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File of diaries belonging to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench. The file contains diaries for the years 1868, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875 and 1876.

Benjamin used these diaries to record appointments, social gatherings and the weather.

Two diaries which belonged to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench. The diaries were used to record appointments, social gatherings and the weather.

By 1926 Benjamin grew too ill continue to too ill to continue his diary. The entry regarding his death on 24 January 1926 has been written by another hand.

Three personal cash books belonging to Benjamin Bloomfield Trench which record his monthly spending habits.

File of professional photographic portraits of Benjamin Bloomfield, Dora, Sheelah and Theodora Trench. This file includes three copies of a photograph of Dora Turnor and her sister Bertha Turnor. Examples of photographs within the file include portrait of Benjamin Bloomfield Trench and of Dora Trench taken in South Africa, childhood photographs of Dora Turnor, childhood photographs of Sheelah Trench and a photograph of Theodora Trench in her voluntary aid detachment uniform.
Also included in this file are two photographs of a young woman and a child. The young woman in the photos is possibly Dora Trench as indicated by a small note on one of the photos.

Letters to the Rector at Tullabeg relating to bequests to the Jesuit community by Reverend James Daly, Christine Chicester, James Kenny, Katie Coughlan, Joseph Guinan Mary Josephine McCann and others. Also includes note regarding the bequest of books to the library at Tullabeg by Monsignor Thomas Langan.

Letters sent by Bertha Turnor to Dora Trench regarding her life in Bolingbroke and Branscombe, Australia.
She discusses topics such as educating children, making Kangaroo soup, the guests who pass through her home, white ants eating the school books, moving in with the Davidson family, her trips to the sugar field with Mr. Davidson and the extreme weather.

File of letters from Bertha Turnor to Dora Trench. The letters are written from Mexico and the United States.
In the letters Bertha discusses her travels around Mexico to places such as Puebla and Merida. She states her delight at visiting a place free from tourists yet also expresses her disappointment with the poverty and sub-par facilities she encountered.

During 1894 and 1895 Bertha visited North America and Cuba, this file contains the letters she sent to her sister Dora Trench during this time.

In a letter dated 4 November 1894 she writes about Niagra falls,' Friday was a glorious day day, warm & bright. I spent all of it sitting in the sun, looking at the Falls from various points of view. I was not disappointed in them. They are grand in spite of everything having been done to spoil the place. There are great factories close by, worked by the water, the banks are linded with lifts & railways of all sorts to pull you up & down. You are pursued by guides & drivers & men selling shell boxes, photos & mugs with "Niagara" on there, as mementos & a huge advertisement of "Carters little Liver pills" is just above one fall!..'

She also writes of her disappointment with Cuba, ' ... I am much disappointed in Havana. There is nothing to remind one, one is in the tropics except the heat. It is just like Marseilles are one of the Sout European towns the same narrow ill paved streets, & the same street houses with the plaster peeling of & muels with bells and tassels, only there are no beautiful mountains & no interesting buildings & hardly any trees, which most tropical towns have...'

This file contains readings and writings of a religious nature.
The file includes a copy of the Bible, a leaflet titled 'A form of thanksgiving and prayer' and 'Specific Unbelief: England's greatest sin'.
Copy of St.Paul's Onslow square Hymns for use during the time of war.