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be made from such establishments will enable the borrowers to 

 pay off the loan in five years, if proper machinery be first 

 organized for preparing the material. 



' ' 1 am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, 



"J. H. DICKSON. 



" London, April 20, 1852." 



Previous to my publishing the above letter, on public 

 grounds, and in most respectful terms, I addressed a letter to 

 the late Marquis of Landsdowne, pointing out the advantages 

 that would unquestionably follow, if he gave his patronage and 

 support to my views of introducing into the workhouse of 

 Tralee my system of employing the inmates, which contained 

 7,000 of his tenantry; but in place of the noble marquis 

 feeling obliged to me for the facts which I brought before 

 him — facts that every man in the north of Ireland would bear 

 witness of — as to the result from which alone their poor- 

 houses never contained one-eighth of the inmates in Tralee 

 workhouse, he wrote in answer as follows ; — 



" London, June 27, 1851. 

 "Sir, — I am directed by the Marquis of Lansclowne to 

 acknowledge your letter of the 25th instant, and in reply 

 to inform you, that he has adopted for the improvement 

 of his property in Ireland such measures as he thinks 

 desirable, under the local superintendence of persons in 

 whom he places confidence, and therefore is under no 

 necessity of troubling you upon the subject ; if, however, 

 he should be desirous of communicating with you, he will 

 not fail to let you know. 



<( I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, 



"W. ABNOLD. 



" J. Hill Dickson, Esq." 



As I only took the liberty to point out by my letter 

 how the condition of the tenants of the noble marquis 



