Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann

National Library of Ireland

Collection List No. 126

MMaayyoo PPaappeerrss

[MS 11,017-11,043; 11,142-11,257; 11,926-11,931; 11,950-11,953; 43,816-43,888 MS L 118 & 119]

The correspondence and official papers of Richard Southwell Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, (1822-72), covering his political life as Chief Secretary for Ireland (1852, 1858-9 and 1866-8). Also contains some of his papers as Viceroy of India

(1868-72), as well as a small collection of personal papers.

Compiled by Stephen Ball, Ph.D., Temporary Cataloguer and Harriet Wheelock, Archival Studentship Holder, 2007.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................5 Biography...................................................................................................................5 Papers.........................................................................................................................6 Arrangement ..............................................................................................................7 Assessment.................................................................................................................7 Bibliography ..............................................................................................................7

I. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND ...8

I.i. General Correspondence ......................................................................................8 I.i.1. As MP for Kildare and Coleraine, 1847-57...................................................8 I.i.2. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1852.............................................................8 I.i.3. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1858.............................................................8 I.i.4. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1859.............................................................9 I.i.5. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, July-Dec. 1866 ............................................9

I.i.5.a. From correspondents A...........................................................................9 I.i.5.b. From correspondents B ..........................................................................9 I.i.5.c. From correspondents C.........................................................................10 I.i.5.d. From correspondents D and F ..............................................................12 I.i.5.e. From correspondents E .........................................................................13 I.i.5.f. From correspondents G.........................................................................13 I.i.5.g. From correspondents H ........................................................................14 I.i.5.h. From correspondents I..........................................................................16 I.i.5.i. From correspondents J...........................................................................16 I.i.5.j. From correspondents K .........................................................................17 I.i.5.k. From correspondents L.........................................................................17 I.i.5.l. From correspondents M.........................................................................19 I.i.5.m. From correspondents N .......................................................................21 I.i.5.n. From correspondents O ........................................................................22 I.i.5.o. From correspondents P and Q ..............................................................23 I.i.5.p. From correspondents R ........................................................................23 I.i.5.q. From correspondents S .........................................................................24 I.i.5.r. From correspondents T .........................................................................26 I.i.5.s. From correspondents U and V ..............................................................27 I.i.5.t. From correspondents W ........................................................................27

I.i.6. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1867...........................................................28 I.i.6.a. From correspondents A.........................................................................28 I.i.6.b. From correspondents B ........................................................................30 I.i.6.c. From correspondents C.........................................................................31 I.i.6.d. From correspondents D ........................................................................35 I.i.6.e. From correspondents E .........................................................................35 I.i.6.f. From correspondents F..........................................................................36 I.i.6.g. From correspondents G ........................................................................37 I.i.6.h. From correspondents H ........................................................................39 I.i.6.i. From correspondents I...........................................................................43 I.i.6.j. From correspondents J...........................................................................44 I.i.6.k. From correspondents K ........................................................................44 I.i.6.l. From correspondents L..........................................................................45 I.i.6.m. From correspondents M.......................................................................46

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I.i.6.n. From correspondents N-P.....................................................................47 I.i.6.o. From correspondents Q-R ....................................................................50 I.i.6.p. From correspondents S .........................................................................51 I.i.6.q. From correspondents T.........................................................................53 I.i.6.r. From correspondents U-V.....................................................................54 I.i.6.s. From correspondents W-Y....................................................................55

I.i.7. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1868...........................................................55 I.i.7.a. From correspondents A.........................................................................55 I.i.7.b. From correspondents B ........................................................................56 I.i.7.c. From correspondents C.........................................................................57 I.i.7.d. From correspondents D ........................................................................58 I.i.7.e. From correspondents E-F .....................................................................58 I.i.7.f. From correspondents G.........................................................................59 I.i.7.g. From correspondents H ........................................................................60 I.i.7.h. From correspondents I-K......................................................................60 I.i.7.i. From correspondents L..........................................................................61 I.i.7.j. From correspondents M.........................................................................62 I.i.7.k. From correspondents N-O ....................................................................62 I.i.7.l. From correspondents P-R......................................................................63 I.i.7.m. From correspondents S........................................................................64 I.i.7.n. From correspondents T.........................................................................65 I.i.7.m. From correspondents U-W ..................................................................65

I.ii. Individual correspondents .................................................................................66 I.ii.1. James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn later 1st Duke Abercorn ............66 I.ii.2. Abraham Brewster......................................................................................67 I.ii.3. Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglinton and 1st Earl Winton ..............68 I.ii.4. Sir Thomas Larcom....................................................................................69 I.ii.5. Thomas Edward Taylor ..............................................................................72 I.ii.6. Robert Richard Warren ..............................................................................73 I.ii.7. John Arthur Wynne ....................................................................................73 I.ii.8. Other politicians .........................................................................................74

I.iii. Letter registers and copy books........................................................................75 II. OFFICIAL PAPERS, CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND .......................75

II.i. Legislation.........................................................................................................75 II.i.1. Clerks of Petty Sessions Act, 1858 ............................................................75 II.i.2. Ecclesiastical Court and Registrars Bill, 1859...........................................76 II.i.3. Franchise Reform, 1865-8..........................................................................76 II.i.4. Land Reform, 1865-8 .................................................................................77 II.i.5. Disease Prevention Acts, 1866-68 .............................................................79 II.i.6. Closing of Public Houses on Sundays Bill, 1867 ......................................80 II.i.7. Curragh of Kildare Act, 1868.....................................................................80 II.i.8. Separation of parts of Belfast from county Down, 1868 ...........................80 II.i.9. Other Bills ..................................................................................................81

II.ii. Elections...........................................................................................................83 II.ii.1. County Kildare Election, 1848..................................................................83 II.ii.2. General Election, 1852..............................................................................83

II.ii.2.a. Police Reports ....................................................................................83 II.ii.2.b. Letters and Accounts..........................................................................85

II.ii.3. General Election, 1859..............................................................................86

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II.ii.4. Election Riots, 1866..................................................................................87 II.ii.5. By-elections, 1866 ....................................................................................87 II.ii.6. Cockermouth Elections, 1857-68..............................................................87

II.iii. Law and Order ................................................................................................88 II.iii.1. Law Officers and Courts..........................................................................88 II.iii.2. Legal Cases ..............................................................................................88 II.iii.3. Riots and Party Processions .....................................................................89 II.iii.4. Police........................................................................................................90 II.iii.5. Prisons......................................................................................................90 II.iii.6. Magistracy................................................................................................91

II.iv. Social Policy....................................................................................................91 II.iv.1. Poor Law ..................................................................................................91 II.iv.2. Lunatic Asylums and Dispensaries ..........................................................92 II.iv.3. Condition of Ireland, 1852 and 1867 .......................................................93 II.iv.4. Conditions in the West of Ireland, 1867 ..................................................93

II.v. Education..........................................................................................................95 II.v.1. National Education Committee .................................................................95 II.v.2. Universities................................................................................................97 II.v.3. Other issues ...............................................................................................98

II.vi. Church affairs..................................................................................................99 II.vi.1. Appointment.............................................................................................99 II.vi.2. Established Church Commission .............................................................99

II.vii. Civil Engineering .........................................................................................100 II.vii.1. Development of Harbours.....................................................................100 II.vii.2. Irish Railways .......................................................................................101

II.viii. Agriculture ..................................................................................................102 II.ix. Fisheries ........................................................................................................104 II.x. Government Departments ..............................................................................105

II.x.1. Public Records Office .............................................................................105 II.x.2. Proposed Department of Science and Art ...............................................106 II.x.3. Other Departments ..................................................................................106

II.xi . Applications and appointment to Posts ........................................................107 II.xii. Irish Nationalism..........................................................................................110

II.xii.1. The Phoenix Society .............................................................................110 II.xii.2. Fenianism..............................................................................................110

II.xii.2.a. Reports and Memoranda ................................................................110 II.xii.2.b. Correspondences ............................................................................116 II.xii.2.c. Telegrams .......................................................................................119

II.x.iii. Miscellaneous Papers.................................................................................120 III. OFFICAL PAPERS, VICEROY OF INDIA ..................................................120 IV. PERSONAL PAPERS.......................................................................................121

IV.i. Personal correspondents of Richard Bourke .................................................121 IV.ii. Personal correspondents of other members of the Bourke family ...............122 IV.iii. Financial papers...........................................................................................122 IV.iv. Wills and Agreements .................................................................................122 IV.v. Miscellaneous papers....................................................................................123

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INTRODUCTION

Biography Richard Southwell Bourke was born on 21st February 1822 the eldest son of Robert Bourke and Anne Charlotte Jocelyn. He was educated at home in Hayes, county Meath until entering Trinity College, Dublin in 1841. After taking his degree he travelled in Russia, publishing an account of his tour; St. Petersburg and Moscow: a Visit to the Court of the Czar (1846). He married Blanche Julia Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield in 1848. They had four sons and three daughters. In 1849 Robert Bourke inherited the Earldom of Mayo from his uncle John Bourke, 4th Earl Mayo and, as the eldest son, Richard assumed the courtesy title Lord Naas. Richard Bourke was active in famine relief in Ireland in 1847 and entered parliament as a conservative MP for county Kildare, which seat he held until 1852. He sat for Coleraine (1852-7) and Cockermouth (1857-68). In 1852 he was appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland in the administration of Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby, although he only held the post for a matter of months before the governments collapse in December 1852. On the return of the Conservatives to power in 1858 Naas reassumed his position as Chief Secretary, and held the same position in the subsequent Conservative administration (1866-8). Naas also managed the Conservative party within Ireland, and was largely responsible for there success in the 1850s and 1860s. As Chief Secretary Naas was described as efficient, loyal and dedicated. His tenure as Chief Secretary covered some of the most important issues in mid-nineteenth century Irish politics, and he showed himself amenable to situations as they arose. Initially opposing the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, his views become less sectarian. Similarly with land reform, he came to support compensation for tenants for improvement made without their landlord’s consent. He was, however, firm in his handling of the Fenian crisis in the late 1860s. In 1868 on the death of his father, Naas succeeded to the Earldom of Mayo as the 6th Earl. Benjamin Disraeli selected him as Viceroy of India, a position he had long converted, and he was sworn in Calcutta in January 1869. As Viceroy he aimed to create a strong India by creating a cordon of friendly independent states outside the borders, and by securing the support of Indian princes. Internally he aimed to reduce mismanagement and improve the conditions and education of the population but with no idea of the possibility of any form of self-government for India. He worked extremely hard to obtain knowledge of India from junior officials upwards, and undertook long tours to secure first-hand knowledge. However, by 1870 dissatisfaction was growing with India, from rising income tax and within the religious minority Muslim and Sikh communities. In February 1872 Mayo was assassinated by a Muslim convict, as he inspected the penal colony of the Andaman Islands. His body was returned to Ireland and buried in Johnstown church, county Kildare.

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Papers This collection was acquired by the National Library of Ireland as a gift from the Hon. Bryan Bourke (third son of Walter Bourke, 8th Earl Mayo) in 1938, see Report of the Trustees of the National Library of Ireland, 1838-9.. The collection is principally comprised of official papers including correspondence, memorandum, reports and drafts of bills. There is also a very small collection of personal papers. The papers covers the period 1846-1873, with one document from 1795. The collection is contained within 96 boxes, with two outsized folders. The papers are generally in good condition. However, there are number of papers, mainly correspondence from the year 1867, which have been badly water damaged. This has cause the paper to become fragile and the writing unclear. In some cases the material is so badly damaged that it is not available for consultation. Because the Library received this material in one large and complete donation there are only a handful of other items relating to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo within the library’s collection; these are listed below: MS 2,919-2,922 Family papers of the Bourke family, Earls of Mayo

1612 – 19th century MS 18,513 Letters of Francis B. Head mainly to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas

relating to the use of constabulary reports in Head’s book A Fortnight in Ireland; 15 items

Sep. – Oct. 1852 D.27,445-27,456 Deeds correspondents, legal and miscellaneous papers relating to

Robert Bourke, 5th Earl Mayo, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo and Dermot Burke, 7th Earl Mayo; c.65 items

1853-1931 MS 9,097-9,098 Petition of inhabitants of parishes in Connemara to Richard

Bourke, Lord Naas, concerning the erection of a causeway on Lough Corrib

1867 GO MS 153 Copies of warrant for investing Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo,

with the insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick, at Calcutta; pp.16-7 1868 MS 9,093-9,096 Addresses presented to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Viceroy of

India c.1869 MS 5,167 In memorandum of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo assassinated in

India 1872

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Arrangement The majority of this collection had previously been assigned manuscript numbers and a brief descriptions for listing in Hayes’ Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation (1965). However, when this listing was done 22 boxes were overlooked. These have now been catalogued and are available for consultation for the first time. For the majority this list follows the arrangement in Hayes, although where appropriate alterations have been made, as this list provides much greater detail. The previously overlooked material has been fitted into this structure, as it was of the same type. The papers have been arranged into four subgroups; the first containing official correspondence as Chief Secretary for Ireland, the second official papers as Chief Secretary for Ireland, the third papers as Viceroy of India and the fourth personal papers. Within each subgroup the papers have been separated by type or theme, and then arranged chronologically. Assessment The Mayo papers are an extensive and important collection covering in detail the period of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo’s involvement in Irish political life. This cover the eventful years on the 1850s and 1860s, and the papers deal with issues of land reform, church reform, Fenianism, Phoenix societies, popular unrest and the condition of Ireland. In addition they also provide information on the administration of Ireland, notably the appointment to public service posts and the creation of the new Public Records Office (1866-8). Although the collection contains a huge amount of letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo there are few copies of letters from him. However, his correspondence with several important political figures are held in the collections of other institutions. There is a very limited amount of papers relating to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo’s time as Viceroy of India, as his Viceregal papers were deposited with Cambridge University Library. Equally there are very few personal papers or letters within the collection. Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo’s correspondence with his wife, Blanche Bourke neé Wyndham, Lady Mayo is also held by the Cambridge University Library. Bibliography Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage

Gopal, S. ‘Richard Southwell Bourke, 6 th Earl Mayo’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004) www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2998

Hayes, Richard Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation (1965). Hayes, Richard Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation, First

Supplement 1965-1975 (1975). Report of the Council of Trustees of the National Library of Ireland, 1838-9

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I. OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND

I.i. General Correspondence This section contains the general correspondence of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo in his political life between 1847-68. The majority comes from his periods in office as Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1852, 1858-9, and 1866-8. The material has been divided by year, for each year the correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order of correspondent, and then month.

I.i.1. As MP for Kildare and Coleraine, 1847-57 MS 11,017 /1-15

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas as MP for Kildare (1847-52) and Coleraine (1852-7) on Irish affairs; c.140 items in 15 folders 1847-57

I.i.2. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1852 MS 11,018 /1-47 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas as Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents A-D; c.900 items in 47 folders 1852

MS 11,019 /1-33

From correspondents E-L; c.600 items in 33 folders 1852

MS 11,020 /1-40

From correspondents M-W; c.700 items in 40 folders 1852

I.i.3. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1858 MS 11,021 / 1-45

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas as Chief Secretary for Ireland from correspondents A-C; c.800 items in 45 folders 1858

MS 11,022 /1-38

From correspondents D-G; c.600 items in 38 folders 1858

MS 11,023 /1-28

From correspondents H-L; c.400 items in 28 folders 1858

MS 11,024 /1-40

From correspondents M-Y; c.630 items in 40 folders 1858 [MS 11,024 /34 missing]

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I.i.4. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1859

MS 11,025 /1-35

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas as Chief Secretary for Ireland from correspondents A-D; c.650 items in 35 folders 1859

MS 11,026 /1-35

From correspondents E-K; c.400 items in 35 folders 1859

MS 11,027 /1-31

From correspondents L-W; c.520 items in 31 folders 1859

I.i.5. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, July-Dec. 1866

I.i.5.a. From correspondents A Includes letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo from James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. MS 11,142 /1-3 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents A; 28 items in 3 folders July 1866

MS 11,142 /4-6 From correspondents A; 27 items in 3 folders Aug. 1866

MS 11,142 /7-8 From correspondents A; 14 items in 2 folders Sep. 1866

MS 11,142 /9-11 From correspondents A; 29 items in 3 folders Oct. 1866

MS 11,142 /12-13

From correspondents A; 22 items in 2 folders Nov. 1866

MS 11,142 /14-16

From correspondents A; 30 items in 3 folders Dec. 1866

I.i.5.b. From correspondents B MS 11,143 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents B; 6 items June 1866

MS 11,143 /2-7 From correspondents B; 68 items in 6 folders

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July 1866

MS 11,143 /8-15 From correspondents B; c.110 items in 8 folders Aug. 1866 [some items are damaged]

MS 11,143 /16-18

From correspondents B; 56 items in 3 folders Sep. 1866

MS 11,143 /19-23

From correspondents B; c.100 items in 5 folders Oct. 1866

MS 11,143 /24-6 From correspondents B; 58 items in 3 folders Nov. 1866

MS 11,143 /27-8 From correspondents B; 53 items in 2 folders Dec. 1866

I.i.5.c. From correspondents C MS 43,816 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents C, includes Thomas Connolly MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Thomas Cranfield, Edward Croker, Thomas Carson, and Georgiana Croker. Subjects include legislation concerning charities, Clongowes Wood College, the Prisons Bill, a tax on dogs, and applications for government posts; 21 items July 1866

MS 43,816 /2 From correspondents C, includes Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess Clanricarde, Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock, James Stopford, 5th Earl Courtown, Sir Hugh Cairns MP (Attorney General for Ireland), Thomas Connolly MP, and Edward Cooper MP. Subjects include the Fishery Commission, the bishopric of Meath, the Belgrave Mansions Company, and applications for government posts; 21 items July 1866

MS 43,816 /3 From correspondents C, includes Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess Clanricarde, John Henry Scott, 4th Earl Clonmell, Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, 2nd Viscount Combermere, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Edward Cooper MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Thomas Connolly MP, Frederick Cavendish, Colonel Curzon, and Richard Clement. Subjects include gunpowder stores, vacant post offices, Omagh Lunatic Asylum, and applications for government posts; 43 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,816 /4 From correspondents C, includes George Coventry, 9th Earl

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Coventry, Richard Hancock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine, James Stopford, 5th Earl Courtown, Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Thomas Connolly MP, Edward Cooper MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Richard Chaloner, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the importation of clothes, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 36 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,816 /5 From correspondents C, includes James Stopford, 5th Earl Courtown, Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Thomas Connolly MP, Richard Chaloner, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Belgrave Mansions Company, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 39 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,817 /1 From correspondents C, includes John Henry Scott, 4th Earl Clonmell, Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Edward Cooper MP, Richard Chaloner, Pierce Creagh, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Tipperary election, the Royal Dublin Society, convict prisons, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 34 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,817 /2 From correspondents C, includes Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford (Lord Chancellor of England), Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, William Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl Clancarty, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, George Clive MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Thomas Connolly MP, and Richard Clement. Subjects include misconduct by magistrates, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 30 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,817 /3 From correspondents C, includes Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Thomas Connolly MP, Sir James Chatterton, James Cole, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the bishopric of Tuam, the Curragh of Kildare, the solicitor general ship, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 29 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,817 /4 From correspondents C, includes Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Henry Chaplin, Edward Cooper MP, Walter Crofton, Pierce Creagh and Richard Clement. Subjects include racehorses, life-sentenced convicts, Tulla Poor Law Union, and applications for government posts; 19 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,817 /5 From correspondents C, includes James Stopford, 5th Earl Courtown, Richard Hancock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine, Eyre

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Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Thomas Connolly MP, Lord Charles Pelham-Clinton MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Henry Arthur Cole MP, Edward Cooper MP, John Cappage, and Richard Clement. Subjects include Wexford Lunatic Asylum, Fenianism, arms licenses, racehorses, loyalism in Dublin, and applications for government posts; 26 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,817 /6 From correspondents C, includes Robert Shapland Carew, 2nd Baron Carew, Lady Anne Clonmell, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Henry Arthur Cole MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Edward Cooper MP, Colonel Curzon, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the stationing of troops, a loyalist address, railways, and applications for government posts; 31 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,817 /7 From correspondents C, includes John Henry Scott, 4th Earl Clonmell, Sir Hugh Cairns MP, Corry Connellan, Robert Carew, William Carleton, and Richard Clement. Subjects include prisons, the Waterford election, the stationing of troops, weights and measures, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 25 items Dec. 1866

I.i.5.d. From correspondents D and F MS 11,144 /1-2 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents D and F; 52 items in 2 folders June-July 1886

MS 11,144 /3-4 From correspondents D and F; c.80 items in 2 folders Aug. 1866

MS 11,144 /5-6 From correspondents D and F; 48 items in 2 folders Sep. 1866

MS 11,144 /7-8 From correspondents D and F; c.90 items in 2 folders Oct. 1866

MS 11,144 /9-10 From correspondents D and F; c.60 items in 2 folders Nov. 1866

MS 11,144 /11-12

From correspondents D and F; 83 items in 2 folders Dec. 1866

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I.i.5.e. From correspondents E MS 43,818 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents E, includes William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen, George Ensor, Captain Walling Everard, James Eames, Rev. R.B. Eyre, and R.G. Evans. Subjects include the Lord Lieutenant’s Levee, an Orange demonstration at Ballykilbeg, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and applications for church livings and government posts; 30 items July-Aug. 1866

MS 43,818 /2 From correspondents E, includes William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen, Charles Eccles, G.L. Echlin, Joseph Edmundson, Rev. R.B. Eyre, Mary Anne Evatt, and H.G. Evans. Subjects include lunatic asylums, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 33 items Sep.-Oct. 1866

MS 43,818 /3 From correspondents E, includes William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl Enniskillen, Ralph Anstruther Earle MP, Captain Walling Everard, W.C. Eades, and R.G. Evans. Subjects include Sligo Diocesan School, Ballymoney rectory, the stationing of troops at Mullingar, and applications for government posts; 23 items Nov.-Dec. 1866

I.i.5.f. From correspondents G MS 11,145 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland from correspondents G; 44 items July 1866

MS 11,145 /2 From correspondents G; 63 items Aug. 1866

MS 11,145 /3 From correspondents G; 32 items Sep. 1866

MS 11,145 /4-5 From correspondents G; c.80 items in 2 folders Oct. 1866

MS 11,145 /6 From correspondents G; 22 items Nov. 1866

MS 11,145 /7 From Correspondents G; 29 items Dec. 1866

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I.i.5.g. From correspondents H

MS 43,819 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Lord George Hamilton MP, William Hodgson MP, George Hunt MP (Financial Secretary to Treasury), Sir Thomas Hesketh, George Alexander Hamilton MP (Assistant Secretary to Treasury), and T.H. Hardinge. Subjects include Irish legislation, horse breeding, the monetary crisis, and applications for government posts; 21 items July 1866

MS 43,819 /2 From correspondents H, includes Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Henry Herbert, George Handcock, and J.R. Herbert. Subjects include church affairs, railways, Fenianism, the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, the resignation of Sir Joseph Napier, and applications for government posts; 27 items July 1866

