• Title
  Emily Nuttall Thorne 'Clontarf', an account of the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, at Clontarf on 12 March 1868
• Creator
  Emily Nuttall Thorne, 1851-1903
• Call number
  MLMSS 6100
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1867-1868
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  113163
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.02 metres of textual material (1 folder), with drawings - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Emily Thorne (1851-1903) was the sixth child of Sydney businessman George Thorne, who built 'Claremont' at Rose Bay (later the Sacred Heart Convent), and his wife Elizabeth. On 12 March 1868 Emily and her family attended a picnic at Clontarf at which Henry James O'Farrell, an Irishman with Fenian sympathies, shot and wounded Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. A second shot injured George Thorne in the foot.
• Scope and Content
  A notebook which contains an eye-witness account of the picnic and the attempted assassination, pencil sketches of the picnic crowd and marquees, and newscuttings and poems about the Prince and Queen Victoria. The notebook also includes brief notes on sermons attended by Emily in November and December 1867.
• Finding Aids
  Transcript available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D33361/a1240.html
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 3560, frames 1-33.
  See other related Duke of Edinburgh material (1868 onwards) included on the same microfilm reel (CY 3560): Al 37/1-8; MLDOC 666; MLDOC 524.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823501
• Name
  O'Farrell, Henry James, 1833-1868
  Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1844-1900
  
• Subject
  Attempted assassination.
  Children's writings, Australian.
  Sermons--New South Wales.
  
• Place
  Clontarf (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1657574

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