A letter to Sir Dominic Corrigan, Bart. M.D., etc. and correspondence between the Irish government and John McDonnell, M.D. occasioned by the publication of that letter.

McDonnell, John

Date:: 1868

Credit: A letter to Sir Dominic Corrigan, Bart. M.D., etc. and correspondence between the Irish government and John McDonnell, M.D. occasioned by the publication of that letter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$letter on the subject of the Dublin election. I had not the least intention of questioning,'much less of interfering with your political opinions, or 'the ex- ercise of your vote at the ensuing election, and I am sorry that you should, under a misapprehension, have taken so much trouble in adverting to them. ]\Iy object was to afford you an opportunity, before I submitted the correspondence to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, of offering any observations upon it which you might think proper, seeing that public attention has recently been directed to a decision of your department, that officers of it, while exercising their votes, ought not to take a prominent part in the elections, the inference of Mr. Cronhelm clearly being, that in publishing your letter in the ncAvs- papers you had transgressed this rule. Believing you to have replied to Mr. Thynne’s let- ter under a misapprehension of its object, I will not submit the correspondence to his Excellency till I hear further from you. I am. Sir, Your obedient servant, J. Wilson Patten. J, McDonnell, Esq , M.D. 4, Gai'dincr’s Eow, Dublin.$