Document, ms. under printed head. Letter; Alex McCarthy, Town Clerk, Cork, to Alfred C. Wallace, Town Clerk, 27th Sept. 1886; discussing final arrangements for presentation to Gladstone. Written on first and last side of a folded sheet; head, printed in purple with fold to right; "Alex McCarthy/ Town Clerk" at left, at centre top an oval with at centre a sailing ship between two towers, around outside "Town Clerk's Office/ Cork", below "____ day of ____ 188 ". Watermarks; "DLR" monogram; "De La Rue/ Treasury/ Imperial".