Daniel O'Connor - Correspondence, 1879-1893, together with a collection of autograph letters, 1854-1889, received from Sir Henry Parkes

MLMSS 6610

fonds

1854 - 1893

Textual Records, Clippings

395058

Microfilm : CY 3947, frames 1 - 482 (MLMSS 6610)

1 box - 0.13 Meters
Textual Records
Clippings
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)

Daniel O'Connor (1844-1914), parliamentarian, was born at Tipperary, Ireland and migrated to Sydney with his parents in 1854. O'Connor was active in the Catholic Association and was the founding chairman of the Catholic Truth Society. O'Connor represented Phillip Ward on the Sydney City Council between 1876 and 1885. From 1877 to 1891 O'Connor represented West Sydney in the Legislative Assembly. He was appointed postmaster-general in John Robertson's 1885 cabinet, and again in Henry Parkes' ministry in 1889. O'Connor lost his seat in the Legislative Assembly in the June 1891 election, and was subsequently appointed to the Legislative Council.
O'Connor was declared bankrupt in 1892 and resigned from the Legislative Council. He was reappointed to the Legislative Council in 1895, and resigned in 1898 in order to contest a seat in the Legislative Assembly as a federal oppositionist. He won the seat of Sydney-Phillip in 1900 with protectionist support and held the seat until 1904. O'Connor withdrew from the 1904 elections when he was not endorsed as a Liberal candidate.

1879-1893; Correspondence, being manuscript letters received and including some carbon typescript copies of letters sent.
1887-1893; A - D, correspondents include: R.D. Allann, 1891; Minnie Forbes Angus, Date unknown; Gordon Baillie, 1887; Sarah Bernhardt, 1891; W. Best, 1890; Dion Boucicault, 1890; K. Burdekin, Date unknown; Joseph Patrick Byrne, 1889; Lord Carrington, 1889-1891; William Bede Dalley, 1879-1888, Date unknown; Father Joseph Dalton S.J., 1880-1893; Henry Dangar, Date unknown; Augusta Dargan-Pierce, 1899; George R. Dibbs, 1891-1899, Date unknown; W.S. Dowd, 1891
1881-1892; E - O, correspondents include: Edmund Gerald FitzGibbon, Date unknown; George Goschen, Date unknown; George Henry Greene, 1891; George Grey, Date unknown; John Kevin, 1889; Effie Gray James, Date unknown; John Henniker Heaton, 1890; F.H. Herbert, 1889; Louis Francis Heydon, 1892; Phillip Joseph Holdsworth, 1881; James Inglis, 1891; Lord Jersey, 1891-1892; Arthur Keith-Falconer, Date unknown; Lady Kintore, Date unknown; Rupert Leigh, 1891; William Montagu Manning, Date unknown; E.A. Martin, 1884; Patrick Francis Moran, 1889-1891; D. Christie Murray, Date unknown; James Joseph O'Brien, 1889; E. O'Doherty, Date unknown; Alexander Oliver, 1889
1888-1893; P , correspondents include Eleanor Parkes, 1889, and Sir Henry Parkes, 1888-1893, being 61 letters
1873-1891; Q - Z, correspondents include: Sir George Reid, Date unknown; Sir John Robertson, 1885-1890; George Augustus Salan, 1885; Julian Emanuel Salomons, 1891; Saul Samuel, 1889-1891; Samuel John Austin Sheehy, 1879; Arthur Sketchley, 1880; Sir Alfred Stephen, 1887-1890, Date unknown; Caroline Sibella Stephen, 1891; Julian Thomas, Date unknown; John Thurston, 1891; John Lawrence Toole, 1890; Roger Bede Vaughan, 1879-1880, Date unknown; J. Ward, 1891; Sir Samuel James Way, 1890; B.R. Wise, 1889-1891
Miscellaneous papers, including loose cards and papers with autographs, poem, manuscript versions of The Lord's Prayer written in Irish, Anglo Saxon, Gaelic, German and Danish
1854-1889; Collection of autograph letters received from Sir Henry Parkes, being manuscript letters he received from various correspondents.
Correspondents include: Sir George Ferguson Bowen, 1878; William Cowper, 1855; John N. Dickinson, 1856; Stuart Alexander Donaldson, 1856; C. Gavan Duffy, 1872; William A. Duncan, Date unknown; Charles Kemp,Date unknown; W.V. Lecky,1889; James MacArthur,1855; John McEnroe, 1858; Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, 1854; Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, 1856; Annie Parkes, Date unknown; William Richman Piddington, Date unknown; John Hubert Plunkett, 1855; Edward Raines, 1861; Charles James Roberts, 1893; Alexander Stuart, 1860

The Daniel O'Connor collection is a longstanding holding of the Mitchell Library, previously located at A 74 and later transferred to *D 169. The collection was originally bound in a volume using non acid-free materials. The letters have been removed from the binding, rehoused in acid-free folders, and microfilmed for long term preservation purposes.
This collection was listed as part of the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW 1856-2006 Project.