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Receipt of requisitions for Charles William Bury, esquire, from Jeremiah D’Olier, gold smith and jeweller, at the Bear and Hammer, Dame Street, near Cork Hill, city of Dublin. Includes one pair plated goblets, engraved gilt, £17.9.8; one oval engraved tea pot, £8.15.0.

Typescript letter from E. White [ 16 Molesworth Street, Dublin] to Ernest H. Browne, esquire, Tullamore, county Offaly, concerning a deduction of the sum of £5006 by the Commissioner of Valuation off land stock of sold land in Marlay Estate, which he describes as being a “very considerable gain to Bury”. White trusts that the estate duty officials will not contest the reduction. He also makes reference to an increase of £930 in the valuation of Ronaldson’s, Shaw’s and Persse’s holdings, “owing to the fines which the Leases disclosed had been paid”, and informs Browne that he is sending a copy of the letter to Bury directly.

Ms. copy letter from E. White, 16 Molesworth Street, Dublin to The Registrar, Estate Duty Office, Dublin, concerning four assessments of duties which he has brought before Mr. Stubbs the examiner, in the case of the sales of the Marlay and Bury estates and the Pilkington Estate. In order to compensate for a deficiency of money in court of £1100, White proposes to pay a total of £1765.6.4 arising out of sold and unsold estate duties and deducting them form the funds in court, with the balance of £70 which the examiner is to pay to the Inland Revenue. Whites also request the Registrar to state in writing that the Pilkington head rent is covered by the assessments and that he approves of the course being adopted.

Copy marriage settlement of Lord Tullamore and Lady Harriet Campbell. In French.

Newspaper cutting from The King’s County Chronicle concerning the death of Miss Marjorie Howard-Bury following a brief illness, which sad event “brought profound grief over and far outside the [Charleville] estate”. Miss Bury was buried in the family vault under the chancel of St. Catherine’s, and it was remarked that “notwithstanding the very severe character of the weather the general procession was of remarkable dimensions”.

Newspaper cutting concerning the death of the “amiable and beloved” Countess of Charleville, daughter of Henry Case, Esquire, Shienstone Cross, Staffordshire, who died from a short bout of scarletina at Erinagh, near Castleconnel, “a mansion which his lordship had taken and gone to reside in for the fishing season”. The Countess was only 35 years old and had resided “almost uninterruptedly” in Charleville Castle, Tullamore, and the tenants on the estate feel now that “they have been deprived of a considerate friend and the poor of the district have to deplore the loss of a generous benefactress”.
The Countess is survived by her five children, two sons and three daughters, and is buried in the family vault at Tullamore.

Newspaper cutting from the King’s County Chronicle, concerning a meeting of the inhabitants of Tullamore “for the purpose of expressing their gratification at the expected arrival of the Noble Earl at his mansion in this county”. It was proposed to invite the Earl and Countess to a public dinner, as a means of expressing “their cordial and grateful thanks for their patriotic intentions of residing amongst them, and also for his Lordship’s past kind conduct as their landlord”.

File of newspaper clippings relating to Kenneth Howard, later Howard Bury.
Includes results of a public schools contest between Harrow, Eton and Rugby, in which Howard, representing Eton, showed “remarkably fine shooting”.
Includes the award by the Council of Military Education to the gentleman cadets, including the award of a small aneroid barometer for second artillery to Howard.
Includes the visit of the Marquis and Marchioness Lansdowne and a party of friends, among them Kenneth Howard, to the bacon curing establishment of Mr. Thomas Harris of Calne, where the party “expressed their delight at the ease, rapidity and cleanliness with which all was managed”.
Includes visit by the Marchioness of Lansdowne to Lady Louisa Howard, daughter of the third Marquis of Lansdowne, at Hazelby, near Newbury. Lady Louise, described as a “remarkable lady” is ninety years old and has been widowed since 1882, when her husband the Hon. James Kenneth Howard, son of the sixteenth Earl of Suffolk, passed away.