URSULA WHEATLEY,
Sir, - I was very interested to read Brian Maye's Irishman's Diary of July 10th about Cecil Rhodes - especially about the £10,000 cheque for Irish Home Rule. My grandfather, John Morrogh of Cork, was a director of De Beers; he was also an MP and a Parnellite. It was he who persuaded Rhodes to donate the money to Parnell. The cheque was made out to John Morrogh and duly passed on. My sister has that original cheque from Rhodes.
Brian Maye also mentioned Dr Jameson of the Jameson Raid. He was the doctor who attended my grandmother at the birth of my mother - Kate Cagney of Cork - in Kimberley in December 1887. - Yours, etc.,
URSULA WHEATLEY, St John's Wood, Dublin 3.