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THIS LOT HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.... Archive of Edmund Downey Five Boxes containing papers of the Waterford Publisher, Novelist, Newspaper Editor and Historian Edmund Downey - Manuscript Drafts, Proofs and Reviews of Novels, Correspondence, and other Miscellanea. Edmund Downey (1856-1937), The son of a Waterford ship broker, emigrated to London in 1878, where he worked for and then edited Tinsley's Magazine, co-founded the firm of Ward & Downey in 1890, and in 1894 founded his own firm, Downey & Co. He wrote and published Irish-flavoured novels, some co-authored by his wife and published by him under her name, F.M. Allen. He also published the works of other Irish writers and helped to publicise the Irish novel, both in Britain and Ireland. In 1906 he returned to Waterford, where he bought the Waterford News. In 1914 he wrote and published a history of Waterford city, important as being the first to use the unpublished 18th-century Corporation records. He also produced a series of still-useful guides to Waterford city and county. After 1916 he became an ardent supporter of Sinn Féin, and was for a time ''on the run'' because of his opposition to the Treaty. His wife died in 1918 and in 1928 he married again. He was the father of six children. Principal contents of the Archive: · A large file of correspondence with Downey's cousin, the author Richard Dowling (1846-1898), much of whose work was published by Downey (box 4) · Galleys and some Manuscript of works by Dowling (box 4) · Working papers for Downey's article on the Merry family of Waterford (box 1), published in the Journal of the Waterford & SE Ireland Arch. Soc, Jan. 1913; including letters from Godfrey Merry London, and from John de Courcy Mac Donnell of the Union Celtique, Brussels; typescript copy of a note by Mac Donnell on the Merry and Power families read to the Union Celtique in 1911; and typescript copy of decision in Rolls Court in re Merry v Power. · Manuscript of all or part of several novels, including Mount Misery, Clay Cottage, Three Fingers · Reviews of Clashmore and The Merchant of Killogue by ''F.M. Allen'' · Photostat copies of documents setting up the firm of Downey & Co. (box 4) · Pamphlet by ''A Liverpool Priest'' criticising Luke Delmage (sic) and other novels by Canon Sheehan (box 5) · Here and There: Memories by ''H.R.N.'' (pseudonym of John Joseph Dunne), London, J. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Legal, political and social life in Ireland, with anecdotes of friends and politicians. Original cover, disbound, with many corrections for proposed new edition published by Downey & Co., with some portrait sketches not used in first edition (box 4) · ''Continental Gossiping'' by Charles Lever, edited by Downey (box 2) · Scrapbook: ''Stories of London Night'' by Dowling: news cuttings with corrections (box 5) · 1 letter each from Alfred P. Graves (1914) requesting to use Downey's story ''Father Crotty's Hat'' in his Humours of Irish Life and from Tim Healy (1916) thanking him for a pamphlet (box 4) · Typescripts of ''Sir Bootlegger'' by Nathaniel Byrne (Ontario) and a short story ''Proud Humility'' (box 2) · Draft manifesto (1 page) to the citizens of Waterford; typescript (3 pp) on Cathal Brugha (box 4) · Pamphlet ''An Irish Murder, or, Is it a system?'' by M.A. Manning, Hon Sec Waterford City branch, Irish National League (box 5) · A packet of limericks (box 1), many with a Waterford flavour, e.g.: ''A butler of Carrickavrantry / was overly fond of 'decantry'. He spent every day / with his head in a tray / of a corner discreet of his pantry''. · Various other humorous items, stories, pamphlets etc. · News cuttings of obituaries of Downey (box 5). An extensive and important Archive. (1)