MS 43,819 /3 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Thomas Horsfall MP, John Pope Hennessy, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Thomas Rice Hearn, and Joseph Hayes. Subjects include cattle plague, the dismissal of R.D. Coulson RM, poor rate collectors, and applications for government posts; 27 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,819 /4 From correspondents H, includes Lord George Hill, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Gathorne Hardy MP (President of the Poor Law Board), George Alexander Hamilton MP, Alexander Henderson and Samuel Harman. Subjects include a parliamentary candidate for Wexford, the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, the Curragh, and applications for government posts; 25 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,819 /5 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, George Ponsonby O’Callaghan, 2nd Viscount Lismore, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, George Alexander Hamilton MP, George Hore, and George Hervey. Subjects include Londonderry magistrates, the state of Ireland, the Master of the Rolls, and applications for government posts; 40 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,820 /1 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, John Pope Hennessy,

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George Alexander Hamilton MP, and Emma Hudson. Subjects include cattle plague in France, post offices, the Limerick Harbour and Bridge debt, the Public Record Office of Ireland, and applications for government posts; 17 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,820 /2 From correspondents H, includes Ion Trant Hamilton MP, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Ambrose Hunt, Sackville Hamilton, John Higgins, and Joseph Hayes. Subjects include Limerick Bridge and Harbour, petty sessions clerks, Irish Church Missions, and applications for government posts; 21 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,820 /3 From correspondents H, includes Viscount James Hamilton MP, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Frederick Charles Hamilton, and Emma Hudson. Subjects include the Prince of Wales, church affairs, Fenian prisoners, Limerick Harbour and Bridge, and applications for government posts; 20 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,820 /4 From correspondents H, includes Viscount James Hamilton MP, Gathorne Hardy MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, William Hodgson MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, John Pope Hennessy, George Hervey, and Philip Hayes. Subjects include Haldane Hall, the Wexford election, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 32 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,820 /5 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Admiral Hamilton, Michael Hassard, George Hervey, and Joseph Hayes. Subjects include the Waterford election, sea and coast defences, Ulster politics, and applications for government posts; 42 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,820 /6 From correspondents H, includes Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Hon. L. King-Harman, Colonel G. Haly, George Hervey, and John Hanlon. Subjects include burial grounds, the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, artists’ pensions, the arming of the Irish Constabulary, and applications for government posts; 32 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,820 /7 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Mitchell Henry, Rev. Hugh Hanna, and George Hervey. Subjects include the Royal Hibernian Academy, the importation

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of arms, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 26 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,820 /8 From correspondents H, includes Sir Frederic Heygate MP, George Hunt MP, George Hervey, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Samuel Hemphill, J. Bagge Hearn, and Dr. D.W. Hemphill. Subjects include national produce statistics, Drogheda Harbour Commissioners, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and applications for government posts; 25 items Dec. 1866

I.i.5.h. From correspondents I MS 43,821 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents I, includes Lucius O’Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre, John Irwin, James Isdall, and Walwyn Iles. Subjects include applications for government posts; 22 items July-Sep. 1866

MS 43,821 /2 From correspondents I, include Lucius O’Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin, Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre, Arthur Innes MP, George O’Malley Irwin, John Ivers, Elizabeth Inglis, Henry Irving, John Irwin, and D. Innes. Subjects include the Palmerstown Horse Breeders Association, pawnbrokers license duty, the Irish Times, public petitions, and applications for government posts; 24 items Sep.-Dec. 1866

I.i.5.i. From correspondents J MS 43,822 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents J, includes Edward Johnston, Dr. Benjamin Johnston, William Johnstone, Strange Jocelyn, Rev. Evans Johnson, and Robert Jackson. Subjects include Irish railway reform, the death of the Bishop of Meath, Cork Farmers Club, Fenianism, the Orange Order, and government posts; 23 items July-Sep. 1866

MS 43,822 /2 From correspondents J, includes Edward Johnston, William Journeaux, Strange Jocelyn, John Henry Jones, Frederick Johnston, Eliza Johnson, and Ellen Johnston. Subjects include Sligo Diocesan School and loyalist meetings; 25 items Oct.-Dec. 1866

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I.i.5.j. From correspondents K MS 43,823 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents K, includes William Stuart Knox MP, the Knight of Kerry, Robert Kennedy, John King, and B. Kernaghan. Subjects include the Trans-Atlantic cable, Irish railways, legislation for Ireland, and government posts; 15 items July 1866

MS 43,823 /2 From correspondents K, includes William Stuart Knox MP, William Kemmis, J. Arthur Keatinge, John King, John Kelly, and Denis Kirwan. Subjects include St. Vincent’s Convict refuge, liquid blacking, cattle plague, and government posts; 26 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,823 /3 From correspondents K, includes John Cavendish Browne, 3rd Baron Kilmaine, Gerald Fitzgerald, Viscount Kildare, Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, William Stuart Knox MP, Sir Robert Kane, James Kavanagh, Francis Kelly, and John King. Subjects include the Irish Times, an agricultural department for the Board of Trade, Trinity College, Dublin, and government posts; 26 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,823 /4 From correspondents K, includes William Stuart Knox MP, Sir Robert Kane, Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, William Kernaghan, Thomas Kemmis, W.H. Kisbey, and Alexander Kerr. Subjects include the Wexford election, diocesan schools, the Cairns banquet, and government posts; 29 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,823 /5 From correspondents K, includes William Stuart Knox MP, Robert Kennedy, Thomas Kelly, and Henry Kennedy. Subjects include the Education Commission, the Armagh and Waterford elections, law appointments, and government posts; 16 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,823 /6 From correspondents K, includes Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh MP, William Stuart Knox MP, the Knight of Kerry, Major Laurence Knox, Thomas Kelly, and Charles Knox. Subjects include the Trans-Atlantic cable, Trim gaol, a declaration from Mayo magistrates, and government posts; 23 items Dec. 1866

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MS 43,824 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland from correspondents L, includes William Pakenham, 4th Earl Longford, George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, Henry Leeson, Edward Litton, Robert Longfield, and G.W. Lambart. Subjects include the Cockermouth election, law appointments and government posts; 22 items July 1866

MS 43,824 /2 From correspondents L, includes William Hale Pery, 3rd Earl Limerick, William Pakenham, 4th Earl Longford, Anthony Lefroy MP, Nicholas Leader MP, Robert Longfield, Edward Latouche, Edward Litton, and Rev. Charles Leslie. Subjects include the Master of the Rolls, the Bishopric of Meath and government posts; 26 items July 1866

MS 43,824 /3 From correspondents L, includes Sir Massey Lopes MP, Charles P. Leslie MP, Thomas Lefroy (Lord Chief Justice), Edward Litton, Henry Lee, Robert Longfield, William Law, and James Lowry. Subjects include the Constabulary Bill, the Landed Estates Court, church livings and government posts; 25 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,824 /4 From correspondents L, includes George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, George Ponsonby O’Callaghan, 2nd Viscount Lismore, Lord Henry Lennox MP (First Secretary to the Admiralty), Anthony Lefroy MP, Charles P. Leslie MP, Edward Litton, Michael Lynch, J.W. Lambart, Henry Lee, and William Law. Subjects include the Master of the Rolls, the Admiralty Board, and government posts; 30 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,824 /5 From correspondents L, includes William Pakenham, 4th Earl Longford, George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, Anthony Lefroy MP, Nicholas Leader MP, Charles P. Leslie MP, Rev. Edward Labatt, and Robert Longfield. Subjects include the Cockermouth and Tipperary elections, the Limerick Chronicle, church livings and government posts; 33 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,824 /6 From correspondents L, includes George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, George Ponsonby O’Callaghan, 2nd Viscount Lismore, William Pakenham, 4th Earl Longford, Anthony Lefroy MP, Nicholas Leader MP, Charles P. Leslie MP, Robert Longfield, Frederick Lawless, and Thomas Lacy. Subjects include the Tipperary election, the solicitor-generalship, church livings and government posts; 32 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,824 /7 From correspondents L, includes William Hale Pery, 3rd Earl

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Limerick, George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield, Charles P. Leslie MP, Anthony Lefroy MP, George Langan, and Rev. James Lyster. Subjects include coastal defence, the Bishopric of Tuam, church livings and government posts; 25 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,824 /8 From correspondents L, includes Anthony Lefroy MP, Robert Longfield, John la Touche, W.E. Lendrick, and Rev. James Lyster. Subjects include the Bright banquet in Dublin, land improvement, the Fishery Commission, and government posts; 32 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,824 /9 From correspondents L, includes Augustus Fitzgerald, 3rd Duke Leinster, William Hale Pakenham, 4th Earl Longford, Lord Henry Lennox MP, Nicholas Leader MP, John Leane, and Robert Longfield. Subjects include the land question, Mullingar Lunatic Asylum, and government posts; 21 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,824 /10 From correspondents L, includes Augustus Fitzgerald, 3rd Duke Leinster, Anthony Lefroy MP, Charles P. Leslie MP, Nicholas Leader MP, Charles Langan MP, Charles Lindsay MP, and James Lambert. Subjects include the state of the country, the Presbyterian Chapel at Belfast, union rate receipts, and government posts; 32 items Dec. 1866

I.i.5.l. From correspondents M MS 43,825 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents M, includes Stearne Ball Miller MP, James Mackay, Francis Macdonagh, Henry Murphy, and Edmund Mansfield. Subjects include the Curragh Commissioners, candidates for the Dublin University seat, and applications for government posts; 22 items July 1866

MS 43,825 /2 From correspondents M, includes James Graham, 4th Duke Montrose (Postmaster General), Stearne Ball Miller MP, William Morris, James Moore, George Mansfield, and Emma Moore. Subjects include law appointments, cattle plague, the Fishery Commission, and applications for government posts; 29 items July 1866

MS 43,825 /3 From correspondents M, includes Stearne Ball Miller MP, John McClintock, James Mackay, Mark Monsarrat, William Moore,

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and George McGrath. Subjects include the Master of the Rolls, disturbances at Tipperary, the Fines and Penalties Office, and applications for church livings and government posts; 26 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,825 /4 From correspondents M, includes William Montague, 7th Duke Manchester, Stearne Ball Miller MP, William Molloy, Henry Mangan, John McEvoy, Francis Macdonagh, George Maunsell, and John McFarlane. Subjects include Monaghan and Cavan grand juries, cholera at Liverpool, pawnbroking, law appointments, the under secretaryship, and applications for government posts; 34 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,825 /5 From correspondents M, includes Michael Morris MP (Attorney General), George Maunsell, William McDermott, Francis Macdonagh, John Moah, and Marianne Martley. Subjects include the Tipperary election, the Master of the Rolls, the sale of claret, church livings and government posts; 32 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,826 /1 From correspondents M, includes Michael Morris MP, Edward McEvoy, Robert Mullen, David Moriarty, John McClintock, and Thomas Moore. Subjects include a cholera hospital at Naas, vacant post offices, Belfast Lunatic Asylum, election matters, and government posts; 20 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,826 /2 From correspondents M, includes William Montague, 7th Duke Manchester, Stearne Ball Miller MP, Samuel Magee, Richard Morrison, Christopher Mullen, Francis Macdonagh, and W.A. Moore. Subjects include the parliamentary representation of Belfast, vacant post offices, church livings and government posts; 27 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,826 /3 From correspondents M, includes Hervey de Montmorency, 4th Viscount Mountmorres, Michael Morris MP, Stearne Ball Miller MP, Robert Meade, James Murphy, Edmund Mansfield, and Eliza Mason. Subjects include Wexford election, postal arrangements at Cockermouth, Board of Works, and government posts; 35 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,826 /4 From correspondents M, includes Michael Morris MP, the Bishop of Meath, Thomas Martelli, Herbert Murray, Frederick Mouat, and James Murphy. Subjects include Mountjoy Prison, the Wexford and Waterford elections, Kilmainham Wood, and applications for church livings and government post; 22 items Nov. 1866

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MS 43,826 /5 From correspondents M, includes Sir J.R. Mowbray MP, Michael Morris MP, George Maunsell, John McNamara, and Samuel McBirney. Subjects include political affairs, Drogheda Harbour, Mullingar Lunatic Asylum, church livings and government posts; 21 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,826 /6 From correspondents M, includes William Montague, 7th Duke Manchester, Michael Morris MP, George McGrath, George Maunsell, James Mackay, Thomas Miles, and David Mansfield. Subjects include the state of the country, the Wexford election, vacant post offices, and government posts; 20 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,826 /7 From correspondents M, includes William Monsell MP, George Montgomery, Alexander Macnab, Henry MacCullagh, and George Mansfield. Subjects include the River Bann navigation, arms licences, church livings and government posts; 26 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,826 /8 From correspondents M, includes William Monsell MP, Sir J.R. Mowbray MP, Michael Morris MP, Christopher Monaghan, and Captain Richard Morrison. Subjects include the Tipperary election, courts martial, Belfast Recorder’s Court, and applications for government posts; 22 items Dec. 1866

I.i.5.m. From correspondents N MS 43,827 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents N, includes Sir Joseph Napier, Thomas Nugent, John Norwood, Richard Nugent, and Samuel Neil. Subjects include Napier’s appointment as Lord Justice of Appeal, vacant post offices, and government posts; 26 items July 1866

MS 43,827 /2 From correspondents N, includes Thomas Nugent, John Nugent, and Gerard Noel. Subjects include Roman Catholics and Irish political affairs, the prevention of cholera at lunatic asylums, and applications for government posts; 11 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,827 /3 From correspondents N, includes Sir Stafford Northcote MP (President of Board of Trade), Thomas Neville, Thomas Nash, Philip Nolan, and Catherine Nolan. Subjects include the Waterford election, the reorganization of the convict system, and applications for government posts; 20 items Sep.-Oct. 1866

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MS 43,827 /4 From correspondents N, includes Sir Joseph Napier, Thomas

Neville, Richard Nugent, and P.J. Newton. Subjects include the Wexford election, the Curragh of Kildare, Clonmel Lunatic Asylum, and applications for government posts; 16 items Nov.-Dec. 1866

I.i.5.n. From correspondents O MS 43,828 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents O, includes James Edward Butler, 3rd Marquess Ormonde, W.R. Ormsby-Gore MP, Edward O’Neill MP, Robert O’Hara, William O’Neill, and F.M. Olpherts. Subjects include applications for government posts; 20 items July 1866

MS 43,828 /2 From correspondents O, includes Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne, 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne, Edward O’Neill MP, Thomas O’Connell, F.M. Olpherts, William O’Neill, and Morty O’Sullivan. Subjects include the O’Neill peerage, the Bishopric of Meath, cholera, and applications for government posts; 16 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,828 /3 From correspondents O, includes Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne, 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne, Lady Francis Ormonde, Edward O’Neill MP, James P. Organ, Henry O’Hara, and Standish O’Grady. Subjects include O’Grady’s writings, the Tipperary election, vacant post offices, and government posts; 21 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,828 /4 From correspondents O, includes Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne, 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne, Robert O’Hara, the Bishop of Ossory, James P. Organ, and Hatton O’Shea. Subjects include the Bishopric of Tuam, the Tipperary election, the state of Ireland, church livings and government posts; 16 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,828 /5 From correspondents O, includes James Edward Butler, 3rd Marquess Ormonde, Edward O’Neill MP, Edward Odell, Robert O’Hara, Robert Otway, Hatton O’Shea, James Owen, and James O’Hara. Subjects include the Society for the Amelioration of the Working Classes in Ireland, the Landlord and Tenant Bill, and applications for government posts; 21 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,828 /6 From correspondents O, includes The O’Donoghue MP, Edward O’Neill MP, Robert O’Hara, Richard Orpen, Sidney Osborne, and Robert O’Brien. Subjects include convict prisons and the Prisons

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Bill, vacant post offices and government posts; 25 items Dec. 1866

I.i.5.o. From correspondents P and Q

MS 11,145 /8 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents P; 27 items July 1866

MS 11,145 /9 From correspondents P; 43 items Aug. 1866

MS 11,145 /10 From correspondents P; 36 items Sep. 1866

MS 11,145 /11-12

From correspondents P; 64 items in 2 folders Oct. 1866

MS 11,145 /13 From correspondents P; 30 items Nov. 1866

MS 11,145 /14 From correspondents P; 40 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,829 From correspondents Q, includes William Quin, Albert Charles Queely, Mary Quin, and Fanny Quin. Subjects include applications for government posts; 8 items Sep.-Dec. 1866

I.i.5.p. From correspondents R MS 43,830 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents R, includes Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl Roden, John Fock, 4th Baron de Robeck, Sir Hercules Robinson, Robert Rowan, Michael Rankin, Granville Ryder, and James Alexander Rynd. Subjects include Irish Tramways Bill, Landed Estates Court, Land Securities Company, and government posts; 19 items July 1866

MS 43,830 /2 From correspondents R, includes Sir Hercules Robinson, Joseph Reilly, Horace Rochfort, E. Ryley, and J. Robinson. Subjects include the Public Record Office of Ireland, notices to the Daily Express, and church livings and government posts; 22 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,830 /3 From correspondents R, includes Clare Sewell Read MP, John King MP, James Alexander Rynd, and James Rochfort. Subjects

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include the importation of sheep, cattle plague, Inland Revenue papers, and church livings and government posts; 15 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,830 /4 From correspondents R, includes Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl Roden, Rev. W. Percy Robinson, John Rowland, Benjamin Ray, Horace Rochfort, E. Ryley, and Martin Raymond. Subjects include Portsmouth Convict Prison, the Tipperary election, Sligo Diocesan School, Cardinal Paul Cullen, and government posts; 19 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,830 /5 From correspondents R, includes Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl Roden, Sir John Ross of Bladensburg, Edward Roberts, E. Ryley, Nugent Robinson, and James Rochfort. Subjects include petty sessions courts, Cardinal Paul Cullen, the Industrial Tenements’ Company, church livings and government posts; 25 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,830 /6 From correspondents R, includes Sir John Ross of Bladensburg, Nugent Robinson, James Richardson, Horace Rochfort, Theodore Ryland, Thomas Reid, and Frances Robinson. Subjects include the Waterford election, housing for the working poor, and applications for government posts; 23 items Dec. 1866

I.i.5.q. From correspondents S MS 43,831 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents S, includes Alexander Stewart, Francis Sanders, S.G. Saul, Frederick Shaw, Charles Seymour, James Spaight, and John St. George. Subjects include the Irish Tramways Bill, law appointments, polling places, the Cockermouth constituency, and government posts; 24 items July 1866

MS 43,831 /2 From correspondents S, includes John Edward Rous, 2nd Earl Stradbroke, Sir James Stronge MP, James St. Leger, S.G. Saul, Henry Sheill, John Shand, James Spaight, Alexander Stewart, and Jane Singleton. Subjects include the Oyster Fisheries Bill, riots at Limerick, endowed schools, the Cockermouth constituency, Athy Town Commissioners, and government posts; 41 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,831 /3 From correspondents S, includes Lord William St. Lawrence, John Edward Rous, 2nd Earl Stradbroke, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, Sir James Stronge MP, James Spaight, William Sharpe, James Shekelton, and Henry Simpson. Subjects include

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the Tipperary election, police constables, vacant post offices, and government posts; 28 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,831 /4 From correspondents S, includes John Edward Rous, 2nd Earl Stradbroke, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, Edward Sotheby, S.G. Saul, John Staunton, James Spaight, Rev. Sidney Smith, and Lucy Selby Smith. Subjects include the Tipperary election, Enniscorthy Lunatic Asylum, the Cockermouth constituency, and government posts; 28 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,831 /5 From correspondents S, includes James Spaight, Alexander Stewart, William Smethurst, John Spratt, and Thomas Scott. Subjects include the Curragh Commission, the Belfast Newsletter, the Tipperary election, vacant post offices, and government posts; 30 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,831 /6 From correspondents S, includes Colonel Edward Somerset MP, Sir James Stronge MP, George Studdart, S.G. Saul, Rev. William Stoney, James Spaight, and M. Spofforth. Subjects include the distribution of troops, Londonderry Harbour, and government posts; 25 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,831 /7 From correspondents S, includes Sir James Stronge MP, Colonel Edward Somerset MP, W.B. Smythe, M. Spofforth, G. Johnstone Stoney, A.J. Stephens, James Spaight, and Francis Shearman. Subjects include Limerick affairs, the Queen’s University, the state of the country, and government posts; 29 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,831 /8 From correspondents S, includes Colonel Edward Somerset MP, Robert Smyth, Samuel Spode, Benjamin Swift, John Slattery, W.B. Smythe, and James Spaight. Subjects include the Royal Dublin Society, Fenianism, national education, and government posts; 28 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,831 /9 From correspondents S, includes Colonel Edward Somerset MP, S.G. Saul, W.B. Smythe, James Spaight, Digby Starkey, and John Spratt. Subjects include Sunday closing, the Waterford election, the distribution of troops, the state of the country, and applications for government posts; 23 items Dec. 1866

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I.i.5.r. From correspondents T MS 43,832 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents T, includes George Frederick Upton, 3rd Viscount Templetown, Charles Tottenham MP, Robert Torrens MP, John Taafe, William Thorburn, and John Thompson. Subjects include the Armagh Guardian, the Bishopric of Meath, an agricultural board for Ireland, and government posts; 22 items July 1866

MS 43,832 /2 From correspondents T, includes John Henry de la Poer Beresford, Viscount Tyrone, Charles Tottenham MP, Sir James Emerson Tennent MP, Dr. James Henthorn Todd, J.L. du Plat Taylor, and Henry Thompson. Subjects include the Bishopric of Meath, the Post Office Savings Bank, and government posts; 31 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,832 /3 From correspondents T, includes Robert Torrens MP, Charles Tottenham MP, Edward Litton Thompson, Dr. James Henthorn Todd, J.L. du Plat Taylor, James Tucker, and Henry Trench. Subjects include New Ross Union, the Master of the Rolls, public health, Trinity College, Dublin, and government posts; 19 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,832 /4 From correspondents T, includes John Henry de la Poer Beresford, Viscount Tyrone, Robert Torrens MP, Charles Tottenham MP, Edward Litton Thompson, Frederick Trevor, James Tucker, J.L. du Plat Taylor, and W. Steuart Trench. Subjects include the Wexford election, vacant post offices, and applications for church livings and government posts; 32 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,832 /5 From correspondents T, includes John Henry de la Poer Beresford, Viscount Tyrone, Lord Arthur Trevor MP, Sir James Emerson Tennent MP, Charles Tottenham MP, W. Steuart Trench, J.L. du Plat Taylor, Dr. James Henthorn Todd, and John Tyson, Subjects include Fenianism, church livings and government posts; 22 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,832 /6 From correspondents T, includes Charles Tottenham MP, William Thompson, Walter Talbot, Richard Tooker, J.L. du Plat Taylor, and James Tucker. Subjects include Fenianism, the Irish Church Society, vacant post offices, and government posts; 26 items Dec. 1866

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I.i.5.s. From correspondents U and V MS 43,833 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents U, includes Samuel Upton and N. Uniacke. Subjects include the sale of a painting and a government post; 3 items Nov.-Dec. 1866

MS 43,834 /1 From correspondents V, includes Colonel Crofton Vandeleur MP, Sir Edward Wingfield Verner MP, Sir William Verner MP, C.C. Vesey, and Annie Vance. Subjects include vacant post offices, church livings and government posts; 33 items July-Aug. 1866

MS 43,834 /2 From correspondents V, includes Colonel Crofton Vandeleur MP and Sir William Verner MP. Subjects include vacant post offices and applications for government posts; 19 items Sep.-Oct. 1866

MS 43,834 /3 From correspondents V, includes Colonel Crofton Vandeleur MP, Sir Edward Wingfield Verner MP, Sir William Verner MP, John Vance MP, and C.C. Vesey. Subjects include legal matters, the Armagh election, vacant post offices, and applications for game licenses and government posts; 26 items Nov.-Dec. 1866

