Dev did not destroy Collins documents

YOUR issue of February 13 last contained a report on the sale of a letter “penned

Thu, 27 Mar, 2003 - 00:00
Michael Collins.”

The report quoted the auction cataloguer as saying that most official documents bearing Collins’ name “were destroyed by Eamon de Valera.”

That is incorrect and I have waited in vain for someone in Fianna Fail to refute it. There is public access to Collins’ papers in the National Library, as well as Cabinet minutes and Dept. of Finance records in the National Archive.

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