Item 51 - Autograph letter, signed, to 'Dear Sir' from Robert Walsh, Rector of Finglas, Stamford

Hoped to see AJC in Ireland last Summer and show parts of Co. Wicklow but this has been denied. Mentions his interest in gardening as being the only exercise he has taken for sometime. Notes that Professor Davy is visiting Dublin to give a lecture on 'chemico-electricity and geology' and discusses the previous time he saw the Professor give a talk. Sends a sample of Kilkenny coal and discusses its properties in relation to a lecture given by Doctor Clarke on mineralogy in Cambridge the previous year and also based on his own observations. Also describes its use by the Irish people both domestically and in industry. Also sends a sample of Galena found in a local lead mine and describes the marine site of the mine. Sends the rules of the 'Harp Society' [A Dublin society to teach blind children to play the harp] and describes its failure due to lack of funds, but notes that the Institution in Belfast has managed to educate 9 or 10 blind children. Gives an account of how the Institution benefits the musicians by teaching them to be 'correct. temperate and decorous in their conduct'.