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Account book used to record egg butter and rhubarb numbers and prices.

Bundle of miscellaneous personal items including an invitation from the Lord Chamberlain to Theodora Trench to an afternoon party at the Vice Regal Lodge; an Invitation from the chairman and members of The Mainie Jellet Committee to the opening of The Mainie Jellett Exhibition in the municipal gallery of modern art, Parnell square on the 26 July 1962; certificates of registration, letters, pedigrees and articles relating to dogs; and the annual report of The Nursery Rescue and Protestant Children's Aid Society'.

Invitation to the celebration of the bicentenary of Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Lord Bloomfield. Included in the invitation is a timeline of significant events in Benjamin Bloomfield's life.

Notebook containing lists of groceries ordered.

Photocopy of Loughton guest book.
The guest book contains a brief history of the house and of the Trench and Atkinson families possibly written by Theodora Trench and completed by Guy Atkinson after her death.
'Loughton was built in 1777. The library was the dinning room & the hall the dining room, the entrance was on the north side, where the present straircase is. Lord Bloomfield added the present drawing and dinning room & improved the place about 1835.
Loughton is said to have belonged to the Peppers from Cromwell's time till 1828, when Thomas Ryder Pepper was killed out hunting, aged about 50. He had neither brother nor child, he was married to Miss Bloomfield & left a request in his will, that his brother-in-law Lord Bloomfield should buy Loughton for a certain sum which he did. The 2nd Lord Bloomfield sold Loughton to his brother-in-law, Mr Trench of Cangort Park in 1870. W T. Trench lived at Loughton 1877 till 1889. B.B.T & D.T first went there in 1890, & bought it in 1893. DT died in 1898 and BBT in 1926. Thora Trench lived on here until joined by her sister Sheelah in 1961. Thora died in 1971 and Sheelah in 1973. Guy Atkinson inherited Loughton in 1970 and it was looked after his parents Anthony and Anne until he moved here in 1975.'

Notebooks owned by Benjamin Bloomfield Trench containing educational notes.

Document which describes how Henriette Parker's fortune was to be divided upon her death.

Henriette Parker was Christopher Turnor's sister and Dora Trench's aunt. As such Dora's family members received shares in her fortune once she passed away.

Childhood diary belonging to Theodora Trench. The diary dates from the year of her mother Dora's death and as such much of the diary is concerned with this loss.

Regarding her mother eight year old Theodora writes ''Mother's book, mother's birthe (sic) 27th August Mother's last present to Sheelah a book called Robin food. Mother's last present to Thora a child's bible. Mother died Apreal (sic) 7th 1899. The things which mother gave me to work basket a braslet (sic), and a lot moor (sic) things.'

List of protestant children on the rolls of Cangort Park National School.
The list states that one point there were 23 children registered. However this had been reduced to 12 as a number of them were absent for 13 weeks or more.

Blank diary from the New Zealand Shipping Company sent to Theodora Trench. The diary was sent as a new years gift to soliders and service staff during World War One.