I.i.5.t. From correspondents W MS 43,835 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from correspondents W, includes George Thomas Nugent, 1st Marquess Westmeath, Spencer Walpole MP (Home Secretary), John E. Walsh (Master of the Rolls), James Whiteside (Lord Chief Justice), Sir John Stewart Wood, and Reginald Earle Welby (Treasury). Subjects include the Irish Constabulary, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Oyster Fishery Bill, and the Catholic University of Ireland; 36 items July 1866

MS 43,835 /2 From correspondents W, includes Lord Westmeath, John E. Walsh, Major Henry Wilkin, George Waring, H. Waddington (Permanent Under-Secretary, Home Office), Thomas Walker, Percy Wyndham, and Thomas Walter Webb. Subjects include Dublin magistrates, the Standard newspaper, and government posts; 28 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,835 /3 From correspondents W, includes Spencer Walpole MP, Henry Whitmore, John Wroxon, John Walker, H.H. Woods, and Sarah

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Wynne. Subjects include Cork magistrates, a photographic portrait of Lord Naas, and church livings and government posts; 23 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,835 /4 From correspondents W, includes Spencer Walpole MP, John E. Walsh, Laurence Waldron, H. Waddington, John Wolseley, Charles Warburton, William Woods, and C. Wyndham. Subjects include the Tipperary election, the Irish Fishery Commission, the letting of Palmerstown, and government posts; 37 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,835 /5 From correspondents W, includes Lord Waterford, Spencer Walpole MP, Sir John Walsh, Sir John Stewart Wood, William Bourke Wright, Rev. Michael Waldron, and James Weatherby. Subjects include the Cockermouth election, the internment of cholera suspects, fisheries, the Tipperary parliamentary election, and applications for government posts; 40 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,835 /6 From correspondents W, includes Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke Wellington, Lord Waterford, Spencer Walpole MP, John E. Walsh, Sir John Stewart Wood, Richard Wingfield, Percy Wyndham, Richard Warren, and James Wills. Subjects include the Atlantic telegraph cable, the East India Irrigation and Canal Company, Constabulary firing practice, and applications for government posts; 35 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,835 /7 From correspondents W, includes John Henry de la Poer Beresford, 5th Marquess Waterford, Lady Christiana Waterford, Spencer Walpole MP, John E. Walsh, Sir John Stewart Wood, Laurence Waldron, and Richard Walsh. Subjects include the state of Ireland, the Waterford election, the Atlantic telegraph cable, and applications for government posts; 40 items Dec. 1866

I.i.6. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1867

I.i.6.a. From correspondents A MS 43,836 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland, from correspondents A, includes John Armstrong, John Asbridge, John Arnott, Mervyn Edward Archdall MP, and the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland. Subjects include the purchase of horses, government posts, and the cultivation of flax, with a return of troops stationed in Ireland; 23 items

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Jan. 1867

MS 43,836 /2 From correspondents A, includes Mervyn Edward Archdall MP, Hugh Annesly MP, Colonel George Anderson, Edward Armstrong, and anonymous persons. Subjects include education, the Land Bill, and applications for government posts, with confidential cabinet memoranda concerning to claims for compensation by the United States government over the ‘Alabama’; 24 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,836 /3 From correspondents A, includes Hugh Annesly MP, the Archbishop of Armagh, Richard Atkinson, Samuel Adair, John Adair, and Robert Adair. Subjects include the Alimony Arrears Bill, applications for positions at the Public Record Office of Ireland, and the office of Lord Chancellor; 17 items March 1867

MS 43,836 /4 From correspondents A, includes Henry Flower, 5th Viscount Ashbrook, Hugh Annesly MP, Fanny Armstrong, Charles Armstrong, and Gerald Aylmer. Subjects include applications for government posts, with anonymous letters offering advice and information on Fenianism, and a memorial from Benjamin Armstrong concerning Bailieborough Presbytery; 23 items March 1867

MS 43,836 /5 From correspondents A, includes William Somerville, 1st Baron Athlumney, Mervyn Edward Archdall MP, Hugh Annesly MP, the Archbishop of Armagh, and John Adair. Subjects include Carlow Lunatic Asylum, imports of sheep from Scotland, judicial appeals to the Crown, and the Petty Sessions Bill; 18 items April 1867

MS 43,836 /6 From correspondents A, includes John Abraham, Hugh Annesly MP, the Archbishop of Armagh, Fanny Armstrong, Henry Acheson, and anonymous persons. Subjects include Fenian prisoners, the Irish church question, tobacco in Ireland, and applications for government posts; 19 items May-June 1867

MS 11,146 /1 From correspondents A; 8 items May-June 1867

MS 11,146 /2-4 From correspondents A; 24 items in 3 folders July 1867

MS 11,146 /5-6 From correspondents A; 17 items in 2 folders Aug. 1867

MS 11,146 /7-8 From correspondents A; 27 items in 2 folders

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Sep. 1867

MS 11,146 /9-11 From correspondents A; 31 items in 3 folders Oct. 1867

MS 11,146 /12-13

From correspondents A; 20 items in 2 folders Nov. 1867

MS 11,146 /14-15

From correspondents A; 32 items in 2 folders

I.i.6.b. From correspondents B MS 11,147 /1-5 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents B; 56 items in 5 folders Jan. 1867

MS 11,147 /6-9 From correspondents B; 67 items in 4 folders Feb. 1867

MS 11,147 /10-14

From correspondents B; c.120 items in 5 folders March 1867

MS 11,147 /15-17

From correspondents B; 56 items in 3 folders April 1867

MS 11,147 /18-23

From correspondents B; 95 items in 6 folders May 1867

MS 11,147 /24-8 From correspondents B; 70 items in 5 folders June 1867

MS 11,148 /1-4 From correspondents B; c.110 items in 4 folders July 1867

MS 11,148 /5-7 From correspondents B; 74 items in 3 folders Aug. 1867 [1 item is badly damaged]

MS 11,148 /8-10 From correspondents B; 64 items in 3 folders Sep. 1867

MS 11,148 /11-13

From correspondents B; 61 items in 3 folders Oct. 1867

MS 11,148 /14-17

From correspondents B; 61 items in 3 folders Nov. 1867 [1 items is fragile]

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MS 11,201 /8 Telegrams to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Charles Bourke, topics include endowed schools, Clare Lunatic Asylum and registrars of marriage; 6 items Nov.-Dec. 1867

MS 11,148 /17-20

From correspondents B; c.60 items in 4 folders Dec. 1867

I.i.6.c. From correspondents C MS 43,837 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents C, includes Francis Congyham, 4th Marquess Congyham, George Cornwall (Secretary, GPO), Richard Clement, Richard Chaloner and Rev. Richard Croker. Subjects include Fenianism, vacant post offices, government posts, and the promotion of Constabulary officers; 18 items Jan. 1867

MS 43,837 /2 From correspondents C, includes Henry Howard Herbert, 4th Earl Carnarvon (Colonial Secretary), James Stopford, 5th Earl Courtown, Henry Arthur Cole MP, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Hugh Cairns (Lord Chief Justice), Richard Clement, and Edward Carr. Subjects include the provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, and government posts; 22 items Jan. 1867

MS 43,837 /3 From correspondents C, includes Henry Arthur Cole MP, Sir James Chatterton, Hugh Cairns, Rev. H. Cooke, and Richard Clement. Subjects discussed include the provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, the Landed Estates Court, midwifery licences, the Civil Service College, and applications for government posts; 22 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,837 /4 From correspondents C, includes HRH Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (Commander-in-Chief, British Army), Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Henry Arthur Cole MP, Thomas Connolly MP, Edward Cooper MP, Pierce Creagh, John Chapman, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Landlord and Tenant Bill, prisons, Waterford election, and applications for government posts; 21 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,837 /5 From correspondents C, includes the Archbishop of Cashel, Thomas Connolly MP, Thomas Carey, Peter Cowan, Richard Cook, Thomas Carson, Edward Cane, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Landlord and Tenant Bill, county cess, the

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Irish Fishery Commission, and government posts; 23 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,837 /6 From correspondents C, includes HRH Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, James Stopford, 5th Earl Courtown, Henry Arthur Cole MP, Edward Carr, Pierce Creagh, and Richard Clement. Subjects include game licences, the condition of Thurles, government posts and vacant post offices; 27 items March 1867

MS 43,837 /7 From correspondents C, includes Viscount Castlerosse, Lady Carbery, Hugh Cairns, Henry Arthur Cole MP, Edward Cooper MP, Pierce Creagh, John Cooke, Edward Campbell, and Richard Clement. Subjects include crown solicitors, accommodation for troops, vacant post offices, and government posts; 28 items March 1867

MS 43,837 /8 From correspondents C, includes James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl Charlemont, Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, Somerset Butler, 5th Earl Carrick, John Charles Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris, James Stopford, 5th Earl Courtown, William Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl Clancarty, Henry Lowry-Corry MP (First Lord of Admiralty), Henry Arthur Cole MP, William McColgan, Daniel Conner, and Richard Clement. Subjects include Richmond Bridewell, the recruitment of special constables in County Cork, church patronage, and government posts; 24 items March 1867

MS 43,838 /1 From correspondents C, includes Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock, John Yarde-Butler, 1st Baron Charston, Sir James Chatterton, John Cobbald MP, Edward Cooper MP, Henry Arthur Cole MP, Henry Lowry-Corry MP, Charles Cox, Fanny Crowe, and Richard Clement. Subjects include lunatic asylums, civil service superannuation, and government posts; 27 items April 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,838 /2 From correspondents C, includes Edward Cooper MP, John Curran, Pierce Creagh, William Cornwall, R.D. Coulson RM, Edward Croker, and Richard Clement. Subjects include vacant post offices, Cumberland Benevolent Institution, and applications for government posts; 27 items April 1867

MS 43,838 /3 From correspondents C, includes Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, Daniel Conner, Belinda Creagh, Rev. Edward Campbell, and Richard Clement. Subjects include Richmond Bridewell, vacant post offices, and government posts. Also includes copy correspondence between William Cornwall, Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglinton and 1st Earl Winton, William

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Somerville, 1st Baron Athlumney and others (1852-67); 29 items April 1867

MS 43,838 /4 From correspondents C, includes HRH Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Richard Hancock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine, James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl Charlemont, William Cornwall, Edward Croker, Rev. William Clemenger, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Landed Estates Court, prison warders, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 23 items May 1867

MS 43,838 /5 From correspondents C, includes Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, Henry Thomas Corry MP, General A. Cunynghame, Thomas Carson, Rev. William Clemenger, Colonel Vandeleur Creagh, W. Glenny Crory and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Landed Estates Court, vacant post offices, sponsorship for a weekly journal, prisons, and government posts; 31 items May 1867

MS 43,838 /6 From correspondents C, includes Richard Hancock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine, Sir Walter Crofton, Colonel Vandeleur Creagh, Edward Carr, Rev. William Clemenger, George Cooper, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Veterinary Department, the Bridges Bill, vacant post offices, and government posts; 27 items May 1867

MS 43,838 /7 From correspondents C, includes Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, Henry Arthur Cole MP, J. Christian (Lord Justice of Ireland), James Cummins, James Clarke, Daniel Conner, and Richard Clement. Subjects include Court of Chancery Bill, prisons, County Treasurers Bill, vacant post offices, and Bridges Bill; 26 items June 1867

MS 43,838 /8 From correspondents C, include Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Richard Hancock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine, Edward Cooper MP, Pierce Creagh, Edward Carr, W. Glenny Crory, Robert Clokey, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Bridges Bill, vacant post offices, ships on the Irish coast, and applications for government posts; 28 items June 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,838 /9 From correspondents C, includes W. Glenny Crory, Eliza Campbell, W.C. Cannon, Eleanor Curtis, and Richard Clement. Subjects include prison warders, police pensioners, supplies of claret, sponsorship of the Irish Reformer, and government posts; 20 items June 1867

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MS 43,839 /1 From correspondents C, includes Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock, William Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty, Ralph Cusack, Thomas Connellan, Daniel Conner, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the importation of sheep, drainage of the River Suck, the Bridges Bill, vacant post offices, and the Midland Railway Company; 11 items July 1867

MS 11,149 /1-4 From correspondents C; c.85 items in 4 folders July 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,839 /2 From correspondents C, includes Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, John Candlish MP, Edmond Croker, Thomas Connellan, Michael Crampton, Thomas Corker, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Lunatic Asylums Act, railways, prisons, returns of mortality and marriages, vacant post offices, and government posts; 28 items Aug. 1867

MS 43,839 /3 From correspondents C, includes Edward Lawless, 3rd Baron Cloncurry, John Charles Bingham, 4th Baron Clanmorris, Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury, William Cornwall, Rev. P. Conway, and Richard Clement. Subjects include the Law Officers Bill, a return of churches built in Ireland since 1833, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 25 items Aug. 1867

MS 43,839 /4 From correspondents C, includes Eyre Massey, 3rd Baron Clarina, William Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty, Henry Thomas Corry MP, Lieutenant-General George Colomb, Rev. P. Conway, and Richard Clement. Subjects include distress in the west of Ireland, vacant post offices, and government posts; 15 items Aug. 1867

MS 11,149 /5 From correspondents C; 4 items Aug. 1867

MS 11,149 /6-8 From correspondents C; c.80 items in 3 folders Sep. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,149 /9 From correspondents C; 39 items Oct. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,149 /10-12

From correspondents C; 43 items in 3 folders Nov. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

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MS 11,149 /13-15

From correspondents C; c.65 items in 3 folders Dec. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

I.i.6.d. From correspondents D MS 11,150 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents D; 13 items Jan. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /2 From correspondents D; 31 items Feb. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /3-4 From correspondents D; c.60 items in 2 folders March 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /5 From correspondents D; c.50 items April 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /6 From correspondents D; 43 items May 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /7 From correspondents D; c.45 items June 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /8 From correspondents D; 86 items July-Aug. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /9 From correspondents D; 81 items Sep-Oct 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 11,150 /10-11

From correspondents D; c.80 items in 2 folders Nov-Dec 1867 [some items are water damaged]

I.i.6.e. From correspondents E

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This collection of letters are extremely badly water damaged to the extent that the majority are in too delicate a condition to be viewed. MS 11,151 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents E; 7 items Jan. 1867 [items are water damaged]

MS 11,151 /2 From correspondents E; 5 items April 1867 [items are water damaged]

MS 11,151 /3 From correspondents E; 2 items July-Aug. 1867 [items are water damaged]

MS 11,151 /4-5 From correspondents E; 2 folders 1867 [items are too damaged to be viewed]

I.i.6.f. From correspondents F MS 11,151 /6 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents F; 12 items Jan. 1867

MS 11,151 /7 From correspondents F; 8 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,151 /8 From correspondents F; 22 items March 1867

MS 11,151 /9 From correspondents F; 15 items April 1867

MS 11,151 /10 From correspondents F; 25 items May 1867

MS 11,151 /11 From correspondents F; 15 items June 1867

MS 11,151 /12 From correspondents F; 29 items July 1867

MS 11,151 /13 From correspondents F; 17 items Aug. 1867

MS 11,151 /14 From correspondents F; 36 items

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MS 11,151 /15 From correspondents F; 21 items Oct. 1867

MS 11,151 /16 From correspondents F; 42 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,151 /17 From correspondents F; 32 items Dec. 1867

I.i.6.g. From correspondents G MS 43,840 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents G, includes Sir Richard Griffith (Commissioner of Valuation), William Ormsby Gore MP, William Gregory MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, J. Ball Greene, and Judge John George. Subjects include the Land Improvement Bill, the state of Wexford, fishery prosecutions, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 23 items Jan. 1867

MS 43,840 /2 From correspondents G, includes Edward Anthony Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston, Sir Richard Griffith, Sir John Gray MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, William Ormsby Gore MP, J. Ball Greene, Henry Garnett, Robert Given, John Galvan, John Greene. Subjects include the Tenants Improvement Bill, Fenianism in Kerry, a return of agricultural holdings in Ireland, church affairs, and applications for government posts; 28 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,840 /3 From correspondents G, includes Edward Anthony Preston, 13th Viscount Gormanston, Sir John Gray MP, Ralph Neville Grenville MP, Samuel Graves MP, William Gregory MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, Cyril Graham, Robert Griffin, and Robert Given. Subjects include the closing of public houses, the Vartry resevoir, post masters, and government posts; 23 items March 1867

MS 43,840 /4 From correspondents G, includes William Ormsby Gore MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, Judge John George, Benjamin Gibson, William Goff, Robert Goff, Johnston Brown Godfrey, and James Galwey. Subjects include the assizes at Nenagh, the sale of a horse, and applications for government posts; 23 items March 1867

MS 43,840 /5 From correspondents G, includes Benjamin Guinness MP, William Ormsby Gore MP, George Greene, Robert Gore, Samuel

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Garnett, Robert Given, and Johnston Brown Godfrey. Subjects include the opening of St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, to the public, church livings and government posts, with a memorial concerning the office of Master of the Court of Exchequer; 26 items April 1867

MS 43,840 /6 From correspondents G, includes Sir Richard Griffith, Benjamin Guinness MP, William Ormsby Gore MP, Samuel Graves MP, John Gorst MP, Andrew Green Thompson, James Gilligan, Thomas Gambell, and Dr. Arthur Gayer. Subjects include Sunday Closing Bill, postal deliveries, the County Treasurers Bill, electoral returns, the Conservative Land Society, and applications for government posts; 29 items May 1867

MS 43,840 /7 From correspondents G, include Charles Noel, 2nd Earl Gainsborough, Sir Richard Griffith, Benjamin Guinness MP, William Ormsby Gore MP, Arthur Guinness, Joseph Gilbourne, Samuel Goodisson, and Dr. Arthur Gayer. Subjects include rateable property, the appointment of Roman Catholics to public offices, parliamentary returns, and government posts; 29 items May-June 1867

MS 43,841 /1 From correspondents G, includes William Ormsby Gore MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, Rev. James Garrett, Dr. Robert Gelston, Robert Given, Joseph Greer, Judge John George, and Thomas Gibson. Subjects include the sale of horses, the prosecution of a constable, and government posts; 32 items July 1867

MS 43,841 /2 From correspondents G, includes Sir John Gray MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, Robert Goff, George Greene, Dr. Robert Gelston, and William Gernon. Subjects include county cess, the sale of horses, the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland, with a memorial from the Grand Jury of the city of Kilkenny, and applications for government posts; 22 items Aug. 1867

MS 43,841 /3 From correspondents G, includes Field-Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, William Ormsby Gore MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, Richard Gorges, Dr. Robert Gelston, Dr. Richard Grattan, Robert Given, and Fanny Gretton. Subjects include Manchester Fenians, lunatic asylums, and government posts; 21 items Sep. 1867

MS 43,841 /4 From correspondents G, includes Sir John Gray MP, Benjamin Guinness MP, William Gregory MP, Dr. Robert Gelston , Dr. Richard Gelston, and John Galvan. Subjects include Ballinasloe Fair, the establishment of a literary society, and government posts; 25 items

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Oct. 1867

MS 43,841 /5 From correspondents G, includes William Gregory MP, William Ormsby Gore MP, Hon. George Gough, Dr. Robert Gelston, Rev. Benjamin Gibson, Robert Given, and John Greenwood. Subjects include Manchester Fenians, vacant post offices, church livings and government posts; 24 items Nov. 1867

MS 43,841 /6 From correspondents G, includes James Carr-Boyle, 5th Earl Glasgow, Benjamin Guinness MP, J. Ball Greene, Benjamin Gibson, Robert Given, Robert Goff, and Rev. Tresham Gregg. Subjects include the selection of a Law Adviser and a Revising Barrister for Dublin, horse sales, maps of parliamentary seats, applications for government posts; 21 items Dec. 1867

I.i.6.h. From correspondents H MS 43,842 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents H, includes James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton MP, Henry Herbert MP, George Hunt MP, John Pope Hennessy MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, George Hervey, and William Hayden. Subjects include Irish North Western Railway, the sale of horses, vacant post offices, and government posts; 26 items Jan. 1867

MS 43,842 /2 From correspondents H, includes Lord Claud Hamilton MP, George Hunt MP, Gathorne Hardy MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Dr. William Neilson Hancock, George Harrison, and Michael Hassard. Subjects include the transportation of cattle, Waterford Harbour Board, railway reform, improvements to the Chief Secretary’s Lodge, and applications for government posts; 32 items Jan. 1867

MS 43,842 /3 From correspondents H, includes James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton MP, Lord Arthur Hill-Trevor MP, A.J. Beresford Hope MP, the Hon. L. King-Harman, Nugent Humble, George Alexander Hamilton MP (Permanent Secretary to Treasury), and Thomas Rice Henn. Subjects include the Landlord and Tenant Bill, the Waterford election, and government posts; 22 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,842 /4 From correspondents H, includes Lord George Hill, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Sir A. Horsford, John

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Harte, Gustavus Hamilton, and Rev. Henry Henderson. Subjects include the Landlord and Tenant Bill, Fenianism in Kerry, national education, and government posts; 30 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,842 /5 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, George Hunt MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Gustavus Hamilton, J. Bagge Hearn, Thornton Hunt, and Frederick Haydon. Subjects include the Landlord and Tenant Bill, Fenianism in Kildare, business in the House of Commons, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, and government posts; 34 items March 1867

MS 43,842 /6 From correspondents H, includes Ion Trant Hamilton MP, John Pope Hennessy MP, Sir Robert Harty, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Robert Hunter, Gustavus Hamilton, and Major John Holland. Subjects include the Public Record Office of Ireland, supplementary estimates, Fenianism, the Belfast Prebytery, the Science and Art Department, and government posts; 29 items March 1867

MS 43,843 /1 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Gathorne Hardy MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Michael Hassard, Gustavus Hamilton, and George Alexander Hamilton MP. Subjects include Waterford magistrates, the Londonderry Bridge, prisons, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and applications for government posts; 29 items April 1867

MS 43,843 /2 From correspondents H, includes James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton MP, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, George Hervey, Michael Hassard, and Joseph Hayes. Subjects include Waterford Bridge, dog tax, vacant post offices, and applications for government posts; 28 items April 1867

MS 43,843 /3 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Thomas Horsfall MP, Dr William Neilson Hancock, Joseph Hayes, and Henry Holbrook. Subjects include railways, land tenure, convicts, pawnbroking laws, and applications for government posts; 26 items May 1867

MS 43,843 /4 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Marquis of Hamilton MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Gathorne Hardy MP, George Hunt MP,

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John Pope Hennessy, George Alexander Hamilton MP, and T.H. Hardinge. Subjects include the County Treasurers Bill, the Irish Regiments Bill, the Public Record Office of Ireland, cattle plague, and applications for government posts; 32 items May 1867

MS 43,843 /5 From correspondents H, includes Robert Harvey MP, George Hunt MP, Dr. William Neilson Hancock, George Alexander Hamilton MP, T.H. Hardinge, and Rev. Henry Hudson. Subjects include the Land Tenure Bill, statistical returns, the Athenry & Ennis Junction Railway, Dungarvan affairs, and government posts; 27 items June 1867

MS 43,843 /6 From correspondents H, includes James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, George Hervey, John Higginbotham, Michael Hassard, George Alexander Hamilton MP, and T.H. Hardinge. Subjects include civil service superannuation, Inland Revenue departmental reform, vacant post offices, and government posts; 24 items June 1867

