Talk:Robert's letter to Sarah

What on earth is this? I am very confused by the article, and its formatting makes it almost unreadable for me. The contributor who created it seems to be a serious editor (judging from his userpage), so I hope he can clarify it for me here? Right now it's so confusing for me that I almost listed it for VFD, but I am hoping I can understand why it's here before I decide to do that. Jwrosenzweig 07:33, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Explanation

Robert Emmet wrote this famous letter in September 1803 to his fiancee Sarah Curran. Robert Emmet was one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 and this was the last letter he wrote. Sarah Curran is well known figure in Rathfranham and has a pub named after her, which could be considered as a high honour. This letter explains his through feelings for her, since their relation was not approved of by her father. Jorgenpfhartogs 14:59, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't doubt that it is a meaningful letter, but it has no place here. Are you familiar with Wikisource? That's the place for primary documents like the text of this letter. We don't post primary source documents here (for example, the Declaration of Independence article doesn't include the text of the D of I). This article is furthermore exceedingly confusing. The letter should be moved to Wikisource, and anything important about the relationship of these two people should be in their articles. Are you okay with that? Jwrosenzweig 22:01, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Merged and redirected

The distinctive information about the letter has been added to Robert Emmet, and this article now redirects there. RJFJR 22:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)