11 1907 
TO THE 
RIGHT HON. JOHN FOSTER, 
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, PRE- 
SIDENT OF THE FARMING SOCIETY OF 
IRELAND, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE 
DUBLIN sociETy, &c. &c. 
SIR, 
THE many wise and salutary regu- 
lations, which you have made for the 
good of your country, the zeal which 
you have always evinced for the ad- 
vancement of its agricultural interests, 
and the encouragement which you 
“y 
have given to every undertaking tend- 
ing to promote that end, are motives 
which would induce me, as an Irish- 
man, to select, you as. the. person. of 
all others under whose patronage J 
AQ would 
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NEW YORK 
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