MS 43,844 /1 From correspondents H, includes James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Colonel George Hillier, W.M. Hennessy, and Henry Harris. Subjects include Ballymahon Union, lunatic asylums, Macroom Board of Guardians, and applications for government posts; 27 items July 1867

MS 43,844 /2 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, William Hodgson MP, John Pope Hennessy, Hon. L. King-Harman, Dr. William Neilson Hancock, Henry Higginson, James Hyndman, and Michael Hassard. Subjects include the Bann and Foyle fisheries, national education, National Produce Stakes, and applications for government posts; 27 items July 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,844 /3 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Sir George Hodson, Hon. L. King-Harman, and T.H. Hardinge. Subjects include athletic sports, constabulary barracks, the Public Works Bill, Clonmel Lunatic Asylum, and applications for government posts; 27 items July 1867

MS 43,844 /4 From correspondents H, includes James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, George Hunt MP, Ion

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Trant Hamilton MP, John Hanlon, G.W. Hemans, and Emma Hudson. Subjects include the Lunatic Asylums Bill, the Railway Commission, Waterford Board of Guardians, flax cultivation, and applications for government posts; 40 items Aug. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,844 /5 From correspondents H, includes George Francis Harris, 3rd Baron Harris, Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Henry Herbert, Henry Henderson, and Henry Hamilton. Subjects include Irish railways, flax cultivation, thw Irish Church Commission, and applications for government posts; 29 items Aug. 1867

MS 43,844 /6 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Gathorne Hardy MP, William Hodgson MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Sir Robert Harvey MP, and Dr. William Neilson Hancock. Subjects include legal matters, railways, the salaries of petty sessions clerks, and government posts; 29 items Sep. 1867

MS 43,844 /7 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, William Hughes MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, John Pope Hennessy, George Hervey, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Thomas Rice Henn, John Hanlon, and Henry Higginson. Subjects include Irish Constabulary, Donegal Militia, and government posts; 30 items Sep. 1867

MS 43,844 /8 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Lord George Hill, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, George Hunt MP, John Pope Hennessy, George Hervey, George Alexander Hamilton MP, John Hanna, and J. Standish Haly. Subjects include Tralee Harbour, prisons, and applications for government posts; 24 items Sep. 1867

MS 43,845 /1 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, Lady Alice Hill, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, George Alexander Hamilton MP, Robert Hunt, Thomas Hamilton RM, Rev. William Hickey, and John Halpen. Subjects include the Irish Constabulary, the Curragh, and government posts; 23 items Oct. 1867

MS 43,845 /2 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, George Hunt MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Gathorne Hardy MP, John Hanlon, James Traill Hall, and Joseph Hayes. Subjects include cabinet councils, Londonderry Bridge, the Queen’s University, factory inspectors,

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the Railway Commission, and government posts; 25 items Oct. 1867

MS 43,845 /3 From correspondents H, includes Lady Georgiana Hamilton, Sir James McGarel-Hogg MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, Henry Higginson, Dr. William Neilson Hancock, and Sackville Hamilton. Subjects include Wicklow School, the Railway Commission, and government posts; 23 items Nov. 1867

MS 43,845 /4 From correspondents H, includes Charles Allanson-Winn, 3rd Baron Headley, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, George Henderson, W. Cole Hamilton, and Annabella Higginson. Subjects include salmon fisheries, vacant post offices, the Chief Secretary’s Lodge, and government posts; 19 items Nov. 1867

MS 43,845 /5 From correspondents H, includes Cornwallis Maude, 4th Viscount Hawarden, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Henry Herbert MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Ion Trant Hamilton MP, M. Angelo Hayes, John Hanna, and Robert Hynds. Subjects include Waterford Lunatic Asylum, public feeling in the Kerry and the North of Ireland, Ballymahon Union, and government posts; 26 items Dec. 1867

MS 43,845 /6 From correspondents H, includes Jacob Henry Astley, 17th Baron Hastings, James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton MP, Lord Claud Hamilton MP, Sir Frederic Heygate MP, Henry Higginson, John Francis Hogan, and Joseph Hayes. Subjects include party processions and politics in the North of Ireland, the Wexford Independent newspaper, and government posts; 19 items Dec. 1867

I.i.6.i. From correspondents I MS 43,846 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents I, includes Lucius O’Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin, S.G. Ireland, John Irwin, David Innes, and George Ilbury. Subjects include the Great Southern and Western Railway, horse breeding, positions in the Irish Constabulary, and government appointments; 29 items Jan.-May 1867

MS 43,846 /2 From correspondents I, includes Lucius O’Brien, 13th Baron Inchiquin, Arthur Innes MP, David Innes, Edward Irwin, S.G. Ireland, Arthur Ireland, and John Irwin. Subjects include horse breeding, and government appointments; 32 items June-Dec. 1867

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I.i.6.j. From correspondents J MS 43,847 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents J, includes Henry Jervis-White-Jervis MP, John Jones, Norman Johnston, Augustus Jocelyn, William Lane Joynt (Lord Mayor of Dublin), Rev. Robert Johnstone, A.G. Judge, and Robert Jackson. Subjects include the Landed Estates Court, the Oaths Enquiry Commission, Irish Railway Reform, and government appointments; 26 items Jan.-March 1867

MS 43,847 /2 From correspondents J, includes Henry Jervis-White-Jervis MP, Strange Jocelyn, John Joyce, R.W. Joynt, Rev. Evans Johnson, and Patrick Jackman. Subjects include the Public Works Bill, National Schools, promotion in the Church of Ireland, and government appointments; 24 items April-Oct. 1867

MS 43,847 /3 From correspondents J, includes William Lane Joynt, William Bence Jones, Rev. R.G. Jones, Henry Jones, William Forbes Johnson, and Fanny Jephson. Subjects include the Prisons Bill, Cork Lunatic Asylum, tenant right, the boundaries of baronies in Co. Cork, and government appointments; 19 items Nov.-Dec. 1867

I.i.6.k. From correspondents K MS 11,152 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents K; 23 items Jan. 1867

MS 11,152 /2 From correspondents K; 10 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,152 /3 From correspondents K; 41 items March 1867

MS 11,152 /4 From correspondents K; c.55 items April 1867

MS 11,152 /5 From correspondents K; 39 items May 1867

MS 11,152 /6 From correspondents K; 38 items June 1867

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MS 11,152 /7 From correspondents K; 33 items

July 1867

MS 11,152 /8 From correspondents K; 42 items Aug. 1867

MS 11,152 /9 From correspondents K; 25 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,152 /10 From correspondents K; 27 items Oct. 1867

MS 11,152 /11 From correspondents K; 19 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,152 /12 From correspondents K; 35 items Dec. 1867

I.i.6.l. From correspondents L MS 11,153 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents L; 34 items Jan. 1867

MS 11,153 /2 From correspondents L; c.50 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,153 /3-4 From correspondents L; c.75 items in 2 folders March 1867

MS 11,153 /5-6 From correspondents L; 66 items in 2 folders April 1867

MS 11,153 /7 From correspondents L; c.50 items May 1867

MS 11,153 /8 From correspondents L; 45 items June 1867

MS 11,154 /1-2 From correspondents L; c.80 items in 2 folders July 1867

MS 11,154 /3-4 From correspondents L; c.60 items in 2 folders Aug. 1867

MS 11,154 /5 From correspondents L; 38 items Sep. 1867

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MS 11,154 /6 From correspondents L; 43 items

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MS 11,154 /7 From correspondents L; 37 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,154 /8-9 From correspondents L; c.60 items in 2 folders Dec. 1867

I.i.6.m. From correspondents M MS 11,155 /1-2 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents M; c.80 items in 2 folders Jan. 1867

MS 11,155 /3-4 From correspondents M; c.60 items in 2 folders Feb. 1867

MS 11,155 /5-6 From correspondents M; c.110 items in 2 folders March 1867

MS 11,155 /7-8 From correspondents M; c.90 items in 2 folders April 1867

MS 11,155 /9-10 From correspondents M; c.65 items in 2 folders May 1867

MS 11,155 /11-12

From correspondents M; c.75 items in 2 folders June 1867

MS 11,156 /1-2 From correspondents M; c.80 items in 2 folders July 1867

MS 11,156 /3-4 From correspondents M; c.50 items in 2 folders August 1867

MS 11,156 /5 From correspondents M; c.50 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,156 /6-7 From correspondents M; c.100 items in 2 folders Oct. 1867

MS 11,156 /8 From correspondents M; c.40 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,156 /9-10 From correspondents M; c.70 items in 2 folders

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I.i.6.n. From correspondents N-P MS 11,157 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents N-P; 37 items Jan. 1867

MS 43,849 /1 From correspondents P, includes Sir John Pakington MP (First Lord of Admiralty), John Pennefather, Henry Perry, Randle Peyton, R.H. Chapman, Lonsdale Pounden, Joseph Parker, and A. Power (Poor Law Commission). Subjects include the salaries of medical officers, convict labour, Jamaican magistrates, the electors of Waterford, and government posts; 27 items Jan. 1867

MS 11,157 /2 From correspondents N-P; 37 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,849 /2 From correspondents P, includes Jonathan Pim MP, John Pennefather, J. Scott Porter, Robert Pearson, Richard Phillips, and A. Power. Subjects include the provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, the land question, army clothing, and government posts. Includes a confidential memorandum on the Army Reserve; 28 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,157 /3 From correspondents N-P; 45 items March 1867

MS 43,848 From correspondents N, includes Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl Bandon, Sir Stafford Northcote MP (Secretary of State for India), W.J. Newby, Gertrude North-Peat, James Noel, and John Nugent. Subjects include personal expenses and government posts; 12 items March 1867

MS 43,849 /3 From correspondents P, includes Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, Sir James Power, Sir John Pakington MP, John Wilson Patten MP, Henry Parkinson, Francis Petrie, William Pennefather, George Pasley, and Eyre Powell. Subjects include post offices in Co. Kildare, the state of Wicklow, the distribution of police and troops, and government posts; 28 items March 1867

MS 43,849 /4 From correspondents P, includes Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, William Henry Poulett, 6th Earl Poulett, Sir James Power MP, the Bishop of Perth, Richard Pickering, Lt. Colonel

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George Palmer, Thomas Power, Jacob Powell, Henry Perry, George Pasley, and A. Power. Subjects include counsel for Fenian prisoners, the Galway election, Australian affairs, turnpike roads, and applications for government posts; 29 items March 1867

MS 11,157 /4 From correspondents N-P; c.50 items April 1867

MS 43,849 /5 From correspondents P, includes Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, Matthew Blagden Hale (Bishop of Perth), Thomas Plowman, George Pasley, Catherine Perry, Henry Peile, John Perceval, J. Pellett, Edmund Peel, and A. Power. Subjects include Rathdrum Dispensary, the Palmerstown Estate, the Bridges (Ireland) Bill, and government posts; 41 items April 1867

MS 11,157 /5 From correspondents N-P; 48 items May 1867

MS 43,849 /6 From correspondents P, includes Jonathan Pim MP, Sir W. Palmer, George Pasley, George Peyton, Frederick Ponsonby, J. Pellett, and A. Power. Subjects include the pollution of rivers, the price of horses, distress in Connemara, the Public Record Office of Ireland, and government posts, with a copy of The British National Archives by E. Lethbridge; 20 items May 1867

MS 43,849 /7 From correspondents P; includes Randle Peyton, James Palmer, Henry Price, Edward Purdon, and A. Power. Subjects include the Irish Reform Bill, the magistracy of Waterford, the state of Donegal, the Court of Admiralty, cattle plague, Kenmare Workhouse, Poor Law reports, and applications for government posts; 26 items May 1867

MS 11,157 /6 From correspondents N-P; 30 items June 1867

MS 43,849 /8 From correspondents P, includes Sir John Pakington MP (Secretary of War), Eyre Powell, Francis Page, Henry Price, George Pasley, and A. Power. Subjects include Liverpool Cattle Market, the appointment of medical officers, poor relief in Co. Galway, police barracks, the importation of sheep, and applications for government posts; 38 items June 1867

MS 11,157 /7 From correspondents N-P; 39 items July 1867

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MS 43,850 /1 From correspondents P, includes Sir James Power MP, Frederick Ponsonby, John Phillips, Dr. Thomas Power, James Power, Jasper Peck, and A. Power. Subjects include Cork Lunatic Asylum, Castlecomer Union, the Temporary Advances Act, medical expenses in Irish workhouses, the Constabulary Officers’ Widows’ Annuity Society, and government posts; 28 items July 1867

MS 43,850 /2 From correspondents P, includes Matthew Blagden Hale (Bishop of Perth), Ernest Augustus. Perceval (private secretary to Home Secretary), Captain F. Petrie, Francis Page, and A. Power. Subjects include Poor Law rating, the export of cattle, Ballina Workhouse, auditors’ salaries, the Public Record Office of Ireland, and applications for government posts; 21 items July 1867

MS 11,157 /8 From correspondents N-P; 41 items Aug. 1867

MS 43,850 /3 From correspondents P, includes Sir Robert Peel MP, Jonathan Pim MP, James Pagan, E.A. Perceval, J. Pellett, and Henry Price. Subjects include the Court of Admiralty, the Irish Church Commission, the Royal Hibernian Academy, coal prices, prison diet, the Directorship of Convict Prisons, and the Weights and Measures (Dublin) Bill; 16 items Aug. 1867

MS 43,850 /4 From correspondents P, includes Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, Jonathan Pim MP, James Pagan, Samuel Potter, J. Phillips, Emily Preston, and A. Power. Subjects include distress in counties Galway and Mayo, coal deliveries, the solicitor generalship, and government posts; 17 items Aug. 1867

MS 11,157 /9 From correspondents N-P; 23 items Sep. 1867

MS 43,850 /5 From correspondents P, includes Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, Jonathan Pim MP, Sir James Power, Captain F. Petrie, Thomas Padin, J.S. Potts, Robert Pearson, E.A. Perceval, Emily Preston, and A. Power. Subjects include cattle inspection, Poor Law rating, ciphers, and government posts; 25 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,157 /10 From correspondents N-P; 33 items Oct. 1867

MS 43,850 /6 From correspondents P, includes Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, Lady

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Catherine Perry, Jonathan Pim MP, Charles Melville Pim, J.S. Potts, E.A. Perceval, Henry Perry, and A. Power. Subjects include the appointment of medical officers, the Education Commission, Fenianism, tenement buildings, and government posts; 36 items Oct.-Dec. 1867

MS 11,157 /11 From correspondents N-P; 32 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,157 /12 From correspondents N-P; 15 items Dec. 1867

I.i.6.o. From correspondents Q-R MS 11,158 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents Q-R; 21 items Jan. 1867

MS 11,158 /2 From correspondents Q-R; 27 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,158 /3-4 From correspondents Q-R; 50 items in 2 folders March 1867

MS 11,158 /5 From correspondents Q-R; 19 items April 1867

MS 11,158 /6 From correspondents Q-R; 13 items May 1867

MS 11,158 /7 From correspondents Q-R; 46 items June 1867

MS 11,158 /8 From correspondents Q-R; 28 items July 1867

MS 11,158 /9 From correspondents Q-R; 19 items Aug. 1867

MS 11,158 /10 From correspondents Q-R; 15 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,158 /11 From correspondents Q-R; 21 items Oct. 1867

MS 11,158 /12 From correspondents Q-R; 17 items Nov. 1867

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I.i.6.p. From correspondents S MS 43,851 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents S, includes Sir James Stronge MP, Colonel Edward Somerset MP, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, T.H. Sanderson (Foreign Office), Thomas Stotesbury, Stephen Shepherd, Henry Sewell, William Spaight, and W.B. Smythe. Subjects include the Waterford election, Belgian railways, Belfast magistracy, post offices, and applications for government posts; 40 items Jan. 1867

MS 43,851 /2 From correspondents S, includes John Slattery, Alexander Stewart, James Spaight, Stephen Shepherd, G.W. Studdard, and William Spaight. Subjects include membership of the Carlton Club, Antrim Poor Law Union, the Sick and Indigent Innkeepers Society, and government posts; 21 items Feb. 1867

MS 43,851 /3 From correspondents S, includes Henry Chetwynd Talbot, 18th Earl of Shewsbury, Sir James Stronge MP, George Henry Seymour MP, Alexander Stewart, James Spaight, and W.B. Smythe. Subjects include the provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, Saunders News Letter, and government posts; 26 items March 1867

MS 43,851 /4 From correspondents S, includes Rev. Sidney Smith, James Spaight, Thomas Smith, Harriet Sutton, John Staunton, Frederick Shaw, and Thomas George Stoney (with a copy of his Address … to the Small Farmers and Peasantry of the County of Tipperary). Subjects include a miscarriage of justice, a ballad in praise of the Irish Constabulary, and government posts; 26 items March 1867

MS 43,851 /5 From correspondents S, includes Richard Boyle, 4th Earl Shannon, Sir James Stronge MP, John Slattery, Loftus Shire, John Staunton, Thomas George Stoney, James Sadlier, and James Spaight. Subjects include Irish historical records, Sunday closing of public houses, policing, fisheries, and government posts; 37 items April 1867

MS 43,851 /6 From correspondents S, includes Lord William St. Lawrence, Sir James Stronge MP, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, Thomas Osbourne Stock MP, Edward Styles, James Spaight, William Smith, and G. Johnstone Stoney. Subjects include release of

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Fenian prisoners, Palmerstown Association, military forces in Ireland, Dunfanghy Poor Law Union, and government posts; 41 items May 1867

MS 43,851 /7 From correspondents S, includes John Edward Rous, 2nd Earl Stradbroke, Sir James Stronge MP, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, Colonel Edward Somerset MP, John Steel MP, Charles Seymour, Bruce Seton, Robert Savage, and W.B. Smythe. Subjects include Sunday closing, a proposed tramway through Connemara, the Compulsory Vaccination Act, and applications for government posts; 39 items June 1867

MS 43,852 /1 From correspondents S, includes Richard Boyle, 4th Earl Shannon, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, Colonel Edward Somerset MP, William Stack, Sub-Inspector Thomas Smith, William Steward, and Frederick Shaw. Subjects include the defence of police barracks, land improvement loans, the Salters’ Company of London, the Atlantic Telegraph Company, the distribution of police and troops, and government posts; 27 items July 1867

MS 43,852 /2 From correspondents S, includes George John Browne, 3rd Marquess Sligo, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, Frederick Shaw, Dr. Robert Stewart, T.H. Saunderson, Bruce Seton, George Smith, and John Stuart. Subjects include the Lunatic Asylums Bill, the condition of County Mayo, the Vice Consul at New York, Cockermouth constituency, and government posts; 27 items July 1867

MS 43,852 /3 From correspondents S, includes Sir James Stronge MP, Sir Robert Shaw, Digby Starkey, T.H. Saunderson, Frederick Shaw, William Speight, and Edward Shrapnel. Subjects include the Cockermouth constituency, the death of Richard Bourke, 5th Earl Mayo, Irish Church Commission, and government posts; 19 items Aug. 1867

MS 43,852 /4 From correspondents S, include Lord William St. Lawrence, Sir James Stronge MP, Sir Robert Shaw, Robert Staples, Richard Seabrook, S.G. Saul, T.H. Saunderson, G. Johnstone Stoney, and Edward Shrapnel. Subjects include the Cockermouth constituency, the Queen’s University, the Palmerstown Association, and government posts; 28 items Sep. 1867

MS 43,852 /5 From correspondents S, includes John Edward Rous, 2nd Earl Stradbroke, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, George Scott, Rev. Sidney Smith, S.G. Saul, Stephen Shepherd, and James Spaight. Subjects include the Cockermouth constituency, Queen’s

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College, Cork, and government posts; 25 items Sep. 1867

MS 43,852 /6 From correspondents S, includes Thomas Osbourne Stock MP, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, George Carr Selby, S.G. Saul, Commander James St. Leger, and G. Johnstone Stoney. Subjects include the Cockermouth constituency, spirit licenses, improvements to the Chief Secretary’s Lodge, lunatic asylums, and government posts; 39 items Oct. 1867

MS 43,852 /7 From correspondents S, includes Lord William St. Lawrence, Admiral George Henry Seymour MP, James Spaight, Charles Skelly, Michael Staunton, John Stringer, Francis Synge, William Stack, and Susan Smith. Subjects include the National Union of Conservative Associations, the Board of Works, the opening of Limerick Dock, and government posts; 32 items Nov. 1867

MS 43,852 /8 From correspondents S, includes Richard Boyle, 4th Earl Shannon, Sir James Stronge MP, Edward Sedgwick, Captain Robert Stokes, John Staunton, T.H. Saunderson, Edward Scully, and Susan Smith. Subjects include ‘Manchester Martyr’ processions, the Prisons Bill, the National Union of Conservative Associations, and government posts; 23 items Dec. 1867

I.i.6.q. From correspondents T MS 11,158 /14 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents T; 38 items Jan. 1867

MS 11,158 /15 From correspondents T; 27 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,158 /16 From correspondents T; 54 items March 1867

MS 11,158 /17 From correspondents T; 26 items April 1867

MS 11,158 /18 From correspondents T; 32 items May 1867

MS 11,158 /19 From correspondents T; 20 items June 1867

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MS 11,158 /20 From correspondents T; 26 items July 1867

MS 11,158 /21 From correspondents T; 24 items Aug. 1867

MS 11,158 /22 From correspondents T; 32 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,158 /23 From correspondents T; 22 items Oct. 1867

MS 11,158 /24 From correspondents T; 21 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,158 /25 From correspondents T; 30 items Dec. 1867

I.i.6.r. From correspondents U-V MS 43,853 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from correspondents U, includes Louisa Uniacke, Samuel Upton, Thomas Usbourne, and G.W. Underhill. Subjects include Admiralty ciphers and applications for church livings and government posts; 17 items 1867

MS 43,854 /1 From correspondents V, includes Colonel Crofton Vandeleur MP, John Vance MP, Sir Edward Wingfield Verner MP, and Sir William Verner MP. Subjects include postal messengers and government posts; 30 items Jan.-March 1867

MS 43,854 /2 From correspondents V, includes Colonel Crofton Vandeleur MP, John Vance MP, Frederick Villiers, John Vander Kiste, and Lt.-Colonel Vivian. Subjects include the Irish Reform Bill, requests for personal assistance, and government posts; 32 items April-June 1867

MS 43,854 /3 From correspondents V, include Colonel Crofton Vandeleur MP, John Vance MP, Sir William Verner MP, A.R. Venables, C.C. Vesey, John James Verschoyle, and William Richards Vowell. Subjects include the bishopric of Toronto, Tallaght post office, and government posts; 41 items July-Dec. 1867

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I.i.6.s. From correspondents W-Y MS 11,159 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from correspondents W; 49 items Jan. 1867

MS 11,159 /2 From correspondents W; 37 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,159 /3 From correspondents W; c.60 items March 1867

MS 11,159 /4-5 From correspondents W; c.75 items in 2 folders April 1867

MS 11,159 /6-7 From correspondents W; 77 items in 2 folders May 1867

MS 11,159 /8-9 From correspondents W; 57 items in 2 folders June 1867

MS 11,160 /1-2

From correspondents W; c.60 items in 2 folders July 1867

MS 11,160 /3-4 From correspondents W; c.100 items in 2 folders Aug. 1867

MS 11,160 /5 From correspondents W; 20 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,160 /6 From correspondents W; 55 items Oct. 1867

MS 11,160 /7 From correspondents W; 30 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,160 / 8-9 From correspondents W; 68 items in 2 folders Dec. 1867

MS 43,855 From correspondents Y, includes George Young, James Young, W. Muston Young, and H. Yeo. Subjects include applications for government posts; 7 items 1867

I.i.7. As Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1868

I.i.7.a. From correspondents A.

