Item 40 - Octave Fariola, Paris, to Anthony C. Griffin, Chief Executive, Irish Republican Brotherhood in America, 29 March 1867

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Letter from Octave Fariola, a Belgian soldier serving as chief of staff of the Fenian (Irish Republican) forces during the 1867 Fenian Rising, lamenting the lack of funding for Fenian troops in Europe from Irish Americans ('I repeat there is no chance of serious success without your aid.')
The letter is enclosed with a note for a Mr. Pelletier asking him to forward the letter to Griffin (approximate translation: 'Enclosed you will find a letter for the chief of the Fenians in America, which I ask you to deliver to him immediately. First, because we cannot delay without exposing ourselves to immense dangers, and secondly because you can certify my signature. I do not doubt that you will excuse this new form of communication in view of the impossibility under which we find ourselves of corresponding freely. General Cluseret is preparing a lengthy letter for next week and meanwhile sends you his regards. As for me, my dear sir, I can only renew the assurance of my devotion and my comradeship.')