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Diary written by Benjamin Bloomfield Trench which documents his wife's death. Within the diary Benjamin records her last words, visits from her family, breaking the news to his daughters and her funeral.

One exchange Benjamin recorded shows that Dora Trench knew her death was imminent 'When I came upstairs after dinner she said. "Come & sit near me, we shall not have more evenings together' I asked if she felt worse or had been in pain. She said "No I feel my end is near".'

Personalised diary belonging to Dora Turnor.The diary was a 'gift from 'Etty [Hyeris] X-mas 1888' and is emblazoned with 'Dora' on the front cover.

The diary contains just one entry from 1 January 1888.

Photocopy of a fragment of a letter from William Parkinson in Widnes, Lancashire, to his cousin, John Monaghan, in Michigan, introducing himself and his family, and asks after news of their aunts in common, Judy Duwan (nee Monaghan) Bridget Harrison (née Monaghan), all of whom had emigrated to America, and where he would like to emigrate to in the future.

Photocopy of letter from William Parkinson, Widnes, Lancashire, England to his cousin John Monaghan, thanking John for his letter and remarking that he had found his address in an old book of his father's, and remembers the correspondence of the previous generation. He asks after the Herrig and Dewan families originally from Cloghan who had emigrated many years previously. Repeats his intention to move to America and asks for assistance.

Letter from Elias William Kerr in Dorchester, Dorset, England, to his brother-in-law William Lamb at 31 Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, County Dublin, regarding the death of his father, William Pattison Kerr.

Drawing of a lake and mountain landscape done in pencil by William Lamb, held in an envelope from the Physiological Laboratory of Owens College, Manchester.

Letter from Frances Cashel Hoey at 17 Capden Hill Road, Kensington, London, to her sister-in-law Maria Blanche Plunkett-Johnston at 54 Wellington Road, Ballsbridge, County Dublin.

Letter from H Kirkham, Honored Secretary of the "Orpheus" Relief Fund in Portsmouth, Hampshire, to Reverend Abraham Stritch Fuller at Saint Marks, Dublin, County Dublin. Enclosed is a bank draft for £42.11.0 for Mrs Moore, wife of the late John Moore, and their two children, Henry and John Moore.

Letter from Constance Lamb at Woodfield, Clara, County Offaly, to her husband Francis William Lamb at The University of Manchester, Manchester, England.

Letter from Constance Plunkett-Johnston at Rockfield, Moate, County Westmeath, to Francis William Lamb at 5 Lautti Terrace, Dorchester, Dorset, England.