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MS 11,161 /9 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland, from correspondents A; 17 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,161 /10 From correspondents A; 16 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,161 /11 From correspondents A; 35 items March 1868

MS 11,161 /12 From correspondents A; 8 items April 1868

MS 11,161 /13 From correspondents A; 7 items May 1868

MS 11,161 /14 From correspondents A; 20 items June-July 1868

MS 11,161 /17 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo from Samuel Anderson; 24 items June-Oct. 1868

MS 11,161 /15 From correspondents A; 14 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,161 /16 From correspondents A; 11 items Sep.-Oct. 1868

I.i.7.b. From correspondents B MS 11,162 /1-2 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents B; 57 items in 2 folders Jan. 1868

MS 11,162 /3-4 From correspondents B; 53 items in 2 folders Feb. 1868

MS 11,162 /5-7 From correspondents B; c.90 items in 3 folders March 1868

MS 11,162 /8 From correspondents B; 24 items April 1868

MS 11,162 /9-10 From correspondents B; 58 items in 2 folders May 1868

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MS 11,162 /11-12

From correspondents B; 26 items in 2 folders June 1868

MS 11,162 /13-14

From correspondents B; 65 items in 2 folders July 1868

MS 11,162 /15-16

From correspondents B; c.60 items in 2 folders Aug. 1868

MS 11,162 /17 From correspondents B; 59 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,162 /18 From correspondents B; 17 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.c. From correspondents C MS 11,163 /1-2 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents C; 49 items in 2 folders Jan. 1868

MS 11,163 /3 From correspondents C; 40 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,163 /4-5 From correspondents C; 76 items in 2 folders March 1868

MS 11,163 /6 From correspondents C; c.50 items April 1868

MS 11,163 /7-8 From correspondents C; 77 items in 2 folders May 1868

MS 11,163 /9 From correspondents C; 33 items June 1868

MS 11,163 /10 From correspondents C; c.60 items July 1868

MS 11,163 /11-12

From correspondents C; 63 items in 2 folders Aug. 1868

MS 11,163 /13 From correspondents C; 57 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,163 /14 From correspondents C; 7 items Oct. 1868

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I.i.7.d. From correspondents D MS 11,164 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents D; 36 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,164 /2 From correspondents D; 35 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,164 /3 From correspondents D; 56 items March 1868

MS 11,164 /4 From correspondents D; 41 items April 1868

MS 11,164 /5 From correspondents D; 39 items May 1868

MS 11,164 /6 From correspondents D; 29 items June 1868

MS 11,164 /7 From correspondents D; 35 items July 1868

MS 11,164 /8 From correspondents D; 31 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,164 /9 From correspondents D; 31 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,164 /10 From correspondents D; 10 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.e. From correspondents E-F MS 11,165 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents E-F; 27 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,165 /2 From correspondents E-F; 7 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,165 /3 From correspondents E-F; 30 items March 1868

MS 11,165 /4 From correspondents E-F; 17 items

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April 1868

MS 11,165 /5 From correspondents E-F; 18 items May 1868

MS 11,165 /6 From correspondents E-F; 37 items June 1868

MS 11,165 /7 From correspondents E-F includes some rental accounts; 29 items July 1868

MS 11,165 /8 From correspondents E-F; 19 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,165 /9 From correspondents E-F; 20 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,165 /10 From correspondents E-F; 10 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.f. From correspondents G MS 11,166 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents G; 34 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,166 /2 From correspondents G; 22 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,166 /3 From correspondents G; 26 items March 1868

MS 11,166 /4 From correspondents G; 12 items April 1868

MS 11,166 /5 From correspondents G; 10 items May 1868

MS 11,166 /6 From correspondents G; 14 items June 1868

MS 11,166 /7 From correspondents G; 20 items July 1868

MS 11,166 /8 From correspondents G; 20 items Aug. 1868

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MS 11,166 /10 From correspondents G; 5 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.g. From correspondents H MS 11,167 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary of

Ireland from correspondents H; 68 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,167 /2 From correspondents H; 34 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,167 /3 From correspondents H; 41 items March 1868

MS 11,167 /4 From correspondents H; 38 items April 1868

MS 11,167 /5 From correspondents H; 51 items May 1868

MS 11,167 /6 From correspondents H; 35 items June 1868

MS 11,167 /7 From correspondents H; 62 items July 1868

MS 11,167 /8 From correspondents H; 29 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,167 /9 From correspondents H; 54 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,167 /10 From correspondents H; 8 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.h. From correspondents I-K MS 11,168 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents I-K; 26 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,168 /2 From correspondents I-K; 18 items Feb. 1868

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MS 11,168 /4 From correspondents I-K; 39 items

March 1868

MS 11,168 /5 From correspondents I-K; 20 items April 1868

MS 11,168 /6 From correspondents I-K; 43 items May 1868

MS 11,168 /7 From correspondents I-K; 14 items June 1868

MS 11,168 /8 From correspondents I-K; 27 items July 1868

MS 11,168 /9 From correspondents I-K; 12 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,168 /10 From correspondents I-K; 33 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,168 /11 From correspondents I-K; 7 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.i. From correspondents L MS 11,169 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents L; 24 items Jan 1868

MS 11,169 /2 From correspondents L; 21 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,169 /3 From correspondents L; 42 items March 1868

MS 11,169 /4 From correspondents L; 22 items April 1868

MS 11,169 /5 From correspondents L; 42 items May 1868

MS 11,169 /6 From correspondents L; 54 items June 1868

MS 11,169 /7 From correspondents L; 26 items July 1868

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MS 11,169 /8 From correspondents L; 25 items

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MS 11,169 /10 From correspondents L; 14 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.j. From correspondents M MS 11,170 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents M; 63 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,170 /2 From correspondents M; 60 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,170 /3 From correspondents M; 50 items March 1868

MS 11,170 /4 From correspondents M; c.45 items April 1868

MS 11,170 /5 From correspondents M; 43 items May 1868

MS 11,170 /6 From correspondents M; 26 items June 1868

MS 11,170 /7 From correspondents M; c.60 items July 1868

MS 11,170 /8 From correspondents M; 38 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,170 /9 From correspondents M; 56 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,170 /10 From correspondents M; 20 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.k. From correspondents N-O MS 11,171 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

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Ireland form correspondents N-O; 37 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,171 /2 From correspondents N-O; 39 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,171 /3 From correspondents N-O; 45 items March 1868

MS 11,171 /4 From correspondents N-O; 25 items April 1868

MS 11,171 /5 From correspondents N-O; 20 items May 1868

MS 11,171 /6 From correspondents N-O; 14 items June 1868

MS 11,171 /7 From correspondents N-O; 38 items July 1868

MS 11,171 /8 From correspondents N-O; 12 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,171 /9 From correspondents N-O; 37 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,171 /10 From correspondents N-O; 7 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.l. From correspondents P-R MS 11,172 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents P-R; 37 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,172 /2 From correspondents P-R; c.60 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,172 /3 From correspondents P-R; 37 items March 1868

MS 11,172 /4 From correspondents P-R; 30 items April 1868

MS 11,172 /5 From correspondents P-R; 64 items May 1868

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MS 11,172 /6 From correspondents P-R; 23 items June 1868

MS 11,172 /7 From correspondents P-R; 62 items July 1868

MS 11,172 /8 From correspondents P-R; 20 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,172 /9 From correspondents P-R; c.60 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,172 /10 From correspondents P-R; 11 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.m. From correspondents S MS 11,173 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents S; c.60 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,173 /2 From correspondents S; 61 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,173 /3 From correspondents S; 43 items March 1868

MS 11,173 /4 From correspondents S; 20 items April 1868

MS 11,173 /5 From correspondents S; 38 items May 1868

MS 11,173 /6 From correspondents S; 38 items June 1868

MS 11,173 /7 From correspondents S; c.40 items July 1868

MS 11,173 /8 From correspondents S; c.50 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,173 /9 From correspondents S; 41 items Sep. 1868

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I.i.7.n. From correspondents T MS 11,174 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents T; 37 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,174 /2 From correspondents T; 20 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,174 /3 From correspondents T; 11 items March 1868

MS 11,174 /4 From correspondents T; 37 items April 1868

MS 11,174 /5-6 From correspondents T; 18 items May 1868

MS 11,174 /7 From correspondents T; 19 items June 1868

MS 11,174 /8-9 From correspondents T; 27 items July 1868

MS 11,174 /10 From correspondents T; 14 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,174 /11 From correspondents T; 22 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,174 /12 From correspondents T; 8 items Oct. 1868

I.i.7.m. From correspondents U-W MS 11,175 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from correspondents U-W; c.50 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,175 /2 From correspondents U-W; 41 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,175 /3 From correspondents U-W; 51 items March 1868

MS 11,175 /4 From correspondents U-W; 29 items

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April 1868

MS 11,175 /5 From correspondents U-W; 28 items May 1868

MS 11,175 /6 From correspondents U-W; 30 items June 1868

MS 11,175 /7 From correspondents U-W; 44 items July 1868

MS 11,175 /8 From correspondents U-W; 21 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,175 /9 From correspondents U-W; 57 items Sep. 1868

MS 11,175 /10 From correspondents U-W; 7 items Oct. 1868

I.ii. Individual correspondents

I.ii.1. James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn later 1st Duke Abercorn James Hamilton (1811-85) served twice as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1866-8 and again from 1874-6. He succeeded as 2nd Marquess Abercorn in 1818 and created 1st Duke Abercorn 1868. He held estates in Londonderry and Donegal, where he served as Lord Lieutenant from 1844-85. He was also Grand Master of Freemasons of Ireland (1874-85) and Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland (1881-5). MS 43,856 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary of Ireland, from James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Subjects include the Tipperary election, defences for Dublin Castle, the distribution of troops, the provostship of Trinity College, Dublin, the chancellorship of the Queen’s University, and Enniscorthy Lunatic Asylum; 18 items Aug. 1866-Feb. 1867

MS 43,856 /2 Letters, subjects include the new Privy Council, legal appointments, crown solicitors, the resignation of the Lord Chancellor, and the Lord Mayor’s dinner; 15 items Feb.-March 1867

MS 43,856 /3 Letters, subjects include police barracks, clerical appointments, the Land Bill, the “Queen’s Irish Cross”, press speculation about his resignation, and nominees for government posts; 19 items April-May 1867

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MS 11,161 /1 Letters; 5 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,161 /2 Letters; 17 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,161 /3 Letters; 10 items March 1868

MS 11,161 /4 Letters; 5 items April 1868

MS 11,161 /5 Letters; 21 items May 1868

MS 11,161 /6 Letters; 1 item June 1868

MS 11,161 /7 Letters; 5 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,161 /8 Letters; 11 items Sep.-Oct. 1868

I.ii.2. Abraham Brewster Abraham Brewster (1796-1874) was Solicitor-General (1846) and Attorney-General for Ireland (1853-5). He also served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1867-8. MS 43,857 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary of Ireland, from Abraham Brewster. Subjects include the appointment of a crown solicitor, and a ‘Manchester Martyrs’ demonstration and robberies of arms in Cork; 6 items 1865-1867

MS 43,857 /2 Letters, subjects include Ballincollig powder mill, the speeches of George Train, the appointment of a judge for the North Eastern circuit, the visit of the Prince of Wales to Ireland, and patronage matters; 16 items Jan.-March 1868

MS 43,857 /3 Letters, subjects include Cardinal Paul Cullen and the visit of the Prince of Wales to Ireland, the release of Fenian prisoners, the prosecution of A.M. Sullivan and Richard Pigott, the Queen’s Colleges, and patronage matters, with associated letters from Robert Christian Edward Berwick, and Luke Gerald Dillon; 21 items April-May 1868

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MS 43,857 /4 Letters, subjects include the visit of the Prince of Wales to

Ireland, the prosecution of A.M. Sullivan and Richard Pigott, appointments under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, a general election, and the condition of Ulster; 19 items May-July 1868

MS 43,857 /5 Letters, subjects include Mayo’s appointment as Viceroy of India, the legal administration of Ireland, and various legal appointments; 10 items Sep.-Oct. 1868

I.ii.3. Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglinton and 1st Earl Winton Archibald Montgomerie (1812-62) was a strong Tory politician, he served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for most of 1852 and again from February 1858 to June 1859. MS 11,031 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland

from Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglinton and 1st Earl Winton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; 12 items March-April 1852

MS 11,031 /2 Letters; 8 items May 1852

MS 11,031 /3 Letters; 14 items June 1852

MS 11,031 /4 Letters; 14 items July-Sep. 1852

MS 11,031 /5 Letters; 7 items Oct.-Nov. 1852

MS 11,031 /6 Letters; 10 items Oct.-Dec. 1852

MS 11,031 /7 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglinton and 1st Earl Winton; 8 items 1853-4

MS 11,031 /8 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglinton and 1st Earl Winton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; 9 items March 1858

MS 11,031 /9 Letters; 12 items April 1858

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MS 11,031 /10 Letters; 11 items May 1858

MS 11,031 /11 Letters; 13 items 1-13 June 1858

MS 11,031 /12 Letters; 16 items 14-30 June 1858

MS 11,031 /13 Letters; 16 items July 1858

MS 11,031 /14 Letters; 20 items Aug.-Dec. 1858

MS 11,031 /15 Letters; 9 items 2-8 Feb. 1859

MS 11,031 /16 Letters; 8 items 9-20 Feb. 1859

MS 11,031 /17 Letters; 11 items 21-29 Feb. 1859

MS 11,031 /18 Letters; 15 items 2-14 March 1859

MS 11/031 /19 Letters; 12 items 15-30 March 1859

MS 11/031 /20 Letters; 7 items April 1859

MS 11,031 /21 Letters; 2 items June 1859

I.ii.4. Sir Thomas Larcom

Thomas Larcom (1801-79) served as a senior officer of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland (1824-48) and was Under Secretary of State for Ireland between 1853 and 1869.

MS 11,190 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from Sir Thomas Larcom, Under Secretary for Ireland; 13 items March 1858

MS 11,190 /2-4 Letters; 22 items in 3 folders

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MS 11,190 /5-6 Letters; 17 items in 2 folders May 1858

MS 11,190 /7-10 Letters; 38 items in 4 folders June 1858

MS 11,190 /11-13

Letters; 39 items in 3 folders July 1858

MS 11,190 /14 Letters; 3 items Aug. 1858

MS 11,190 /15 Letters; 15 items Nov. – Dec. 1858

MS 11,190 /16-18

Letters; 41 items in 3 folders Feb. 1859

MS 11,190 /19-22

Letters; 55 items in 4 folders March 1859

MS 11,190 /23 Letters; 13 items April 1859

MS 11,190 /24 Letters; 7 items June 1859

MS 43,860 /1 Letters, subjects include the Registry of Deeds, prison wardenships, party processions, the Bakehouses’ Regulation Act, the presidency of the Queen’s College, Cork, the Curragh, and the state of the country; 34 items July 1866

MS 43,860 /2 Letters, subjects include retirement pensions, the Queen’s Colleges, police reports, the disposition of military forces, legal defence for Colonel Fielding, the Fishery Board, sheriffs’ lists, coastal defence, and the Waterford parliamentary election, with a memorandum on education; 31 items Aug.-Dec. 1866

MS 43,860 /3 Letters, subjects include prostitution at the Curragh Camp, a letter from General Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (Commander-in-Chief, Ireland) to James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), the Irish in England, and the police barracks at Killarney; 7 items 1867-8

MS 11,191 /1-2 Letters; 26 items in 2 folders

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MS 11,191 /3-4 Letters; 46 items in 2 folders Feb. 1867

MS 11,191 /5-6 Letters; 33 items in 2 folders March 1867

MS 11,191 /7 Letters; 15 items April 1867

MS 11,191 /8-9 Letters; 39 items in 2 folders May 1867

MS 11,191 /10-11

Letters; 38 items in 2 folders June 1867

MS 11,191 /12-14

Letters; 45 items in 3 folders July 1867

MS 11,191 /15-16

Letters; 26 item in 2 folders Aug. 1867

MS 11,191 /17 Letters; 12 items Sep. – Oct. 1867

MS 11,191 /18-19

Letters; 31 items in 2 folders Nov. 1867

MS 11,191 /20 Letters; 14 items Dec. 1867

MS 11,191 /21 Letters; 5 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,191 /22-23

Letters; 25 items in 2 folders Feb. 1868

MS 11,191 /24-25

Letters; 23 items in 2 folders March 1868

MS 11,191 /26 Letters; 3 items April 1868

MS 11,191 /27 Letters; 17 items May 1868

MS 11,191 /28 Letters; 15 items June 1868

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MS 11,191 /29 Letters; 21 items July 1868

MS 11,191 /30 Letters; 12 items Aug. 1868

MS 11,191 /31 Letters; 5 items Sep. – Oct. 1868

I.ii.5. Thomas Edward Taylor Thomas Edward Taylor (1811-83) was Conservative MP for Dublin County (1841-83) and served as Lord of the Treasury (1858-9), Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (1866-8), and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1868, 1874-80). MS 43,861 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland from Colonel Thomas Edward Taylor and Richard Clement (his private secretary). Subjects include the vacant bishopric of Meath, and applications for government offices, with associated letters from John Clotworthy Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene, William O’Neill, J.G. Morrison, and others; 36 items July 1866

MS 43,861 /2 Letters, subjects include the appointment of the Master of the Rolls, and applications for government offices, with associated letters from J.H. Parkinson, Jane Webb, and others; 30 items Aug. 1866

MS 43,861 /3 Letters, subjects include the Tipperary election, medical inspectorships, and vacant post offices, with associated letters from Michael Morris MP (Solicitor General for Ireland), Sir Robert Carden, Laurence Waldron, R.H. Smith Barry, and others; 22 items Sep. 1866

MS 43,861 /4 Letters and telegrams, subjects include the Tipperary election, and applications for government offices, with associated letters from Michael Morris MP, Laurence Waldron, John Pope Hennessy, and E. Ryley; 25 items Sep 1866

MS 43,861 /5 Letters, subjects include the Tipperary election, applications for government offices, and a cabinet meeting, with associated letters from Michael Morris MP, William Stuart Knox MP, and E. Ryley; 36 items Oct. 1866

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MS 43,861 /6 Letters, subjects include applications for posts, and various political matters, with associated letters from Charles Arundel, George Maunsell, and others; 17 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,861 /7 Letters, subjects include questions of public administration, the Waterford election, and applications for posts, with associated letters from Henry James MacFarlane, Theo Ryland and J. Bagge Hearne; 29 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,861 /8 Letters, subjects include vacant post offices and nominations for government posts, with a telegram from Sir John Gray concerning the Vartry Resevoir; 10 items 1867

MS 43,861 /9 Letters, subjects include the general election and other political matters, with associated letters from Hayes St. Leger, 4th Viscount Doneraile, Hugh Hamilton and Percy Beamish; 36 items Aug.- Sep. 1868

I.ii.6. Robert Richard Warren Robert Richard Warren (1817-97) was Conservative MP for Dublin University (1867-8) and served as Solicitor-General (1867) and Attorney-General for Ireland (1867-8) before being appointed a high court judge. MS 43,859 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for

Ireland from Robert Richard Warren. Subjects include the prosecution of A.M. Sullivan and Richard Pigott, party processions and the prosecution of William Johnson of Ballykilbeg, meetings of the Protestant Defence Association, and the case of William J. Nagle; 36 items Jan.-Feb. 1868

MS 43,859 /2 Letters, subjects include the Jacknel expedition and the trial of William J. Nagle, legal affairs, and the suppression of party processions, with associated letters and papers; 20 items March-April 1868

MS 43,859 /3 Letters, subjects include the Bankruptcy Court, the appointment of crown solicitors and various legal offices; 24 items Aug.-Sep. 1868

I.ii.7. John Arthur Wynne

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John Arthur Wynne (1801-65) was a member of parliament from 1830, as well as high sheriff of county Leitrim (1834) and county Sligo (1840) he inherited his father’s estates in 1841. He held the position of Under Secretary for Ireland from 1852-3. MS 11,029 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland from John Arthur Wynne, Under Secretary for Ireland; 7 items March-April 1852

MS 11,029 /2

Letters; 13 items May 1852

MS 11,029 /3

Letters; 20 items June 1852

MS 11,029 /4

Letters; 7 items Aug.-Sep. 1852

MS 11,029 /5-7

Letters; 30 items in 3 folders Nov. 1852

MS 11,029 /8

Letters; 23 items in 2 folders Dec. 1852

MS 11,029 /10

Letters; 4 items Jan 1853

I.ii.8. Other politicians MS 43,858 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland, from Hedges Eyre Chatterton MP, Attorney-General for Ireland. Subjects include law appointments, the Admiralty Court, nominees for church livings and government appointments, Irish business in the House of Commons, and the Dublin University election; 25 items 1866-7 [Some items fragile]

MS 43,862 Letters from General Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (Commander-in-Chief, Ireland). Subjects include Killarney Workhouse, police duties, the military command at Limerick, Waterford parliamentary election, and the inquiry into the Dungarvan election riot; 10 items 1866-7

MS 43,863 Letters concerning personal and political matters from Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby, James St. Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Roslyn, Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne, 2nd Baron Oranmore and Browne, Rudolph Fielding, 8th Earl Denbeigh, Edward O’Neill

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MP, James Whiteside (Chief Justice of Ireland), William Peel and Edgar Wilson; 30 items 1866-8

I.iii. Letter registers and copy books MS 11,927 Letter register of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for

Ireland. In the back are notes on appointments made in the public service, with notes on salaries; 80pp 1866-8

MS 11,170 /11 Letter copy book of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary of Ireland; c.100pp 27 Jan. – 16 March 1868

MS 11,170 /12 Letter copy book; c.100pp 18 March – 12 May 1868

II. OFFICIAL PAPERS, CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND

II.i. Legislation

II.i.1. Clerks of Petty Sessions Act, 1858 MS 11,032 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas with associated papers concerning the Clerks of Petty Sessions Act, 1858; 13 items March 1858

MS 11,032 /2-3

Letters with associated papers; 30 items in 2 folders April 1858

MS 11,032 /4

Letters with associated papers; 2 items May 1858

MS 11,032 /5-6

Letters with associated papers; 42 items in 2 folders June 1858

MS 11,032 /7

Letters with associated papers; 3 items July 1858

MS 11,032 /8

Printed copies of the Clerks of Petty Sessions Bill, 1858, with associated items; 9 items 1858

MS 11,032 /9

Papers relating to the Clerks of Petty Sessions Act, 1858; 9 items 1858

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MS 11,032 /10

Papers; 4 items 1858

MS 11,032 /11

Papers; 6 items 1858

MS 11,032 /12

Reports on the Clerk of Petty Sessions Act, 1858; 3 items 1858

MS 11,032 /13

File of return of fees and plans for union of Clerkship, Petty Sessions Clerks; 34 pp 1858

II.i.2. Ecclesiastical Court and Registrars Bill, 1859 MS 11,040 /1

Documents relating to the Ecclesiastical Court and Registrars Bill 1859; 24 items 1859

MS 11,040 /2

Documents relating to the Ecclesiastical Court and Registrars Bill 1859; 12 items 1859

II.i.3. Franchise Reform, 1865-8 MS 11,209 /1 Printed documentation with manuscript notes relating to various

franchise reform bills; 10 items 1865-8

MS 11,209 /2 Letters and associated documents relating to franchise reform; 13 items 1865-8

