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ADDRESS
TO JAMES J. HICKSON, ESQ.
WE, the undersigned, desire to bid you welcome on your return to your native county, and especially to this part of the country with which you and your family have been so long connected. We have a lively recollec- tion of your residence among us in past years. We remember you as the kind friend and neighbour, and the honest, impartial, and faithful magistrate. Borne down by the tide of adversity which overflowed this country in the disastrous year of '47, and subsequently, you, like many others, were forced to yield and try your
fortune in a distant land. You have had our heartfelt sympathies in your trials and reverses, and now that, in more prosperous times, you are once again among us, we offer you, from us all, without distinction of creed or class, from your brother magistrates with whom you have acted, from the clergy of all persuasions by whom you were respected, and from the people generally by whom you were beloved, this expression of our welcome and feelings towards you. You have our carnest wishes and prayers for success and happiness.
February 15, 1856.
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Ventry, Burnhamn House, Dingle.
D. B. De Moleyns, D.L., Lieut.-Colonel, Kerry
Militia.
R. C. Hickson, High Sheriff (1855.)
R. Chute, High Sheriff.
A. B. Rowan, D.D., Rector of Kiigobbiu.
Thomas De Moleyns, J.P. and Q.C.
E. De Moleyns, Burnham House.
E. Hussey, J.P.
W. Godfrey Hickson, J.P.
J. Brunskill, Rector of Killiny.
J. O'Kane, P.P., Castlegregory.
James Irwin, C.C., Castlegregory.
William Hilliard, J.P.
R. Swindell, Chancellor of Ardfert.
James Weir, Rector of Cloghane.
Thomas Goodman, Clerk, Dingle.
George Williams, M.D.
R. J. Hickson, M.D.
John Lynch, Castlegregory.
George Hilliard, P.L.G.
Charles Daly, P.L.G.
Hugh Crean, P.L.G.
Maurice Connor, Kilcummin, P.L.G.
John Walsh, P.L.G.
John Corkory, P.L.G.
William Neligan, Dingle,
William Payne, Castlegregory, P.L.G.
D. L. McCarthy, P.L.G.
J. W. Busteed, M.D., Castlegregory,
REPLY.
MY LORD AND GENTLEMEN,
Most sincerely do I thank you for your kind expression of sympathy, regard, and welcome, affording me as it does a most gratifying proof of a continuance of that friendship which it was long my happiness to enjoy. Be assured, that amid the difficulties with which I had to contend in a distant land, where, borne down by circumstances over which I had no control, I sought to improve my position, I have ever had before me a lively recollection of the happy days I spent among you. And I beg to assure you that, wherever my future lot may be cast, or in whatever position I may be placed, I shall be cheered and grati- fied by the flattering testimony of continued kindly feeling and regard with which you have honoured me.
With feelings of gratitude and esteem,
March 1, 1856.
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1 remain, my Lord and Gentlemen,
Yours most faithfully,
JAMES J. HICKSON.
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