Letters to Duffy, 1855-1880

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The 1855-1880 letters were mostly written to Duffy in Australia, but the quantity is far less than the earlier and later letters and references to Australia tend to be incidental. The letters refer to the conflict with Archbishop Cullen, the 1855 mission to Rome, Duffy's decision to leave Ireland, his reception by the Irish in Sydney and Melbourne, the return of William Smith O'Brien to Ireland in 1856, literary matters, introductions written on behalf of people visiting Australia, a meeting between Thomas Carlyle and Henry Parkes, British and Irish politics, Duffy's visit to England and Ireland in 1865-66, immigration, Duffy's Land Act, relations between the colonies and Britain, Anthony Trollope's visit to Australia (1871), the possibility of Australian federation (1872), the conferral of the KCMG on Duffy (1877), Sir George Bowen's impressions of Mauritius (1879), and the publication of Young Ireland, Duffy's first historical book (1880).

The correspondents include Sir Redmond Barry (Melbourne), Sir George Bowen, William Carleton, Jane Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, Lord Carnarvon, John B. Dillion, J.P. Fawkner (Melbourne), J.R. Godley, Arthur Helps, R.H. Horne (Melbourne), Mary Howitt, Charles Kingsley, W.E.H. Lecky, Robert Lowe, W. Macready, John Stuart Mill, William Smith O'Brien, Kevin O'Doherty, Thomas O'shea, Sir James Emerson Tennant, William Thackeray, Anthony Trollope (Melbourne) and Thomas Woolner.

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