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Reply from one of his cardinals granting a privileged altar to St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, Tullamore, Ireland.

Vol 1 of two volume history 'The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment Royal Canadians' by Lieut-Col F. E. Whittington, CM G (1924).

This volume contains press cuttings, photographs and other memorabilia, some loose and others pasted in, as follows:

Theatre programme for Prince of Wales Theatre, Dinapore (1874)

Photograph of 'Jumbo', the panther mascot of the 109th Foot (Bombay Infantry) with Sgt. Major William C. Affleck (Farmer's uncle) in seated group portrait with five other infantry men and the panther.

Photograph of Sergeant Henry G. Farmer in uniform (1882)

Photograph of winning team at the Army Inter-regimental Rifle Match (Birr Barracks) with Sgt Farmer identified. Verso contains cutting from King's County Chronicle, 15 Apr. 1889 about the match, and caption identifying all team members in photograph (1889)

Colour photograph of the coffee bar of the Leinster Depot, Birr c. 1920. Note reads: The Coffee Bar was founded by my father in 1892, the funds for which were raised by concerts organised by him at which I played as a boy. H.G. F. ' (1920)

Rules of the Old Comrades' Association (1931)

Letters concerning the relocation of the Crinkle Bell to Australia with the monks of Mount St Joseph. (1954)

Photograph Old Comarades Association of the Leinster Regiment Annual Dinner, London,( May 1952)

Photograph of Annual Dinner Old Comrades of the Leinster Regiment, with Henry Farmer and his wife Gladys identified (1952).

Newspaper obits and memoriam cards for William Kerrigan. (1955)

Letter from John Walker, British Museum. thanking Henry for donating canteen tokens used in Birr Barracks in 1885. (1957)

Newspaper cutting on the unveiling of a commemorative window to the Leinster Regiment in St Brendan's RC Church, Birr (1964)

Postcard of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)

Presentment or 'Jobs' books belonging to James Franck Rolleston, Franckfort Castle, Dunkerrin, King's County. Complete for the years 1830 -1868, except for 1863, 1864 and 1865.

Contains schedules of presentments applied for and abstracts of presentments granted for the following sessions:

1. Lent Assizes, 1830
2. Summer Assizes, 1830
3. Lent Assizes, 1831
4. Summer Assizes, 1831
5. Lent Assizes, 1832
6. Summer Assizes, 1832
7. Lent Assizes, 1833
8. Summer Assizes, 1833

Each schedule individually inscribed and numbered by James Franck Rolleston and carries his book stamp or library plate 'J. F. R'. Annotated in parts.

Leather bound minute book of the King’s County Infirmary board of management meetings. Minutes contain the proceedings of meetings such as the overview of the patient admissions and discharges, suppliers of provisions and statements of accounts. Records decisions regarding the hiring and managing of staff, complaints, fees for patients, and building repairs and improvements. Includes occasional notes on specific patients and transcription of correspondence to various bodies including the County Council and notes of thanks to various donors such as the Countess of Rosse from 1895-1905. Other items discussed were the implementation of a new surgical theatre in 1909 and a tuberculosis sanitorium in 1913.

Prominent members of the Board include Rev. Graham Craig, Rev. Maxwell Coote, Reginald Digby, Joshua C Goodbody, J Perry Goodbody, Lewis Goodbody, John Tarleton, Henry Egan, Rev. P Callery, and Rev R.S. Craig, Dr George Ridley. Registrar: Hugh T Love

The first entry in the minute book records a special meeting of the governors in which they appoint a new surgeon to the infirmary following the death of Dr James Ridley. Ridley who also acted as the Tullamore Jail Physician was reported to have died by suicide on the morning he was due to give evidence in court regarding the harsh treatment of John Mandeville, a national league activist who was imprisoned under the Irish Crimes Act in 1887.

A meeting in February 1900 discussed the dismissal of two servants and the cook for gross misconduct after admitting two male patients to their bedroom.

The hospital surgeon Dr Meagher (appointed in 1906 following the death of Dr George Ridley) served in the Royal Medical Corp during WW1 between 1914-1915.

Permission notes issued by Sergeant H. W. Crane, The Barracks, Tullamore, to Joseph Larkin, Francis Slattery and J. M. O'Brennan, granting them the right to play handball in Barrack Alley on weekdays. Also includes a cover note from Crane to O'Brennan regretting that he cannot extend to permission to to play on Sundays.

Postcard from Doctor Fritz Erwin Lowenstein, the biographer of George Bernard Shaw, to Constance Lamb, written on George Bernard Shaw's stationary, requesting written and photographic material on the Shaw family.

Note which references Pentros Castle.

Letter from Keith Lamb at Ballykilty, Malahide, County Dublin, to his brother Adam Lamb regarding the Fuller family silver cake basket.