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Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of a letter from Eileen Muriel Tobias at 2 Eglinton Park, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, to her sister Mabel Smith. She writes of her recent drive through County Meath and seeing the excavation in Dowth and New Grange, and her stop in Monasterboice to see the stone high-cross there. She also includes an update on the activities of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Documents relating to the retirement ceremony of John Rice Lamb, Governor of Smithfield Convict Prison. Contains: draft of John Rice Lamb's acceptance speech; receipt from West and Son to Francis Good for an engraved silver tea service; clipping of the presentation address and testimonial silver tea service presented by deputation to John Rice Lamb; testimonial to John Lamb.
Correspondence between Mary Lamb at 31 Grosvenor Street, Dublin, to Hennie G Bolgel at 9 Churchill Terrace, Ballsbridge, Dublin, regarding the history of the Lamb family.
Clipping of the obituary of Mrs Catherine Downes (d. 1887) from the Irish Times, and a clipping of the obituary of Margaret Lamb (d. 1888) from the Daily Express, both pasted on a sheet of paper by Francis William Lamb.
Letter from John Rice Lamb at Marietta, Kingstown, to his half-brother Francis Lamb, regarding the whereabouts of their children: William Lamb, Mary Lamb, and John Alexander Lamb.
Poem entitled, "Air from the "Maid and the Magpie" by Henry Bird of the Monaghan Regiment, written in May 1860. Below the poem is a telegram from Tom Costello in Clara, King's County (County Offaly), to the Lamb family in Cardiff, notifying them of the death of Anna Maria Fuller.