MS 43,866 /1 Letters concerning the franchise and the Irish Reform Bill, correspondents include Gathorne hardy MP (Home Secretary), William Kernaghan, J. Bagge Hearn, Stafford Northcote MP (Secretary of State for India), Jonathan Pim MP, Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis, and John Norwood, with notes, and a memorandum by John Stephen Dwyer; 18 items 1868

MS 43,866 /2 Letters concerning the Irish Reform Bill, correspondents include Theodore Ryland, Sir Henry James MP, and Sir Richard Griffith (Commissioner of Valuation), with notes, memoranda, and a copy of a pamphlet on parliamentary reform (1866); 17 items

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MS 43,866 /3 Petitions to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo concerning matters arising from the Irish Reform Bill from the inhabitants of the towns of Dunmanaway, Co. Cork, and the town commissioners of Kingstown, co. Dublin; 6 items 1868

MS 43,866 /4 Notes, memoranda, returns of electoral statistics, and maps concerning the consequences of the Irish Reform Bill for the municipal boroughs of Ireland; 14 items 1868

MS 43,866 /5 Confidential government memoranda and parliamentary returns relating to agricultural holdings, the distribution of parliamentary seats, and rating for the relief of the poor in Ireland, and a memorandum with reference to the Scottish Reform Bill of 1868; 11 items 1868

MS 43,866 /6 Confidential government memorandum and parliamentary returns concerning electors, electoral statistics, and universities in Ireland; 7 items 1866-8

MS 43,866 /7 Parliamentary notice papers concerning amendments to the Representation of the People (Ireland) Bill; 2 items 1868

MS 43,866 /8 Copies of Chichester Fortescue’s Irish Reform Bill (1866) and the Reform Bill for England and Wales (1867); 2 items 1866-7

MS 43,866 /9 Confidential drafts of a ‘Bill to Amend the Representation of the People in Ireland’, with an amended copy of the Representation of the People (Ireland) Bill, and a copy of the Rateable Property (Ireland) Bill; 7 items 1866 & 1868

MS 43,866 /10 Maps of electoral districts and indicating the distribution of parliamentary seats in Ireland, with particular reference to counties Cork and Dublin; 4 items 1868

II.i.4. Land Reform, 1865-8

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Memorandum, reports and Bills are listed first chronologically, followed by the correspondence on the issue, which has been organised alphabetically by correspondent. MS 11,211 /1 Memoranda concerning government aid to encourage the creation

of an independent proprietary of small freehold estates in Ireland, including a copy of an article on John Stuart Mill and landholding in France entitled Les Progres by Edmond About (1864), 5 items c.1864-7

MS 11,211 /10 Copy of Tenure (Ireland) Bill, 1867, Tenure Improvements (Ireland) Bill, 1867 and Address to House of Commons by Prince Edward Island’s Assembly, Canada, asking for commission into landlord tenant relations, 1864; 3 items 1864-7

MS 11,211 /4 Letters and papers relating to the Lands Improvement Company’s Acts; 14 items c.1865-6

MS 11,211 /2 Copy of Tenure (Ireland) Bill, 1866, Tenure and Improvement of Land (Ireland) Bill, 1866, and Tenure (Ireland) Bill, 1868; 3 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /3 Letters and papers relating to Land Reform; 9 items c. 1867

MS 11,211 /6 Documents relating to land reform; includes Land Improvement Company papers, and documents on drainage in Rathdowney District, Queen’s county; 39 items c.1867-8

MS 11,211 /7 Letters and reports relating to land reform; 8 items 1867

MS 11,211 /8 Letters and bills relating to land reform; 16 items 1867-8

MS 11,211 /9 Letters and bills relating to land reform, includes booklet on The Land Question in Ireland by Jonathan Pim, MP, 1867; 12 items 1867-8

MS 11,211 /5 Letters and papers relating to loans available under Land Improvement Acts; 7 items c.1868

MS 11,211 /11 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from correspondents A-Bo; concerning the land bills, with a copy of ‘A Bill to amend the Laws relating to the Tenure and Improvement of Land in Ireland’; 13 items

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MS 11,211 /12 Letters from correspondents Br-CA; 6 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /13 Letters from correspondents Ch-Dar; 9 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /14 Letters from correspondents Day-Dw; 8 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /15 Letters from correspondents E-Ga; 9 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /16 Letters from correspondents Ga-Gr; 13 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /17 Letters from correspondents Gr-H; 15 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /18 Letters from correspondents K-Li; 17 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /19 Letters from correspondents Lo-Lu; 16 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /20 Letters from correspondents M; 12 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /21 Letters from correspondents N-P; 16 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /22 Letters from correspondents R-V; 11 items 1866-8

MS 11,211 /23 Letters from correspondents W; 9 items 1866-8

II.i.5. Disease Prevention Acts, 1866-68 MS 11,204 /1 Papers relating to the control of cholera by the Poor Law Unions;

9 items 1866

MS 11,204 /2 Letters and documents relating to the control of infectious diseases; 22 items 1866-8

MS 11,204 /3 Proclamation following the Cattle Disease Prevention Act, 1866;

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1 item 1866

II.i.6. Closing of Public Houses on Sundays Bill, 1867 MS 11,205 /1 Letters and documents relating to the Closing of Public Houses on

Sundays Bill; 37 items 1867

MS 11,205 /2 Letters and documents; 22 items 1867

II.i.7. Curragh of Kildare Act, 1868 MS 11,222 /1-2 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland, relating to the Curragh of Kildare Act, includes copy of bill; 38 items in 2 folders 1866-8

MS 11,222 /3 Letters, notes and memorandum relating to the Curragh of Kildare Act, 1868, mainly from the War Office; 41 items 1866-8

MS 11,222 /4 Notes and memorandum relating to the Curragh of Kildare Act, 1868; 9 items 1866-8

MS 11,222 /5 Report of Commissioners on Curragh of Kildare (4 items), Report from the Select Committee with minutes of evidence and a copy of Curragh of Kildare Bill; 7 items 1866-8

MS 11,222 /6 Copies of Curragh of Kildare Bills, with handwritten annotations (5 items), Clauses to be inserted into the Bill and report of the Commissioners into the Curragh of Kildare; 7 items 1866-8

MS 43,865 /4 Draft copy of a ‘Bill to Make better Provision for the Management and Use of the Curragh of Kildare’, with a report of the Commissioners of the Curragh; 2 items 1866-7

II.i.8. Separation of parts of Belfast from county Down, 1868

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MS 11,224 /1

Copy of the Bill ‘to separate for certain purposes portions of the Borough of Belfast from the county of Down’; 7pp 1868

MS 11,224 /2 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland, relating to the separation of parts of Belfast from county Down; 10 items 1868

MS L 118 Memorials of the inhabitants and rate payers of that part of Belfast situated in the country of Down; 2 items 1868 [one memorial is fragmented]

II.i.9. Other Bills MS 11,041 Letters and reports relating to the Home-made Spirits in Bond

Bill; 15 items 1850-3

MS 11,192 /1

Two copies of Draft bill for ‘Laws relating to the Valuation of rateable property in Ireland’ with handwritten annotations; 2 items 1852

MS 11,192 /2 Letters and reports relating to the Valuations (Ireland) Act,1852; 14 items 1852

MS 11,185

Manuscript copy of ‘An act further to amend several acts relating to the temporalities of the Church in Ireland’; 53pp c. 1855

MS 11,035

Documents relating to the County Surveyors Act, 1858; 7 items 1858

MS 11,038

Documents concerning the Rateable Property Act, 1858, 14 items 1858

MS 11,177

Letters and documents concerning the Lunatic Poor (Ireland) Bill; 12 items 1859

MS 11,195

Letters and documents relating to the Regulation of Dogs (Ireland) Act, 1865, and records of the registrations of dogs; 27 items 1865-8

MS 11,193 Documents relating to the Constabulary Act, 1866; 10 items

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MS 43,865 /2 Copies of a ‘Bill to Amend the Laws relating to Inland Fisheries in Ireland’, 2 items 1866

MS 43,865 /3 Letters to Lord Naas from J. Ball Greene (Superintendent of the General Survey and Valuation of Ireland) relating to the Rateable Property Bill, with a letter from Chichester Fortescue (Chief Secretary for Ireland) to the Secretary of the Treasury, and a copy of a ‘Bill to Consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland’, 6 items 1866-7

MS 11,242

Documents concerning the Grand Jury Presentments Bill; 12 items 1866-8

MS 11,197

Documents concerning the Local Officers Superannuation (Ireland) Bill, including; 9 items 1867

MS 11,255 /3 Abstract of a Bill to provide for the education of the poorer classes; 2 items 1867

MS 11,230

Documents concerning the District Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Bill; 7 items 1867

MS 43,865 /5 Letters and papers relating to the Blackrock Road, County of Dublin Bill, correspondents include John Hill, Angelo Hayes, R.M. Bland, and W.J. Henry (Town Clerk of Dublin), with resolutions of the Dublin Grand Jury, a memorial to the Lord Lieutenant, and a copy of the Bill; 12 items 1867

MS 11,231

Documents concerning the Burial (Ireland) Act, 1868; 16 items 1867-8

MS 11,196

Documents relating to the Expiring Laws Continuance Act; 3 items 1868

MS 11,233

Observations on a proposed bill for the payment of wages in coin of the realm only; 2pp [undated]

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II.ii. Elections

II.ii.1. County Kildare Election, 1848 MS 11,028 /1

Letters and accounts relating to the election campaign of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas in county Kildare; 41 items 1848

MS 11,028 /2

Letters and accounts; 36 items 1848

MS 11,028 /3

Letters and accounts; 13 items 1848

MS 11,028 /4

Letters and accounts; 24 items 1848

MS 11,028 /5

Letters and accounts; 36 items 1848

II.ii.2. General Election, 1852

II.ii.2.a. Police Reports The abstract from the police reports (MS 11,037 1-3) are arranged chronologically, following this the full reports are listed alphabetically by county. MS 11,037 /1

Abstracts from police reports concerning the general elections; 14 items 14-31 July 1852

MS 11,037 /2

Abstracts; 11 items 3-16 Aug. 1852

MS 11,037 /3

Abstracts; 14 items 18 Aug.-13 Oct. 1852

MS 11,037 /4

Police reports on conditions in counties Armagh and Antrim; 12 items July 1852

MS 11,037 /5

Police reports on conditions in county Carlow; 2pp 6 Aug. 1852

MS 11,037 /6

Police report on conditions in county Cavan; 2pp 11 Sep. 1852

MS 11,037 /7 Police reports on conditions in county Clare; 11 items

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MS 11,037 /8

Police reports on conditions in county Clare; 11 items 24 July – 8 Sep. 1852

MS 11,037 /9

Police reports on conditions in county Cork; 9 items 4-13 July 1852

MS 11,037 /10

Police reports on conditions in county Cork; 5 items 14 July – 7 Nov. 1852

MS 11,037 /11

Police reports on conditions in county Donegal; 3 items 23 July – 3 Aug. 1852

MS 11,037 /12

Police reports on conditions in county Down; 8 items 1-22 July 1852

MS 11,037 /13

Police reports on conditions in county Down; 8 items 23 July – 3 Aug. 1852

MS 11,037 /14

Police reports on conditions in county Dublin; 4 items 12 July – 12 Aug. 1852

MS 11,037 /15

Police report on conditions in county Fermanagh; 2pp 2 July 1852

MS 11,037 /16

Police reports on conditions in county Galway; 3 items 11 July – 10 Oct. 1852

MS 11,037 /17

Police reports on conditions in county Kilkenny; 3 items 23 July – 4 Aug. 1852

MS 11,037 /18

Police reports on conditions in county Leitrim; 14 items 11 July – 10 Oct. 1852

MS 11,037 /19

Police report on conditions in Queens’ County (County Leix/Laois); 4pp 1 July 1852

MS 11,037 /20

Police reports on conditions in county Limerick; 8 items 12-26 July 1852

MS 11,037 /21

Police reports on conditions in county Longford; 10 items 12-22 July 1852

MS 11,037 /22

Police reports on conditions in county Louth; 5 items 4-31 July 1852

MS 11,037 /23

Police reports on conditions in county Mayo; 4 items 23-31 July 1852

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MS 11,037 /24

Police reports on conditions in county Meath; 2 items 5 July – 22 Sept. 1852

MS 11,037 /25

Police reports on conditions in county Monaghan; 3 items 18 – 24 July 1852

MS 11,037 /26

Police reports on conditions in King’s County (county Offaly); 11 items 4 July – 20 Oct. 1852

MS 11,037 /27

Police reports on conditions in county Roscommon; 2 items 5 July 1852

MS 11,037 /28

Police reports on conditions in county Sligo; 13 items 11 July – 6 Sep. 1852

MS 11,037 /29 Police reports on conditions in county Tipperary; 8 items 4 July – 15 Aug. 1852

MS 11,037 /30

Police reports on conditions in county Tyrone; 3 items 1-2 July 1852

MS 11,037 /31

Police reports on conditions in counties Waterford, Westmeath and Wexford; 7 items 10 July – 7 Sep. 1852

II.ii.2.b. Letters and Accounts MS 11,176 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas concerning the general election of 1852, 9 items April - Oct. 1852

MS 11,176 /2

Memorial to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from the electors of Coleraine on his success in the general election of 1852; 1p 29 March 1852 [some damage to folds of papers]

MS 11,184 Report on an election meeting in county Kilkenny; 40 pp 18 July 1852

MS 11,176 /3-4

Vouchers and accounts of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from his election campaign in Coleraine; 21 items in 2 folders 1852

MS 11,926

Memorandum book of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas containing a register of electors in Coleraine borough; 32 pp 1852

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II.ii.3. General Election, 1859 MS 11,036 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from correspondents A – Cl relating to the general election of 1859; 21 items 1859

MS 11,036 /2

Letters from correspondents Cl – Crof; 10 items 1859

MS 11,036 /3

Letters from correspondents Crow –Cv; 10 items 1859

MS 11,036 /4

Letters from Disraeli, Col. Dickenson and ‘Dobbs’; 7 items 1859

MS 11,036 /5

Letters from Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 4th Earl Donoughmore and Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess Downshire; 15 items 1859

MS 11,036 /6

Letters from correspondents E-F; 9 items 1859

MS 11,036 /7

Letters from correspondents G-H; 10 items 1859

MS 11,036 /8

Letters from correspondents I-L; 14 items 1859

MS 11,036 /9

Letters from correspondents M; 15 items 1859

MS 11,036 /10

Letters from correspondents Mc; 9 items 1859

MS 11,036 /11

Letters from correspondents R; 12 items 1859

MS 11,036 /12

Letters from correspondents S; 13 items 1859

MS 11,036 /13

Letters from correspondents T; 32 items 1859

MS 11,036 /14

Letters from correspondents V-W; 21 items 1859

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II.ii.4. Election Riots, 1866

MS 11,210 /1 Reports of riots at Cappagh, count Waterford in December 1866;

6 items 1867

MS 11,210 /2 Documents and reports of inquest at Dungarvan, county Waterford; 18 items 1867

MS 11,210 /2 Letters relating to the inquest at Dungarvan, county Waterford; 12 items 1867

II.ii.5. By-elections, 1866 MS 43,867 /1 Letters concerning the parliamentary by-elections at Wexford and

Tipperary, correspondents include Benjamin Disraeli (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, John E. Walsh (Master of the Rolls), John Pope Hennessy, Henry Chichester, 2nd Baron Templemore, Charles Tottenham MP, and Colonel Edward Taylor MP; 22 items Oct. 1866

MS 43,867 /2 Letters and telegrams concerning the parliamentary by-election at Wexford, correspondents include Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, John Pope Hennessy, and John George MacCarthy; 15 items Nov. 1866

MS 43,867 /3 Letters and telegrams concerning the parliamentary by-election at Waterford, correspondents include Walter Talbot, Colonel Edward Taylor, John Bagge, and R.M. Bland, with memoranda and returns concerning the strength of police and military in attendance; 14 items 1866

II.ii.6. Cockermouth Elections, 1857-68 MS 11,220 /1 Election posters for borough of Cockermouth; 3 items

1859 [one poster is damaged]

MS 11,220 /2 Register of voters in borough of Cockermouth; 6 items 1865-7

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MS 11,220 /3 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas relating to the Cockermouth election of 1866; 38 items 1866 [some items are badly water damaged]

MS 11,220 /4 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo relating to the Cockermouth election of 1868 from correspondents A-B; 16 items 1868

MS 11,220 /5 Letters from correspondents C-W; 17 items 1868

II.iii. Law and Order

II.iii.1. Law Officers and Courts MS 11,034

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from Robert Bourke, Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl Eglinton and 1st Earl Winton, and others relating to William Keogh MP, Solicitor-General for Ireland; 15 items 1853

MS 11,179

Correspondence between Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Sir Joseph Napier, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Thomas Berry Cusack-Smith, Master of the Rolls concerning remarks made by the latter about the Lord Lieutenant; 12 items 1858

MS 43,869 /1 Letters and papers concerning the application of former Head Constable Christopher Henry St. George for the position of Registrar of Marriages in the district of Armagh; 12 items 1860-1 & 1866-7

MS 11,203 Documents concerning courts of Petty Sessions; 4 items 1866

II.iii.2. Legal Cases MS 11,952

‘Report of the trial of Thomas Staunton, charged with writing and posting threatening letters’; 33pp March 1858 [items is in poor condition, pages are badly water damaged]

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MS 11,168 /3 The Irishman, The Queen v. Richard Pigott, indictment for seditious libel; 38pp 10 Feb. 1868

II.iii.3. Riots and Party Processions MS 11,178

Documents concerning the magistrates’ enquiry into the riots at Miltown Malbay, county Clare; 8 items 1852

MS 43,868 /1 Letter from Robert Longfield, with a government circular, and copies of instructions for the guidance of magistrates in suppressing party processions; 4 items 1861-2 and 1866-7

MS 11,202 /1

Letters to and from Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland and others relating to party processions, mainly in the north of Ireland; 34 items 1867

MS 11,202 /2 Abstract of returns from Crown Solicitors showing the number of Prosecutions for offences against the Party Processions Act, 1844, between 1850-67; 2 items 1867-8

MS 11,202 /3 Printed papers relating to the Donaghmore Riot, with Report of the Commissioners; 25pp 1867

MS 11,202 /4 Report on outrages near Rathfriland, county Down; 7pp 24 June 1867

MS 11,202 /5 Report on outrages near Rathfriland, county Down; 51pp 15 Aug. 1867

MS 11,202 /6 Crown Solicitors returns of cases to be prosecuted at Spring Assizes 1868 under the Part Processions Act, 1844; 20pp 1867

MS 11,202 /7 Abstract of Police reports on Party Processions; 20pp 1867

MS 11,202 /8 Processions in Ireland in support of the Manchester Martyrs; 3 items 1868

MS 11,202 /9 Report and index of Party Processions which occurred in county Down; 43pp

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MS 11,202 /10 Memorial from the protestants of the city of Derry; 2 items March 1868

II.iii.4. Police For appointment see II.xi. Applications and appointments to posts MS 11,195

Letters and documents relating to the Regulation of Dogs (Ireland) Act, 1865, and records of the registrations of dogs; 27 items 1865-8

MS 43,869 /2 Letters to Lord Naas from Sir John Stewart Wood (Inspector General, Irish Constabulary) concerning agrarian outrages, with a memorandum, and returns for the years 1865 and 1866; 5 items 1866

MS 43,869 /3 Letters and memoranda concerning the Constabulary barracks at Moore’s Hotel, William Street, Limerick; 10 items 1866-7

MS 43,869 /4 Memorandum (with extract from Constabulary regulations) concerning promotion and reward in the Irish Constabulary Force, by Sir John Stewart Wood; 1 item 27 March 1867

MS 43,869 /5 Papers concerning Constabulary pensions and vacancies in the force, including returns, memoranda, and a copy of ‘An Act to amend an Act to consolidate the Laws relating to the Constabulary Force in Ireland’; 7 items 1867

MS 43,869 /6 Correspondence and papers concerning applications for officer cadetships in the Royal Irish Constabulary, correspondents include Lady Donoughmore and Sir John Stewart Wood; 38 items 1868

MS 11,194 /1-3

Letters and papers concerning Constabulary Barracks proprietors; 36 items in 3 folders 1868

II.iii.5. Prisons MS 11,183 Documents concerning Catholic priests on convict ships; 4 items

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MS 11,199

Documents relating to the diet of convict prisons; 15 items 1867

MS 43,870 Letters concerning applications for the post of manager of the female prison at Grangegorman, correspondents include Charles Lingen, Dr. H. Cooke, Admiral G. Henry Seymour, and Charles F. Bourke; 13 items 1867

II.iii.6. Magistracy MS 43,868 /2 Correspondence between Lord Claud Hamilton MP, John

Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), and R.D. Coulson concerning the transfer of the latter as resident magistrate from Omagh to Sligo, with a memorial to the Duke of Abercorn, and a newspaper cutting; 7 items 1866

MS 43,868 /3 Letter to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from Sir Thomas Bateson MP, Colonel Edward Taylor MP, Sir Edward Wingfield Verner MP, Robert Longfield and W. Gregg concerning the appointment of a petty sessions clerk at Lisburn; 9 items 1866

MS 43,868 /4 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas and Charles F. Bourke (his private secretary) concerning the appointment of magistrates for the borough of Drogheda, correspondents include Ralph Smyth, Joseph Harris, Pelham Mayne, and Thomas Cairns; 11 items 1866-7

MS 43,868 /5 Correspondence between Richard Bourke, Lord Naas and Michael D. Hassard concerning the appointment of magistrates for the City of Waterford, with associated letters from Theodore Ryland; 10 items 1866-7

II.iv. Social Policy

II.iv.1. Poor Law See also MS 11,218 /5 and MS 11,221 in II.iv.4. Conditions in the West of Ireland, 1867 MS 11,186 Documents concerning the Poor Law Commission, including

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industrial and reproductive employment of workhouse inmates, July 1851, a burial ground at Omagh, 1858, state of children in Cork workhouse; 5 items 1851-1859

MS 11,030

Letters from the Poor Law Commission to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, with associated memorandum and reports relating to the Poor Law and Medical Charities; 10 items 1857-9

MS 43,871 /1 Letter from A. Power with copies of two proposed bills to amend to the Poor Law, and returns from the Poor Law Commission concerning poor relief and workhouse accommodation; 15 items 1867

MS 43,871 /2 Correspondence between Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, A. Power and Colonel Somerset concerning an inquiry into the state of Tipperary Workhouse and its suitability as a temporary billet for troops, with reports by W.J. Hamilton and the Deputy Quarter Master General; 7 items 1867

II.iv.2. Lunatic Asylums and Dispensaries For appointment see II.xi. Applications and appointments to posts MS 11,043

Letters, reports and memorandum relating to Carlow Lunatic Asylum; 17 items 1832-51

MS 11,238 /1-2

Memorial and comments on the proposed alteration of Ballinrobe dispensary district; 4 items in 2 folders Sep. 1867 [items are badly water damaged and some are fragmented]

MS 43,872 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo from Crofton Vandeleur MP, R.M. Bland, Hugh Dillon Massy, and others concerning the governors of the County Clare Lunatic Asylum at Ennis, with lists of persons eligible for the position of governor; 19 items 1867

MS 43,872 /2 Memorandum concerning the appointment of a clerk and storekeeper at Carlow Lunatic Asylum; 1 item 1867

MS 43,872 /3 Memorial to the James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercron from the Committee of Public Health concerning a vacancy in the office of Divisional Magistrate of Police in Dublin, with note and

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memorandum; 4 items undated

II.iv.3. Condition of Ireland, 1852 and 1867 MS 11,033 /1

Report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on conditions in Ireland prepared for Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland; 13pp 1852

MS 11,033 /2

Report on the condition of crime in Ireland prepared for Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland, 10pp 1852

MS 11,033 /3 Report on the condition of education in Ireland prepared for Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland; 27pp 1852

MS 11,033 /4 Report on emigration from Ireland prepares for Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland; 13pp 1852

MS 11,033 /5 Miscellaneous items relating to various reports on the condition of Ireland; 5 items 1852

MS 43,873 /1 Report on the state of Ireland in 1866 by Dr. William Neilson Hancock; 1 item 1867

MS 43,873 /2 Letters and memoranda to Lord Naas from Dr. William Neilson Hancock concerning the collection of statistics for the exports and imports of Ireland, with bills of entry and shipping lists, and newspaper cuttings; 12 items 1867

II.iv.4. Conditions in the West of Ireland, 1867 MS 11,218 /1 Documents relating to distress in the west of Ireland; 9 items

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MS 11,218 /2 Report on the Quantity of Indian Meal available and prices charged for it in Sligo, Galway and Westport; 3pp May 1867

MS 11,218 /3 Documents relating to distress in Connemara, county Galway,

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with map of the townlands of county Galway; 40 items in 3 folders 1867

MS 11,218 /4 Letters relating to Marine Salt Company of Ireland; 8 items May 1867

MS 11,218 /5 Letter from Poor Law Commission Office to Tuam Poor Union, with associated document; 5 items 21 June 1867

MS 11,218 /8 Documents relating to distress in county Galway; 7 items 1867

MS 11,218 /9 Document relating to employment of men in Spiddal, county Galway; 10 items July 1867 [some items are damaged]

MS 11,218 /10-11

Document relating to distress in Headford and Tuam, county Galway; 17 items in 2 folders July 1867

MS 11,218 /12 Memorial from inhabitants of Oughterand, county Galway relating to distress in the district; 2 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,218 /13 Documents relating to distress in the Skibbereen area of county Cork; 5 items 1867

MS 11,218 /14 Documents relating to distress in the Ballinrobe area of county Mayo; 6 items 1867

MS 11,218 /15-18

Documents relating to distress in Westport area of country Mayo including the Islands of Clare, Inishturk and Achill; 28 items in 4 folders 1867

MS 11,218 /19 Documents relating to conditions at Ennis, county Mayo; 2 items 1867

MS 11,218 /20 Letters to John Brown, 4th Marquess of Sligo relating to disress in county Mayo; 2 items 1867

MS 11,221

‘Report on the leading Indications of the state of Ireland in August 1867’, includes chapters on distress in the West of Ireland, railway traffic, crime, sea-coast fisheries, and agriculture, (80 pp).

