Minutes of Proceedings. 79 



A copy of tlie above Eesolution having been forwarded to Dr. Sul- 

 livan, on 29tb December, 1876, Dr. Sullivan replied to the Secretary 

 as follows : — 



"Queen's College, Coek, 



''2Wi Bee, 1876. 



^'Deae Sie, 



"I am now in a position to give the Committee of Irish MSS. the 

 information you asked for in your letter of the 27th JN'ovember. 



" The original estimate of Messrs. Browne & jS'olan (which is in 

 the Academy) was for text and translation on opposite pages, making 

 about thirty-two sheets, or 512 pages, of which 500 copies were to be 

 printed. Preface, notes and index not estimated for. Including these, 

 the book will make about 700 pages, or forty-four sheets. 



" The text is all copied out and ready for printers. The transla- 

 tion is almost all revised, and the greater part of the notes (which will 

 form an Appendix, and not be printed as foot-notes) are also ready : in 

 fact nearly all the work is now done, and it can be passed through the 

 press very rapidly. 



" Six sheets of text and translation are ready to be printed ofP. A 

 good deal of time was spent in preliminary arrangements, so as to save 

 expense in correcting hereafter. This will enable us to carry the work 

 more rapidly through the press henceforward. 



" I remain, &c., 



" W. K. ScLLIVAIf. 



" Pbofessok ATK^^^so^^" 



From this letter the Committee naturally inferred that, all obstacles 

 having been now removed, the work would proceed continuously and 

 rapidly; and accordingly, on March 24th, 1877, the Treasurer was au- 

 thorised to pay Messrs. Browne & Nolan on account of the work to 

 the extent of the funds available for that purpose. On this occasion a 

 sum of £95 was paid. 



For a period of more than a year from the date of the above letter 

 (29th December, 1876) nothing was heard from Dr. Sullivan as to the 

 state of the work under his care, so that the Committee at length felt 



