify the Phoenix Park murders. Its terms were as follows: " May 15, 1882. " DEAR SIR, — I am not surprised at your friend's...also, but let not my address be known. He can write to House of Commons. "Yours very truly, "CHAS. S. PARNELL." In a previous article, printed on March roth,... | |
 | Timothy Daniel Sullivan - Ireland - 1905 - 422 pages
...best policy. But you can tell him, and all others concerned, that though I regret the accident of Lord Cavendish's death, I cannot refuse to admit that Burke...others whom you can trust also, but let not my address bo known. He can write to the House of Commons. Yours truly, CHARLES S. PARNELL. On that same night,... | |
 | George Carter - Great Britain - 1898 - 312 pages
...himself was said to have written a letter in reference to the Phoenix Park murders, in which he said, " Though I regret the accident of Lord F. Cavendish's...to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts? A Special Commission was appointed by Government to try the case. NOTE. — In 1890 the Special Commission... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Home rule - 1907 - 256 pages
...the text of the " facsimile" letter, which appeared in the Times of April 18, 1887 : — " 16/5/82 " DEAR SIR, " I am not surprised at your friend's anger,...also, but let not my address be known. He can write to House of Commons. " Yours very truly, "CHAS. S, PARXKU." And the following is Richard Pigott's principal... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - Great Britain - 1911 - 450 pages
...plainly our best policy." The writer, while expressing regret for Lord F. Cavendish's death, added, " I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts." The effect of this terrible document was instantaneous. It seemed hardly possible that the Times would... | |
 | George Shaw-Lefevre Baron Eversley - Great Britain - 1912 - 438 pages
...the Phoenix Park murders. " You can tell all concerned," it said, " that though I regret the incident of Lord F. Cavendish's death, I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts." The implication was that Parnell was a consenting party to the tragedy. Parnell, in his place in the... | |
 | Algar Labouchere Thorold - 1913 - 616 pages
...resistance — what has since become known as " the facsimile letter. " It ran as follows: 15/5/82. DEAR SIR, — I am not surprised at your friend's...also, but let not my address be known. He can write to House of Commons. — Yours very truly, CHAS. S. PARNELL. I have before me the photograph of the facsimile... | |
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