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Madam, – Paul Gorry (Letters, January 11th) is correct to advertise the sorry history of our documentary heritage and the irony of the current proposal to merge the National Archives of Ireland into the National Library. The loss of one national archive in 1922 was a misfortune. To lose a second looks, to coin a phrase, like carelessness.