Letter to C. Hutchinson from A. Irving, 7 May 1880

Observations in your letter of 7 May 80

[...] Wm Donnelly’s proposals to arrest are altogether too wild – he is too able to catch at straws, and too anxious to make himself the instrument of processing evidence.

I have great sympathy for him & I am anxious to get something for him — and you say he thinks of nothing but the murder [...]

(signed) Amelius Irving

Hamilton Sat.
[illegible] of 8 May 1880