Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

95 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 581. “Your Name will not come into the Thing...” Collins (Michael) ALS dated 19 Jan 1920 on paper of Irish Volunteers General Headquarters Dublin, to A Chara [also marked ‘To P. O D’], asking whether ‘there was any one in the office which you left whom I might get approached .. I would of course get this done very carefully .. your name will not come in to the thing in any way .. A O’B does not know of the contents of this but you need have no hesitation in mentioning them to him if necessary’. With a full signature, Mícheál Ó Coileáin. An important letter, quintessential Collins. (1) €4000 - €6000 582. Any Particulars .. Collins (Michael) A collection including an envelope addressed in Collins’ hand to P. O’Delaney, with a note Signed M.C. saying ‘Art knows who this is’; also a cryptic ALS Signed Art Ua Briain dated 28/11/19 to ‘A chara’, saying ‘Michael Collins requests me to ask you if you are in a position to supply him with any particulars such as those which you used to give him in Dublin’, etc.; a postally used envelope addressed to Collins at a West Kensington address; and a receipt issued to Collins for £3 - 2s., returns from MacHale concert, Signed MacDonnell, dated 15.3.1915. Art O’Briain was President of the Sinn Fein Council of Great Britain. His reference to ‘particulars’ strongly suggests there is an intelligence connotation. As a collection, w.a.f. (1) €2000 - €3000