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Also includes ‘General Abstract showing the acreage under the several crops’, (10pp) and notes on Poor Union Sanitary conditions; 3 items July – Aug. 1867

II.v. Education

II.v.1. National Education Committee

MS 43,875 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo concerning the

establishment of a National Education Commission for Ireland. Correspondents include James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn, Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl Powis (Chairman of Commission), William Cavendish, 7th Duke Devonshire, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl Dunraven, the Bishop of Kerry and James Dease, with letters and memoranda from the Secretaries of the Office of National Education; 22 items 1867

MS 43,875 /2 Letters, correspondents include Algernon Egerton MP, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl Dunraven, James Dease, Rev. David Wilson, Alexander Macdonnell, the Bishop of Down, and James MacIvor, with a copy of the warrant for the inquiry; 26 items 1867

MS 43,875 /3 Letters, correspondents include James Kavanagh, Charles Franks, Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl Powis, Richard Dawson, 1st Earl Dartrey, John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke Marlborough, James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn, Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl Lichfield, the Bishop of Meath, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl Dunraven, Viscount Kildare, Robert Warren MP (Attorney General), Abraham Brewster (Lord Chancellor), and Sir Robert Kane; 28 items 1867

MS 43,875 /5 Letters, correspondents include Alexander Macdonnell, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby (Prime Minister), J. Scott Porter, James MacIvor, and Rev. O.J. Dobbin, with correspondence between William Cavendish, 7th Duke Devonshire, and Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock; 21 items 1867-8

MS 43,875 /6 Letters, correspondents include Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl Powis, James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn, the Bishop of Kerry, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl Dunraven, J.D. Fitzgerald (Judge of Queen’s Bench, Ireland), John Dowling, William Monsell MP, Henry Howard Herbert, 4th Earl Carnarvon, John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke Marlborough, Robert Warren MP, and rev. C.W. Russell; 24 items

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1867-8

MS 43,876 /1 Papers and memoranda including copy correspondence of the Secretaries to the Commissioners of National Education, minutes of the proceedings of the Board of National Education, and an estimate of expense for the construction and maintenance of vested model schools; 6 items 1866-7

MS 43,876 /1 Papers connected with the proposed introduction of the study of classics into the Irish National Schools: The Education Office; 1 item 1867

MS 43,876 /3 Papers relating to the Royal Commission on Primary or Elementary Education in Ireland, including a draft of the royal warrant, notes, memoranda, returns, and copy letters from the Earl of Mayo to Alexander Macdonnell and the Commissioners of Education; 13 items 1866-8

MS 43,876 /4 Copies of parliamentary returns concerning University and National Education in Ireland, with a confidential draft government minute on the subject; 6 items 1866-7

MS 43,876 /5 Printed copies of a letter from the Right Hon. C.S. Fortescue, MP, Chief Secretary for Ireland, to the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (19 June 1866); 10 items 1866

MS 43,876 /6 Pamphlets concerning the Derry and Raphoe propositions on National Board Schools, and the letter of Joseph Napier MP on the proposed modification of the non-vested system of education; 3 items 1849-57

MS 43,876 /7 Pamphlets concerning National Education, including copies of the report of the Elementary Education Committee, and James MacIvor’s paper on Intermediate Education in Ireland; 14 items 1866-7

MS 43,876 /8 Pamphlets concerning Magee College, Londonderry, with a letter to Lord Naas from John Park; 4 items 1867

MS 43,876 /9 News cuttings from The Times and the Freeman’s Journal relating to the question of National Education in Ireland; 5 items 1867

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II.v.2. Universities MS 43,877 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo concerning university

education in Ireland, correspondents include E. Ryley, H. Lloyd (Provost, Dublin University), George May, W.H. Kerr, James Smith, Richard Bourke Irvine, and John Park; 18 items 1867-8

MS 43,877 /2 Letters, correspondents include Edward Berwick, E. Ryley, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby (Prime Minister), and Hugh Cairns, 1st Baron Cairns (Lord Justice of Appeal); 11 items 1867-8

MS 43,877 /3 Letters, correspondents include John Pope Hennessy, William Parsons, 3rd Earl Rosse, Rev. Bartholomew Woodlock, Rev. Dr. Henry, and Robert Montgomery; 20 items 1867

MS 43,877 /4 Letters and memoranda from G. Johnstone Stoney (Queen’s University, Dublin Castle) concerning the Queen’s Colleges, the Board of Maynooth Trustees, and university education in Ireland; 9 items 1866-7

MS 43,877 /5 Memoranda from G. Johnstone Stoney concerning the question of university education in Ireland; 2 items 1867

MS 43,877 /6 Letters and memoranda from G. Johnstone Stoney concerning the charter and constitution of the Queen’s University of Ireland; 4 items 1868

MS 43,877 /7 Letters from Henry Howard Herbert, 4th Earl Carnarvon and Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke Buckingham and Chandos (Colonial Secretaries) concerning Laval University, Quebec, including a copy of its charter, and a report from Hector Langevin (Secretary of State for Canada) to Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (Governor-General of Canada); 11 items 1866-8

MS 43,877 /8 Memoranda concerning the reform of university education in Ireland, with copy letters from Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo to the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin; 7 items 1867-8

MS 43,877 /9 Memoranda concerning university education in Ireland, including lay fellowships at Trinity College, Dublin; 5 items 1867

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MS 43,878 /1 Copies of confidential government memoranda concerning Fawcett’s parliamentary motion on Irish university education (18 June 1867); 11 items 1867

MS 43,878 /2 Volume of notes on universities; 1 item 1867

MS 43,878 /3 Printed copies of the charter of the Queen’s University in Ireland, and the patent granting the supplemental charter; 4 items 1865-6

MS 43,878 /4 Assorted pamphlets addressing the question of university education in Ireland, including the case of Denis Caulfield Heron against the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin; 5 items 1844-6

II.v.3. Other issues MS 11,217 /1 -2 Letters and reports relating to education in Ireland; 14 items in 2

folders 1867-8

MS 11,227 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from the Royal Dublin Society and others relating to the establishment of a Veterinary College in Dublin. Also includes Charter of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; c.15 items 1867-8

MS 11,228 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to the Banagher Royal School, King’s county, with associated documents; 8 items 1867-8

MS 11,228 /2 The Commissioners of Education, Mr Bell’s resignation as Head Master of Banagher Royal School, case on Behalf of the Crown; 19pp 1867

MS 11,228 /3-5 Letters and memoranda relating to the Banagher Royal School, includes report on Endowed Schools Ireland; 39 items in 3 folders 1867

MS 11,232 Letters and documents relating to the charter of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society; 12 items 1867-8

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II.vi. Church affairs

II.vi.1. Appointment See also MS 11,931, appointment to various public offices including clerical appointment MS 11,215 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, concerning the appointment to the living of Clane, diocese of Kildare, from correspondents A-M; 13 items Oct. – Nov. 1867

MS 11,215 /2

Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, concerning the appointment to the living of Clane, diocese of Kildare, from correspondents N-Z; 18 items Oct. – Nov. 1867

MS 11,214

Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland concerning the appointment to the living of Kilcooly, diocese of Cashel; 14 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,213

Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland concerning the appointment of the Dean of Killala, county Mayo; 14 items June – July 1868

MS 11,212 /1-2

Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland concerning the appointment of the Dean of Limerick; 64 items in 2 folders July – Sep. 1868

II.vi.2. Established Church Commission MS 43,879 Correspondence between Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Nicholas

Daniel Murphy MP, Robert Franks and Arthur Gayer of the Ecclesiastical Commission of Ireland concerning the state of the Established Church in Ulster, and the accounts of the Commission, with minutes and returns; 11 items 1866 and 1868

MS 11,216 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland concerning the Established Church Commission from correspondents A-B; 16 items 1867-8

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MS 11,216 /2 Letters from correspondents C-Der, with a copy of Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act, 1860; 14 items 1867-8

MS 11,216 /3 Letters from correspondents Dev-E; 22 items 1867-8

MS 11,216 /4 Letters from correspondents F-M; 26 items 1867-8

MS 11,216 /5 Letters from correspondents N-S; 11 items 1867-8

MS 11,216 /6 Reports on the Established Church Commissions, 3 copies of The Present State of the Church in Ireland by Rev. Alfred Lee, and Results of the Irish Census of 1861 with special reference to the Church in Ireland by Rev. Hume; 8 items 1864-7

MS 11,216 /7 Reports suggesting reform to the Church in Ireland; 7 items 1863-7

MS 11,216 /8 Reports of the Established Church Commission into various subjects, with associated documents; 15 items 1866-7

MS 11,216 /9 Letters and reports relating to the Established Church Commission; 10 items 1867-8

II.vii. Civil Engineering

II.vii.1. Development of Harbours MS 11,039 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from George Alexander Hamilton, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, concerning the development of Galway Harbour as a transatlantic terminal, with an enclosed letter from Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admiralty; 8 items Oct.-Dec. 1858

MS 11,039 /2

Two collection of letters concerning the development of Galway Harbour as a transatlantic terminal, with an advertisement with ‘The Patent Sea-Barrier & Artificial Beach’; 3 items 1858-9

MS 11,039 /3

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from Sir John Pakington, Robert Dillon, 3rd Baron Clonbrock, J. O. Lever, H. Corry, A. Renton, and William Ewart concerning the development of

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Galway Harbour as a transatlantic terminal; 11 items Sep.-Dec. 1858

MS 11,039 /4

A memorial to the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury relating to Galway Harbour with two other documents concerning the development of Galway Harbour as a transatlantic terminal; 3 items 1858-9

MS 11,226

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland concerning the erection of a pier at Bantry Harbour, county Cork. Also includes a printed copy of ‘all the correspondence between the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland and the Ratepayers of Bantry; 10 items April – Sep. 1866

MS 11,225

Documents concerning a resolution of Cork Grand Jury concerning the erection of a lighthouse in Crookhaven Harbour; 3 items July 1866

MS 43,865 /1 Correspondence between Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, James Spaight and George Alexander Hamilton (Assistant Secretary to Treasury) relating to the Limerick Bridge and Harbour Debt. Also includes letters from Peter Tait (Mayor of Limerick) and George Hunt MP (Financial Secretary to Treasury), with Treasury minutes, resolutions of meetings, memoranda, and newspaper cuttings; 22 items 1866

II.vii.2. Irish Railways For appointment see II.xi. Applications and appointments to posts MS 43,880 /2 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from James O’Hagan, Isaac

Butt MP, and George Alexander Hamilton MP (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury) relating to the grant of a special allowance to O’Hagan for work undertaken for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, with letters and memoranda on the matter prepared for Lord Palmerston; 23 items 1860 and 1866

MS 11,206 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to railways in Ireland, with associated items; 12 items May – Sep. 1866

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MS 11,206 /2

Letters; 15 items Oct. Dec. 1866

MS 11,206 /3 Letters; 32 items Jan. – July 1867

MS 11,206 /4

Letters; 14 items Aug. – Sep. 1867

MS 11,206 /5

Letters; 23 items Oct. 1867

MS 11,206 /6

Letters; 20 items Nov. 1867 – May 1868

MS 11,206 /7

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to the proposed Dundalk and Greenmore Railway, with map; 4 items 1865

MS 11,206 /8

Printed Bills relating to Railways and Tramways in Ireland; 9 items 1866

MS 43,880 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from the Treasury and H. Cavendish Butler (Chairman of the Irish North Western Railway), with revenue accounts, a copy of the ‘First and Second Reports on a Plan for the State-Purchase of Railways in Ireland’ by W. Neilson Hancock, and notes on the subject; 6 items 1867

MS 11,206 /11

Memorandum and reports relating to railway reforms in Ireland; 11 items 1867-9

MS 11,206 /12

Memorandum and reports relating to railway reforms in Ireland; 5 items 1867-9

MS 11,198

Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo relating to Ballincollig Powder Mills; 17 items 1868

II.viii. Agriculture MS 11,236

Miscellaneous statistics on agricultural production; 9 items 1849-68

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MS 11,182

Letters and documents relating to fisheries in Ireland; 15 items 1851-2

MS 11,229 /1

Letters and documents relating to the growing of flax in Ireland; 27 items 1851-3

MS 43,881 /1 Letters from Robert McClintock and Richard Wingfield concerning cattle plague, with a memorandum by Hugh Ferguson, and a translation of a German pamphlet on the subject; 8 items 1866

MS 43,881 /2 Letters concerning loans for land improvement granted to Andrew Geraghty and William .J. Prendergast, with associated the letters and papers; 10 items 1865-7

MS 43,881 /3 List of the principal landowners and agents of County Tipperary and their addresses; 1 item 22 Oct. 1866

MS 43,881 /4 Memorial to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from Samuel Connolly JP concerning the suppression of firearms (18 Feb 1867), with lists of persons taking out game certificates up to 30th September 1866 for the various districts of Ireland; 17 items 1867

MS 11,229 /2 Printed reports on flax growing in Ireland and Belgium; 4 items 1868

MS 11,229 /3 Letters and reports relating to the growing of flax in Ireland; 24 items 1868

MS 11,241 /1 Letters and reports relating to the cattle plague in Ireland; 11 items 1866-7

MS 11,241 /2 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to the cattle plague in Ireland, with associated reports; 11 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,241 /3 Letters; 14 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,241 /4 Letters; 14 items March 1868

MS 11,241 /5 Letters; 4 items

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MS 11,241 /6 Memorial to James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercorn from all involved in the cattle trade of Ireland; 15pp 1868

II.ix. Fisheries MS 43,881 /5 Letter to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from John Long concerning

a vacancy on the Irish Fishery Board, with testimonials to Long from Sir Thomas Larcom, Colonel Edward Taylor, George Alexander Hamilton MP, John Vance and others; 17 items 1850-62 and 1866

MS 11,240 /1-2 Report of the Fishery Commissioners, Ireland for 1865, 1866 and 1867; 4 items 1865-7

MS 11,240 /3 Documents relating to the amendment of the Salmon and Inland Fisheries (Ireland) Bill; 2 items 1866-7

MS 11,240 /4 Report of the Commission on Sea Fisheries of the United Kingdom, Vol.I, (HMSO, London, 1866); 74pp 1866

MS 11,240 /5 Report on Irish Sea Fisheries; 20pp 1867

MS 11,240 /6 Documents relating to the Sea Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1869; 7 items 1867-9

MS 11,240 /7 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to Irish fisheries; 4 items 1866

MS 11,240 /8 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to Irish fisheries; 14 items Jan. – May 1868

MS 11,240 /9 Letters; 24 items June 1868

MS 11,240 /10 Letters; 15 items July – Dec. 1868

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II.x. Government Departments

II.x.1. Public Records Office

For appointment see II.xi. Applications and appointments to posts MS 11,219 /1

Suggestion for a new Public Record Office in Dublin by Mr. Handinge to Thomas Larcom; 2pp 24 Aug. 1866

MS 11,219 /2 Reports on the French record system; 6 items 1866-8

MS 11,219 /3 Manuscript and printed copy of a report by Sir Bernard Burke on the system of the French Record Office, with associated items; 5 items 1866

MS 11,219 /4 Report of Mr. Hardy and Mr. Brewer in reference to the publication of the calendar of Patent and close rolls of Ireland, with associated documents; 3 items 1867

MS 11,219 /5 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to the proposed Public Records Office; 9 items May – Aug. 1867

MS 11,219 /6 Letters; 13 items Sep. 1867

MS 11,219 /7 Letters; 10 items Oct. – Nov. 1867

MS 11,219 /8 Notes relating to rev. G.E. Cotter, Clerk of State to the Paper Office and Keeper of the Records in the Birmingham Tower; 2 items c.1867

MS 11,219 /9 Letters from Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland to George Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson; 4 items 1867

MS 11,219 /10 Memo from James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland relating to appointments to Public Records Office; 2pp Nov. 1867

MS 11,219 /11 Printed copy of Bill for establishment of a Public Record Office

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and amended bill; 2 items 1867

II.x.2. Proposed Department of Science and Art MS 11,200 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland relating to the new proposed Department of Science and Art; 13 items March – Sep. 1867

MS 11,200 /2 Letters; 17 items Oct. 1867

MS 11,200 /3 Letters; 20 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,200 /4 Letters; 6 items Dec. 1867

MS 11,200 /5 Letters; 19 items Jan. – Feb. 1868

MS 11,200 /6 Letters; 19 items March – April 1868

MS 11,200 /7 Letters; 28 items May-June 1868

MS 11,200 /8 Memos and reports on proposed Department of Science and Art; 4 items 1867-8

MS 11,200 /9 Memos and reports; 4 items 1867-8

II.x.3. Other Departments MS 11,042

Encumbered Estates Commission report on number and value of estates sold; 40pp c. 1852

MS 11,207

Accounts of the farm and garden at the Chief Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin; 4 items 1866

MS 43,882 /4 Printed copies of confidential government memoranda on the

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North American Confederation, the separation of the markets for foreign and home cattle for the supply of London, and the Royal Commission on the laws of marriage; 3 items 1866-7

MS 11,239 /1-3

Memoranda and notes on various public affairs prepared for Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo; 72 items 1867-8

MS 43,882 /5 Accounts for repairs and improvements to the Chief Secretary’s Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin; 2 items 1867

MS 43,882 /1 Letters from Sir Richard Griffith and J. Ball Greene (Superintendent of the General Survey and Valuation of Ireland) relating to the cost of the annual revision of the valuation of County Mayo, with copy correspondence between Ball Greene and the Clerk of Westport Union, and a parliamentary return on survey expenditure (1860-6); 11 items 1867

MS 43,882 /2 Correspondence between Richard Bourke, Lord Naas and Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton concerning the appointment of postmaster at Roscommon, with an anonymous letter and a constabulary outrage report; 6 items 1867

II.xi . Applications and appointment to Posts MS 11,928 Book containing lists of vacant Post Offices and appointment

made to Post Offices; 86pp 1858-9

MS 11,929

Appointments of Resident magistrates, Constabulary Cadets and other public service posts; c.90pp 1858-67

MS 11,253 /1-5 Letters applying for the post of Pool Law Medical Inspectorships; c.100 items in 5 folders Aug.-Sep. 1866

MS 11,257 Letters applying for the post of Registrar of marriages and Clerk of the Peace in Drogheda; 23 items Oct.-Nov. 1866

MS 34,874 Applications for the post of Professor of History and English Literature at the Queen’s College, Belfast, correspondents include H.P. Charlton, J.P. Hamilton, Charles P. Leslie, Joseph Hayes,

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with printed articles and testimonials; 22 items 1866

MS 43,882 /3 Correspondence and papers concerning the appointment of a registrar of marriages for the district of Clonakilty, correspondents include Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy, Cromwell Norcott, and William Donnelly (Registrar General); 8 items 1866

MS 43,883 /2 Letters to Lord Naas from Admiral Henry Seymour MP, Edward O’Neill MP, Rev. Robert Rowan and John Rowan concerning the latter’s application for the position of resident magistrate; 11 items 1866-7

MS 11,248 /1-3 Letters applying for the posts of resident magistrates; c.300 items in 3 folders 1866-8

MS 11,927 Letter-register of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, Chief Secretary for Ireland. In the back are notes on appointments made in the public service, with notes on salaries; 80pp 1866-8

MS 11,251 /1-3 Letters applying for the post of surgeon in Mountjoy Prison; 66 items in 3 folders May – July 1867

MS 11,256 /1-2 Letters applying for the post of medical officer to Mountjoy prison; c.90 item in 2 folders May. 1867 – Jan. 1868

MS 11,252 /1-5 Letters applying for the post of Registrar of the Admiralty Court; 54 items in 5 folders June – July 1867

MS 11,208

Letters of application for the post of resident physician in Clonmel Lunatic Asylum; 8 items July – Aug. 1867

MS 11,255 /1-2 Letters applying for position as auditor of Poor Law accounts; c.80 items in 2 folders Aug. – Dec. 1867

MS 11,206 /9

Applications for jobs in the Railway Commission from applicants A-H; 15 items 1867

MS 11,206 /10

Applications for jobs in the Railway Commission from applicants I-W; 23 items

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MS 11,219 /12 Letters applying for posts at Public Records Office from applicants A-D; 22 items 1867

MS 11,219 /13 Letters applying for posts at Public Records Office from applicants E-K; 29 items 1867

MS 11,219 /14 Letters applying for posts at Public Records Office from applicants L-O; 40 items 1867

MS 11,219 /15 Letters applying for posts at Public Records Office from applicants S-W; 33 items 1867

MS 43,883 /1 Letter from Charles Langan to Gerald Dillon (private secretary to Lord Lieutenant) concerning government patronage, with copies of a memorandum on a list of appointments furnished to the Lord Lieutenant at Belfast; 4 items 1867

