21 - Letter from Victor Waddington

21

Letter from Victor Waddington

1 p.; typescript

A letter from Victor Waddington to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. agreeing to anonymously support the National Loan Exhibition for Jack B. Yeats. Waddington writes ‘I have already enough bitter experience of being branded as an opportunist Jew because I saw fit to help in what I thought I was right to help in. Apart from this, I and my people, are so rapidly, day by day, being reminded that we are non-Gaelic (this term becoming the same as Aryan or non-Aryan except that Gaelic is another word) so I have no inclination to take part in anything …’.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition