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Correspondence and other papers of the 4th and 5th Earls of Rosse on subjects other than astronomy, including estate and other King’s County affairs, the 4th Earl’s contributions to public life as a representative peer, Chancellor of T.C.D., etc, etc.

Maps, plans and drawings, [c.1610], 1638, [c. 1690] and c. 1750-1790, mainly of a size which makes it physically convenient to form them into a separate section.

Correspondence of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Rosse with fellow-astronomers or about the Birr and other observatories, including correspondence of the 5th and 6th Earls about the Birr Observatory, 1840-1909, 1913-14, 1938 and 1964-84.

Letters and papers, 1739-1995 (mainly 1876-1962), of the Lister Kaye family, of Denby Grange, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, one of whom, Frances Lois, second daughter of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister Kaye, 4th Baronet, married in 1905 the 5th Earl of Rosse.

Artificial collection of letters and papers, 1856-2006, received or assembled by other members of the Parsons/Rosse family, concerning the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, the inventor of the turbine engine, a younger brother of the 4th Earl of Rosse.

Papers (almost exclusively estate and financial), c. 1540-2001, of the Wilmer Field family of Heaton Hall, Bradford, Yorkshire, whose co-heiress, Mary Field, married in 1836 Lord Oxmantown, later 3rd Earl of Rosse, including a few papers about the Heaton estate after its merger with the Rosse estates in Ireland.

Letters and papers of the 6th Earl and Countess of Rosse, 1914-2002.

Correspondence and other papers of the 3rd Earl of Rosse, 1829, 1832 and 1840-2003, as President of the Royal Society, Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, Lieutenant of King's County, leading landowner there, and general public figure, excluding where physically possible correspondence of the sort concentrated in Section K.

Letters and papers of the 7th Earl of Rosse and his wife, Alison, 1955-2005.

Letters and papers of the Linley and Sambourne families, the maternal ancestors of Anne (née Messel), Countess of Rosse, wife of the 6th Earl, `801, [1809?], 1826, and 1873-2005.