MS 11,254 /1-7 Letters applying for the post of clerk in various departments; c.320 items in 7 folders 1867-8

MS 11,930

Appointments made in the Post Office; 88pp 1867-8

MS 11,931

Nomination book for appointments to clerical and legal posts, as resident magistrates, as constabulary cadets, to posts in prisons and asylums and general posts in the public service; c.220pp 1867-8

MS 11,249 Letters applying for the clerkship of rules in the Court of Queen’s Bench; 42 items March-April 1868

MS 11,250 Letters applying for the post of secretary of the Commission of Lunacy; 22 items April-July 1868

MS 11,247 Letters applying for the chair of logistics in Queen’s College, Belfast; c.90 items July – Sep. 1868

MS 11,245 Letters applying for the post of Crown Solicitor; 42 items Sep. – Oct. 1868

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MS 11,246 Letters applying for the chair of midwifery at Queen’s College,

Belfast; 55 items Nov. – Dec. 1868

MS 11,234

Letters and applications for cadetships in the Royal Irish Constabulary; 9 items 1868

II.xii. Irish Nationalism

II.xii.1. The Phoenix Society MS 11,187 /1

Collection of copies of constabulary reports concerning the activities of the Phoenix Society in counties Cork and Kerry between 13 January 1858 and 9 January 1859, with Richard Bourke, Lord Naas’s notes and instructions for the Law Officers; 90pp 1858-9

MS 11,187 /2

Copies of police reports concerning the activities of the Phoenix Society in counties Cork and Kerry, reports from the prison authorities regarding the treatment of members of the society imprisoned in Cork Gaol and despatches from the British Consulate in New York; 11 items 1858-9

MS 11,187 /3

Reports from Chief Inspector Daniel Ryan (DMP ‘G’ Division) and George Fitzmaurice, Resident Magistrate Skibbereen, concerning the Phoenix Society, 5 items 1858-9

MS 11,187 /4

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas concerning the Phoenix Society, correspondents include George Fitzmaurice; 46 items 1858-9

II.xii.2. Fenianism

II.xii.2.a. Reports and Memoranda MS 43,886 /2 Copies of papers relating to the prosecution of members of the

Phoenix Society, including transcriptions of the letters of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, the sentence passed on Daniel Sullivan by Baron Greene and the case for the Crown prepared by Sir M. Barrington for Kerry Spring Assizes, 1859; 3 items 1859

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MS 11,188 /1

Opinions of James Lawson, Solicitor-General and Thomas O’Hagan, Attorney-General concerning press prosecutions, 23 and 31 March 1863, with copy letter from Sir Robert Peel, Chief Secretary to George Howard, 7th Earl Carlisle, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 26 March 1863, and a Dublin Metropolitan Police report on the Nation newspaper of 5 December 1863; 3 items March – Dec. 1863

MS 11,188 /2

Opinion of Edward Sullivan, Law Adviser concerning the prohibition of a public meeting at Slievenamon, sent to Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston; 4pp 24 Aug. 1863

MS 11,188 /3

Opinion of James Lawson, Solicitor-General concerning A.M. Sullivan’s not having taken the oath of allegiance on his election to the Corporation of Dublin; 1 items 3 Oct. 1863

MS 11,188 /4

Copy of the affidavit of Sir John Gray, proprietor of the Freeman’s Journal, at the trial of the Queen v. John O’Leary; 44pp 20 Nov. 1865

MS 43,887 /8 Assorted reports and memoranda on Fenianism from resident magistrates, justices of the peace and police officials, including a ‘List of persons supposed to be officer of the Fenian conspiracy in Ireland’; 11 items 1865-8

MS 11,188 /5

Confidential reports and memoranda concerning the Fenian organization, including a return of the number of prisoners prosecuted for offences connected with Fenianism and whiteboyism; 8 items July 1866 – Feb. 1868

MS 11,188 /6

Printed copies of letters and sermons concerning the position of the Roman Catholic Church on Fenianism, with printed extracts from the Irishman newspaper; 4 items Dec. 1866 – Aug. 1867

MS 11,188 /7

Notes made by Richard Bourke, Lord Naas for a speech on the second reading of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill; 2 items c.1866

MS 11,188 /8

Letters, reports and returns concerning prisoners held in custody under the Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Act, 1866, correspondents include Samuel Anderson; 11 items 1866-7

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MS 11,188 /9

Letters and reports concerning insurance policies taken out on the life of Queen Victoria by William Codd, a suspended parish priest in Ireland, with copies of the policies; 13 items 1866-7

MS 11,188 /10

Confidential reports and memoranda concerning the Fenian organization, including despatches from the British consulate in New York, a summary of the information relative to Fenianism received from J.J. Corydon and a return of the number of militia men suspected of Fenianism; 20 items 1866-7

MS 43,886 /6 Memoranda concerning the continuance of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act and the progress of legislation on the Insurrection Act of 1796, with a letter from John E. Walsh (Master of the Rolls); 5 items 1866-7

MS 43,886 /7 Letters and papers concerning prisoners held under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, including reports, numerical returns, letters from the Government Prisons Office, Dublin, extracts from prisoners’ letters, and a return of the number of farmers arrested (10 March 1868), correspondents include Chichester Fortescue (Chief Secretary of Ireland), James Spaight, Samuel Anderson, and Robert Anderson; 43 items 1866-8

MS 43,887 /1 Alphabetical lists (with maps) of military stations in Ireland in May 1848 and on 1 December 1866, showing the strength of the force at each; 2 items 1866

MS 43,887 /2 Letters and papers concerning the Royal Irish Constabulary, including a circular on Fenianism (1 Jan 1866), a return of arms seized in 1866, letters from Sir John Stewart Wood (Inspector General) to Lord Naas concerning arms raids in County Cork, correspondence with Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, and a copy of ‘On the Fortification of Police Barracks’ by Charles W. Hamilton (4 Mar 1868); 13 items 1866-8

MS 43,887 /3 Letters and reports on Fenianism from the Dublin Metropolitan Police, including monthly returns of arms seized in 1866, reports from Superintendent Daniel Ryan and letters from Colonel Attwell Lake (Chief Commissioner of DMP); 7 items 1866-7

MS 43,888 /3 Letters and despatches on Fenianism from the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Offices concerning the activities of the Fenian organization in Manchester, France and New South Wales; 11

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MS 11,188 /11

Copies of the brief on behalf of the Crown at the trial of the Queen v. Stephen J. Meany, with a report of the trial; 3 items 16 Feb. 1867

MS 11,188 /12

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas concerning Fenianism in county Kerry; 14 items Feb. 1867

MS 11,188 /13 Letters, reports and memoranda concerning prisoners Denis O’Connor and James Lawless from the Jackmel expedition; 21 items June 1867 – May 1868

MS 11,188 /14

Confidential report for the Cabinet by Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn on Fenianism in the British Army; 8pp 7 June 1867

MS 11,188 /15

Notes of evidence given by Head Constable Thomas Talbot at the trials of Mortimer Shea alias ‘Captain Moriarty’ at Tralee assizes; 3 items 9 Aug. 1867

MS 11,188 /16 Letters, reports and memoranda concerning prisoner William C. Nugent from the Jackmel expedition; 15 items Nov. 1867 –April 1868

MS 11,188 /17

Copy of memorandum, with draft, from Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo to Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn on the current state of Ireland with regard to Fenianism; 2 items 6 Dec. 1867

MS 43,887 /6 Letters, police reports and telegrams concerning the prohibition of demonstrations on behalf of the ‘Manchester Martyrs’ in Dublin and Cork, correspondents include Richard Sothwell Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Sir Thomas Larcom, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby (Prime Minister), Superintendent Daniel Ryan, and Colonel Attwell Lake; 37 items Dec. 1867

MS 43,887 /7 Letters, reports and telegrams concerning a riot in Waterford following the transfer of prisoners from the Jacknell expedition to Waterford gaol on 13 June 1867, with an account from a local newspaper; 12 items 1867

MS 11,188 /18

Reports and telegrams relating to the suppression of Fenian outbreaks in Killmallock, Youghal, Tipperary and Drogheda; 12

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MS 11,188 /19

Letters, reports and depositions relating to the trial of John Warren and W.J. Nagle, prisoners from the Jackmel expedition, correspondents include Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl Derby , Prime Minister and Edward Stanley, Lord Stanley, Foreign Secretary with copy letters from W.H. Seward, U.S. Secretary of State; 10 items 1867

MS 11,188 /20

Letters and reports concerning the arrest and trial of General Octave Fariola, correspondents include Gathorne Hardy, Home Secretary, Richard Mayne and Samuel Anderson; 7 items 1867

MS 11,188 /21

Return of arrests made under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Acts from 1 January 1867 to 31 January 1868, numerical returns of prisoners remaining in custody and memoranda concerning the occupations of the prisoners; 22 items 1867-8

MS 11,243

Letters, reports and memoranda concerning the importation of arms at Waterford, correspondents include R.M. Bland, Sir Thomas Freemantle, Board of Customs and George Gerald; 7 items 1867

MS 43,886 /1 Papers relating to the prosecution of newspaper editors, including correspondence with the prison authorities, a letter from A.M. Sullivan to the Lord Lieutenant (16 Mar 1868), the affidavit of Sir John Gray MP, government memoranda, and police reports, with a copy of the Irishman (30 Nov 1867) containing an article on the ‘Manchester Martyrs’, and other printed extracts from the newspaper; 19 items 1867-8

MS 43,886 /3 Letter and papers relating to the Special Commissions at Dublin and Cork, including letters from Matthew Anderson (Crown Solicitor for Dublin), Samuel Anderson, and Robert Anderson, a jury list and analysis of jurors challenged by the Crown at Dublin, and the speech of the Attorney-General at the trial of Patrick J. Condon and Dominick O’Mahony in Cork; 19 items 1867

MS 43,886 /4 Copies of memorials in reference to the Fenian prisoners (Thomas F. Burke and Patrick Doran) then under sentence of death for high treason, with letters from James Whiteside (Chief Justice of Ireland), William Monsell MP, and Jonathan Pim MP; 19 items 1867

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MS 43,886 /5 Correspondence between Lord Naas and Robert Abraham

Brewster (Lord Chancellor) concerning Fenian prisoners under sentence of death for high treason, with a letter from Hedges Eyre Chatterton, a report from James Whiteside (Chief Justice of Ireland), an abstract of the cases of prisoners sentenced at the Cork Special Commission, and a draft memorandum on Fenianism to members of the Cabinet; 12 items 1867

MS 43,886 /8 Letters and memoranda concerning William J. Nagle and John Warren, American citizens imprisoned for their part in the Jacknel expedition, including the statements of witnesses, reports from British consular officials, and a comprehensive summary of the case; 8 items 1867-8

MS 43,888 /1 Confidential memorandum from Lord Naas to the Cabinet concerning the collection and coordination of information on the Fenian organization (2 Jul 1867), with comments from Cabinet members; 6 items 1867

MS 43,888 /2 Confidential letters, reports and memoranda on Fenianism compiled by the Home Office, including London Metropolitan Police reports and the statements of witnesses; 16 items 1867-8

MS 43,888 /4 London Metropolitan Police reports on Fenianism with covering letters from Chief Commissioner Richard Mayne and dispatches from the British Consulate in New York; 23 items 1867-8

MS 43,888 /5 Abstracts of the information on Fenianism contained in the despatches and letters from British consular officials in the United States, abstracts of the reports of Superintendent Daniel Ryan (DMP ‘G’ Division) and members of the Irish Constabulary, and a ‘Resume of events connected with the attempted revolution in Ireland’; 3 items 1867

MS 43,888 /6 Copies of the letters of Fenian agents and their associates intercepted by the British authorities, accompanied by confidential reports from ‘J.W.H’; 15 items 1867-8

MS 11,188 /22

Letters, telegrams, police reports and memoranda concerning the arrest of George Francis Train at Cobh, including a list of documents found with Train on his arrest; 21 items 17 Jan. 1868

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MS 11,188 /23

Copy of a letter from John Savage to Colonel J. Kelly; 14pp 14 Feb. 1868

MS 11,188 /24

Letters, reports and memoranda concerning prisoners Patrick Nugent and Daniel Lee from the Jackmel expedition; 6 items Feb.-March 1868

MS 11,188 /25

Report on a meeting of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood held in Manchester in March 1868, with a letter from Gathorne Hardy to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo; 3 items March 1868

MS 11,188 /26 Letters, reports and memoranda concerning prisoners Warren and Nagel from the Jackmel expedition; 6 items May – June 1868

MS 43,887 /4 Letters and reports on Fenianism from the Dublin Metropolitan Police, including reports from Superintendent Daniel Ryan and letters from Colonel Attwell Lake; 8 items Jan. 1868

MS 43,887 /5 Letters and reports on Fenianism from the Dublin Metropolitan Police, including reports from Superintendent Daniel Ryan and letters from Colonel Attwell Lake; 18 items Jan.-March 1868

MS 43,888 /7 A ‘History of the Fenian Conspiracy’, Vol. I, compiled by Samuel Anderson for the use of the Chief Secretary of Ireland, with notes on the origin and progress of the movement; 3 items 1868

MS 43,888 /8 A ‘History of the Fenian Conspiracy’, Vol. II, compiled by Samuel and Robert Anderson for the use of the Chief Secretary of Ireland 1868

II.xii.2.b. Correspondences MS 11,189 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo, Chief

Secretary for Ireland relating to Fenianism; 16 items Sep. 1865 – Sep. 1866

MS 43,884 /1 Letters from General Sir Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (Commander-in-Chief, Ireland) concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the distribution of military forces in Ireland (with returns), a robbery of arms in Cork, naval support for British

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troops, and the state of the counties Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Wexford and Wicklow; 20 items 1865-7

MS 43,884 /2 Letters Spencer Horatio Walpole MP (Home Secretary) concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the general state of Ireland, a manuscript history of Fenianism (1865-6), extradition cases, the disposition of forces in Ireland, and the whereabouts of James Stephens; 17 items April-Dec. 1866

MS 43,884 /3 Letters from Sir Thomas Larcom concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to Ribbon-Fenian assassinations, Fenian suspects from America, and the activities of James Stephens; 13 items July-Dec. 1866

MS 43,884 /4 Letters from various politicians and landowners concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the supply of intelligence, and the distribution of police and troops, correspondents include Geoffrey Guthrie-Browne, 2nd Baron Oranmore and Brown, George Evans-Freke, 7th Baron Carbery, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven, Francis Bernard, 3rd Earl Bandon, Sir Robert Lynch Blosse, William Gregory MP, Robert Staples, and Michael Mulligan; 25 items July-Dec. 1866

MS 11,189 /2-3 Letters; 35 items in 2 folders Nov. 1866

MS 11,189 /4-6 Letters; 63 items in 2 folders Dec. 1866

MS 43,884 /5 Letters from various politicians and landowners concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to its existence in various parts of the country, correspondents include Lord John Browne, Arthur Kananagh MP, Crofton Vandaleur MP, Robert Perceval Maxwell, Colonel W.H. White Hedges, Daniel Conner, and John Adair; 27 items Dec. 1866

MS 43,884 /6 Letters from Lord Edward Stanley (Foreign Secretary), Hugh Cairns, 1st Baron Cairns (Lord Chancellor of England), J.D. Fitzgerald (Judge of Queen’s Bench, Ireland), and Lt. Col. W. Feilding concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the Belfast police, the sentencing of Fenian prisoners, James Stephens, General Fariola, and other intelligence matters; 17 items 1866-8

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MS 11,189 /7 Letters; 26 items Jan. – Feb. 1867

MS 43,885 /1 Letters from various politicians and landowners concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the state of County Kerry, correspondents include Richard Hancock, 3rd Baron Castlemaine, Hon. Frederick Stanley MP, Lord Richard Grosvenor MP, Sir A. Horsford, Richard Grattan, Henry Herbert, John Greene RM, J. Townsend Trench, and Daniel Conner; 20 items Feb.-March 1867

MS 11,189 /8 Letters; 38 items March 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,885 /2 Letters from various politicians and landowners concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to disturbances in the south and west of Ireland, correspondents include Lord Castlerosse, Richard Boyle, 4th Earl Shannon, Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess Clanricarde, Algernon William Greville MP, Robert Longfield, Dr. William Stokes, and Daniel Conner; 23 items March-Dec. 1867

MS 43,885 /3 Letters from James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess Abercorn (Lord Lieutenant for Ireland) concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the insurrection and the death sentence passed on Thomas Burke for high treason; 11 items March-May 1867

MS 11,189 /9 Letters; 20 items April – May 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,885 /4 Letters from Hedges Eyre Chatterton MP (Attorney-General for Ireland) concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the state trials of Fenian prisoners in Dublin, Cork and Limerick; 12 items April-June 1867

MS 11,189 /10 Letters; 37 items June – Aug. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,885 /5 Letters from Gathorne Hardy MP (Home Secretary) concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the surveillance of James Stephens, the imprisonment of American citizens, the shooting of a police officer in Manchester, and the activities of Father Patrick Lavelle; 15 items June-Nov. 1867

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MS 11,189 /11 Letters; 28 items Sep. – Oct. 1867

MS 11,189 /12 Letters; 24 items Nov. 1867

MS 11,189 /13 Letters; 34 items Dec. 1867 [some items are water damaged]

MS 43,885 /6 Letters from Gathorne Hardy MP and Sir James Fergusson MP (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office) concerning Fenianism, with particular reference to the surveillance of James Stephens, ‘Manchester Martyrs’ demonstrations, the Clerkenwell explosion, and the gathering of intelligence; 28 items Dec. 1867-March 1868

MS 11,189 /14 Letters; 58 items Jan. 1868

MS 11,189 /15 Letters; 34 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,189 /16 Letters; 41 items March – April 1868

MS 11,189 /17 Letters; 32 items May – Aug. 1868

II.xii.2.c. Telegrams MS 11,201 /1

Telegrams, some in code, to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Sir Thomas Larcom, with notes and copies of replies, topics include party processions, Manchester Martyrs demonstrations and a gas explosion at Green Street Court House; 26 items Nov. – Dec. 1867

MS 11,201 /2

Telegrams, some in code, to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Sir Thomas Larcom, Robert Warren, Attorney-General, and James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland concerning Manchester Martyrs demonstrations, 19 items Nov. – Dec. 1867

MS 11,201 /3

Telegrams to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from J.A. Tobin and Robert O’Hara concerning topics connected with the General Valuation Office; 2 items

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MS 11,201 /4

Telegrams, some in code, to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Sir Thomas Larcom, Samuel Anderson and others, with notes and letters from Gathorne Hardy and Abraham Brewster, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, topics include armed attacks on police in Cork and the arrest and trials of Fenian prisoners; 32 items Feb. 1868

MS 11,201 /5

Telegrams, some in code, to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Sir Thomas Larcom, Robert Warren, James Hamilton, 1st Duke Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and others, with notes and copies of replies, topics include the trials of Fenian prisoners and a visit by the Prince of Wales to Ireland; 31 items March 1868

MS 11,201 /6

Telegrams, many in code, to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Sir Thomas Larcom and others, with notes and a memorandum from Samuel Anderson, topics include employment of Constabulary detectives in Cork and the trial of Fenian prisoners; 34 items April – May 1868

MS 11,201 /7

Telegrams, some in code, and a letter to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Chief Secretary for Ireland from Sir Thomas Larcom and others, with notes and copies of replies, topics include the Corrupt Practices Bill, an armed robbery in Cork and disturbances at Duncannon and Lisburn; 21 items June – Sep. 1868

II.x.iii. Miscellaneous Papers MSL 119 Oath of loyalty and allegiance to King George III from county

Meath; 29pp 29 Oct. 1795

III. OFFICAL PAPERS, VICEROY OF INDIA MS 11,223 /2 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Viceroy of India

concerning Indian affairs; 4 items Jan. – June 1868

MS 11,223 /3 Letters; 14 items

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MS 11,223 /4-5 Letters; 37 items in 2 folders Sep. 1868

MS 11,223 /1 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Viceroy of India from Florence Nightingale, with her memorandum on sanitary improvements in India; 3 items Oct. – Nov. 1868

MS 11,223 /6-9 Letters to Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Viceroy of India concerning Indian affairs; 54 items in 3 folders Oct. 1868

MS 11,223 /10 Letters; 7 items Nov. 1868

MS 11,953 Photostat of list of ‘contents of cases of papers and books at Palmerstown from India’, being the papers of Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo, Viceroy for India; 34 items 13 March [18]72

IV. PERSONAL PAPERS

IV.i. Personal correspondents of Richard Bourke Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo

MS 11,244 /1

Letters to and from Richard Bourke, Lord Naas, including from his brother Robert Bourke; 14 items 1849-51

MS 11,237 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from his father Robert Bourke, 5th Earl Mayo and his mother Anne Charlotte Bourke neé Jocelyn, 5th Lady Mayo; 3 items c.1852

MS 11,180

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from his brother John Jocelyn Bourke, concerning the Crimean War, also includes the will of John Jocelyn Bourke; 13 items 1854-6

MS 11,181 /1

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas concerning the Kildare hunt; 19 items 1858

MS 11,181 /2

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas from Bob Kennedy concerning the Kildare Hunt; 22 items

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MS 11,244 /4

Letters to Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo; 7 items 1860 and 1871

IV.ii. Personal correspondents of other members of the Bourke family MS 11,237 /2 Letters to Anne Charlotte Bourke neé Jocelyn, 5th Lady Mayo,

one from her son Richard Bourke, Lord Naas; 2 items 1852

MS 11,244 /2 Letters to and from Blanche Julia Bourke, neé Wyndham, Lady Naas; 2 items 1854

IV.iii. Financial papers MS 11,235 /3 Various account of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas; 5 items

1848-58

MS 11,244 /3 Vouchers and accounts of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas; 4 items 1849-54

MS 11,235 /4 Vouchers of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas and Blanche Julia Bourke, neé Wyndham, Lady Naas; 20 items 1855-64

MS 11,235 /6 Cheque book of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas; 1 items 1858-9

IV.iv. Wills and Agreements MS 11,235 /1

Memorandum of agreement between Richard Southwell Bourke and Henry Colburn relating to the publishing of the formers narrative of his travels in Russia; 2pp 15 June 1846

MS 11,235 /2 Copy opinion on the marriage of Richard Southwell Bourke and Blanche Julia Wyndham, daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Baron Leconfield; 2pp 1848

MS 11,235 /5 Draft of the will of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas; 2pp c.1855

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IV.v. Miscellaneous papers MS 11,951 /1-5 Notebooks of Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo; 5

paperbound volumes [undated]

MS 11, 950 /1 Collection of newspaper cutting made by Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo on the Irish Church; 5pp 1867-8

MS 11,950 /2 Collection of newspaper cutting made by Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo on press regulations; 5pp 1867-8

MS 11,950 /3 Collection of newspaper cutting made by Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo on Fenianism; 27pp 1867-8

MS 11,950 /4 Collection of newspaper cutting made by Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo on Land Bills; 24pp 1867-8

MS 11,950 /5 Collection of newspaper cutting made by Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo on miscellaneous subjects, with contents list; 40pp 1867-8

MS 11,950 /6 Collection of newspaper cutting made by Richard Bourke, Lord Naas later 6th Earl Mayo on miscellaneous subjects; 20pp 1867-8

MS 43,864 Notebooks containing shorthand notes by Richard Bourke, 6th Earl Mayo; 6 items 1869-71 and undated

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