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Eight letters from Ann Kerr at the Vicarage, Sydling, Dorset, to her daughter Alice Ann Lamb.

Glass plate daguerreotype photographs of the Fuller family and their friends.

Research on Clonmacnoise Church, Co. Offaly (Parish of Clonmacnoise, Barony of Garrycastle). County Inventory Registration: 641.
Contains field sheet and nine photographs.

Loose bundle of account sheets with general accounts, wage deductions, rental and forestry incomes.

Original incoming and copy outgoing correspondence concerning aspects of estate management undertaken by A. & L. Goodbody, solicitors on behalf of Lord Digby, such as rent collection, timber sales, illegal timber cutting on the estate, the terminal illness of Edward Nesbitt (estate bailiff), fishery rights on the Erne and the Moy, and sporting rights over the lands of Geashilll granted to Lord Digby and his father for life by the tenants.

Includes copy letter from Goodbody to Digby concerning fishery rights: '...As to the possibility of future legislation here. Well nothing that the [Salmon Fisheries] Association can do will stop the Government if they want to pass legislation. Strong opposition was put up about the ridiculous Irish language movement without any effect whatever. The idealists seem to get it all their own way and the opposition had not the courage to speak out their mind or vote as their conscience tells them they should vote, so they appear to have stayed away in the Senate instead of voting against it.' (8 May 1929)

2 copies of corrective account of property for Estate Duty on the death of Edward Henry Trafalgar Baron Digby recording the overpayment of estate duty by A&L Goodbody.

Research on Aghadouglas Tower House, Co. Offaly (Parish of Ettagh, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 821.
Contains field sheet with details to level of preservation, nature of surviving structures and walls. Incl. a sketch of the site, a written report over three pages and seven photographs.

Research on Aghadouglas Church Site, Co. Offaly (Parish of Ettagh, Barony of Clonlisk). County Inventory Registration: 613.
Contains field sheet with a written report over one page and three photographs.

Rental accounts and receiver accounts associated with the 4th Earl of Charleville, Charles William Francis Bury (1852-1874). The final rental account is dated to the day of his death on 3 November 1874.

Rental of Charleville 1848 onwards (1848-1956)
Rental and Receivers Account (1849)
Receivers Account for Francis Berry (1852)
Rental Account of the estates of the Earl of Charleville (1853)
Rental Account of the estates of the Earl of Charleville (1854)
2 copies of Rental Account of the estates of the Earl of Charleville (1855)
Rental Account of the estates of the Earl of Charleville (1856)
Rental Account of the estates of the Earl of Charleville (1858)
Copy of Rental Account of the estates of the Earl of Charleville up to 3 November 1874 (1874)

Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating a grant claim for Geashill Castle after its destruction. Includes a copy of the brief for counsel for the claim of £19,614.17 for Geashill Castles and its contents (1923); evaluation of three elk horns destroyed in the fire;
letter from Lord Digby to Goodbody Solicitors, Dorset "I must congratulate you once more for the very successful result of your hard work in relation to this claim, and I know what a difficult case it must have been for you to get a satisfactory settlement. I think you ought to know how very please I am over the way the case was conducted" (22 February 1926); letter from the Ministery of Finance details that "under the Malicious Injury Act you are entitle in this case to £1635 in clash, and £1100 in Bonds - total £2735" (19 February 1926).