Burkes of Ballydugan / Michael Henry Burke (1853-1935) / Letter from Michael H Burke to his son, William St George Burke

(Part on Ballydugan and part on The Berners Hotel, London headed paper) writing that he was pleased to hear that Dunlop ‘has promised to insist that Mellow does not delay any longer completing his contract’’ (p1) and going into some detail regarding electrical works, and the erection of the engine and dynamo, though he paid Mr Hormsby separately for some related work, Mr Ryder Jnr still sent in a bill for £15, even though he had Burke’s ‘workmen to bore all the holes even the one through the wall of this house in connecting the pipe for Dynamo with the electric plain in this house’(p2), ‘Mr Ryder should not have stated and made me understand the business was only with [Messrs] Hormsby as per my contract with them the erecting of the engine and dynamo as explained. Otherwise I was under the impression that Mr Ryder Snr was disposed to act straight in the fulfilling of his contract’ (p4). Also regarding specifications and tenders for painting, one from a painter who ‘charges most exorbitantly’ (p6), advising that he has purchased a working mare, and that Mrs Cameron and Mary Burke ‘arrived so that I am now feeling in clover, so with her chauffeur we are getting on splendidly, she is expecting her cook down tomorrow also, so that all is very comfortable’ (p6).