BOX 9 - MAGAZINES & PUBLICATIONS
Ref No.	Category	Title	Description
F09/01	Magazine	Lawn Tennis Tournament	Buxton 1884. 'The Song of the Tournament, as told by Hiawatha to his children', text by French, illustrations by Pigot.
F09/02	Magazine	White Lines	White Lines. A Tennis Court Chronicle, Buxton, 1885. Text by French, illustrations by Pigot.
F09/03	Magazine	Tennis Tournament	Supplement of the Irish Cyclist and Athlete, 1887. Text by French, illustrations by RC Orpen.  Includes The Tennis Worshippers. "By Thomas Moore, only Moore so."
			"Tis Morning, on Eblana's towers
			The sunshine sheds a fitful gleam
			The raindrops fall in pearly showers
			On Anna Liffey's sullen stream." Etc.
			and
			"Oh blame not the Bard if he fly to the bowers
			Where luncheons are laid for the brave and the free,
			He came to do more but his limited powers
			Must oft be recruited by afternoon tea."  Etc.
F09/04	Magazine	Fitzwilliam Square	A Lawn Tennis Lay, text by French illustrations by RC Orpen.
			"In the world's great game of tennis
			Which from pole to pole is seen
			Let love be the point of starting
			Faults be few and far between
			Raise no wild unseemly racket
			From base lines of life break loose
			Win no underhand advantage
			This the moral we deduce.  WF."
F09/04A	Magazine	Fitzwilliam Square	Another copy of above.
F09/05	Magazine	Hee-Haw-Watha	Christmas Number of the Irish Cyclist and Athlete, 1887, text by French, illustrations by RC Orpen.  Includes The Tennis Players.
F09/06	Magazine	Racquety Rhymes	Magazine, 1888, text by French, illustrations by RC Orpen.
			"Hey Diddle Diddle
			A net in the middle
			A youth who commences to spoon;
			The little dog laughed to see them court
			And the game is two love very soon.
			Little Miss Muffet she got such a buffet
			From a ball in the very first set;
			Though we often do chide her she stays an outsider
			And never comes up to the net."
			Includes advert for Songs of the Season: "Slathery's Mounted Fut and Andy McElroe.  Very Funny Words. Catching Music.  Ringing Chorus.  Equally suitable for the Battlefield, the Boudoir, the Bungalow, and the Banjoist and the Bedlamite."
F09/06A	Magazine	Racquety Rhymes	Another copy of above.
F09/06B	Magazine	Racquety Rhymes	Another copy of above, without cover.
F09/07	Magazine	The Fall of Fitz-Illium	Magazine 1889, text by French, illustrations by RC Orpen.
F09/08	Booklet	The First Lord Liftinant	Booklet 1890, written by French, sketched by RC Orpen.  Includes The First Lord Liftinant/The Rout of Rathmines/Strongbow.
F09/08A	Booklet	The First Lord Liftinant	Another copy of above.
F09/09	Supplement page	The Irish Cyclist	Page from supplement to The Irish Cyclist, illustration Tinnahinch Bridge, by Ethel French, 7th January 1891.
F09/10	Supplement pages	The Irish Cyclist	Pages from supplement to The Irish Cyclist, 16th November 1892. Includes sketch of French in joker's costume, as Will Wagtail (a nom-de-plume), by RC Orpen.
F09/11	Magazine	John Bull	Magazine 25th June 1902.  Includes "The Heralds' Controversy" by French.
			"Calm yourselves, gentlemen" pleaded the Herald of England, "while I make sure I follow you.  You, Ulster, assert that Edward the Seventh is really Edward the Second, as Edward the Sixth was the first Irish Edward.  Whilst you, Lyon, tell me that Edward the Seventh is really Edward the First, being the first king of that name who has ruled over Scotland."
			"Man, ye'r maist expleecit."
			"Your suggestion, under these circumstances, my dear Ulster, was to add the Edwards together and divide by three, thus obtaining the average monarch."
			"Divil a doubt of it,"
			"I beg to differ - firstly Edward the Three-and-a-Third would be an impossible title; secondly, our King is much above the average."
F09/12	Page	The Irish Cyclist	Poem "The Poet and the Press Gang", by French, describing the cyclists.
F09/13	Booklet	The Foolish Little Frog	Children's book by French, illustrated by John Hassall. The whole is an advert for Colman's Mustard and Robinson's Barley and Groats.
			"And the moral for you
			Is, don't say 'pooh!'
			Whatever your 'din-din' be;
			To the silly little sinner,
			Who hasn't had his dinner -
			It's a long, long time till tea!"
F09/14	Pamphlet, sketches	How Hiawatha Won the Cup	Pamphlet, 1913, text by French, illustrations by Hubert Leslie, several sketches of French by Leslie.
			"This is all my gentle reader
			That the Poet has to tell you;
			…To the squaws and the papooses:
			All I know is - 'Tea is ready'."
F09/15	Pages	The Irish Cyclist	Photocopy of pages from The Irish Cyclist, 16th November 1892 (See F09/10).
F09/16	Advertisement	Racquety Rhymes	Photocopy of advert page, see F09/06.
F09/17	Magazine	Racquety Rhymes	Photocopy Racquety Rhymes, see F09/06.
F09/18	Page	Racquety Rhymes	Photocopy page from Racquety Rhymes, see F09/06.
F09/19			EMPTY SLEEVE
F09/20	Pages	The Irish Cyclist	Photocopy pages from The Irish Cyclist and Athlete.   Includes Up Goes the Price (printed in AT, Signs of the Times.  Comes a marvellous invention (printed in AT).
F09/21	Pages	The Irish Cyclist	Another photocopy of above, second page.
F09/22	Pages	The Irish Cyclist	Ditto, first page.
F09/23	Photographs	Mecredy's Map of Kerry	Photographs of Mecredy's Map of Kerry, and details. From a hotel in Kerry. Also 35mm negs. Includes photographs of French.
			ALSO Various extra photocopies
			Uncatalogued batch of photocopies of The Irish Cyclist and Athlete, from AT's research.