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Minute book recording the decisions taken at general and executive meetings of the Offaly Farming and Industrial Society, mainly relating to the society's financial position and the hosting of the Tullamore Agricultural and Industrial Show. Includes minutes of discussions surrounding the taking over by the society of the cricket club field at Spollanstown for use as a show ground, and subsequent negotiations with Tullamore GAA who requested that the field be used for matches and training (1924). Also records later proposals to sell the field to the combined Tullamore Association Football and Rugby Clubs (1944).

Letter from Oliver St John Gogarty at 15 Ely Place, Dublin, to his friend Doctor Francis William Lamb.

Letter from JR Cresswell, Solicitor at 69 and 70 Dame Street, Dublin, County Dublin, to Francis William Lamb at The University, Manchester, regarding his daughter Alice Lamb's stock.

Letter from Richard Walker of Samuel and Richard C Walker and Son Solicitors, 86 Merrion Square, Dublin, County Dublin, to Doctor Francis William Lamb at The Medical School, The University, Manchester, regarding Eva Sedore's share in the Will of Mister Abraham Augustus Fuller.

Vol 2 of two volume history 'The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment Royal Canadians' by Lieut-Col F. E. Whittington, CM G (1924).

Volume contains cuttings, photographs and other memorabilia, some loose and others pasted in, as follows:

Invitation to Henry George Farmer to the unveiling ceremony of a stained glass memorial window to all ranks of the Regiment in St Brendan's Roman Catholic Church, Birr (1964).

Letter from P McEnroy, Lieut-Col of the Leinster Regiment (1964)

Cutting from Midland Tribune re memorial window (1964)

Offaly County Board of Health Bank Pass Book mainly recording payments to staff. The volume records the following details:

Date of payment/lodgement

Expenditure/Receipt

No. of paying order

Home Assistance Account

Ordinary Account

Rentals are arranged by townland and then by tenant's name, recording observations, charges, arrears and gale day payments. Arranged alphabetically by townland from Amore to Tullamore.

Book of Mass intentions received at Tullabeg. Each page records the number of intentions, who they were received and satisfied by, and the amount of money donated.

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)