File 10 - Letter from Charles Russell, Maynooth College, County Kildare to his sister, Anne Russell

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Letter from Charles Russell, Maynooth College, County Kildare to his sister, Anne Russell

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  • 28 November 1828 (Creation)

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Letter from Charles Russell, Maynooth College, County Kildare to his sister Anne Russell. Remarks that there was an eclipse of the sun 'I observed it very accurately. When I saw it first a very small segment was obscured but in a short time more than one third was covered. I never had a perfect idea of an eclipse until today. Describes what it is like to be studying in Maynooth. Remarks that he has a bad place in the study hall as the people around him talk. Refers to his room 'I am beginning already to feel the cold at night. I suppose it is because my curtains are so bad if they may be called curtains which are all full of holes and as thin as wafer.' Includes a xerox copy of the letter.

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1998

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