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Includes letters about Disestablishment, Poor Law reform, Orangeism, Conservative registration, Home Rule and the Irish Land question. Also includes letter from M. McCormack, CC, Kinnitty to Lord Rosse concerning agrarian dispute in Kinnitty parish between Francis Foley and Delaney at Newtown (3 March 1911).
Letters and papers of the 4th Earl reflecting his membership of learned bodies – the Royal Irish Academy (member 1870; president 1896), the Royal Institute, the Royal Society, the Institute of Naval Architects, etc; the correspondents include W. Burne Jones and [the 1st Marquess of] Dufferin and Ava.
Diaries of the 4th Earl (including a largely empty diary for 1872 of [his wife, Cassandra]) recording a tour in England, 1871; tours in the United States, 1884 and 1891; a visit to Jamaica, 1891; and a tour of India, 1897-8: together with two of his passports, 1890 and 1897.
Papers of the 4th Earl about [his eldest son], Lord Oxmantown: two copies of Lord Oxmantown’s birth certificate, and a letter from Dr Benjamin Jowett about his admission to Balliol College, Oxford
Letters and papers, 1739-1995 (mainly 1876-1962), of the Lister Kaye family, of Denby Grange, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, one of whom, Frances Lois, second daughter of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister Kaye, 4th Baronet, married in 1905 the 5th Earl of Rosse.
Maps, plans and drawings, [c.1610], 1638, [c. 1690] and c. 1750-1790, mainly of a size which makes it physically convenient to form them into a separate section.
Twelve photograph albums, ranging in size from folio to small octavo, five bundles of loose photographs, and other material, c. 1870-c. 1945, all deriving from Mary Countess of Rosse, the 3rd to the 6th Earls of Rosse, the Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons and the Lister Kaye family.
Original lease (1604) and 2 non-contemporary copy leases of ‘The Myrtle House’, Youghal, [former home of Sir Walter Ralegh], held by the Parsonses of Parsonstown under a lease from the [1st and Great] Earl of Cork.
Two large envelopes containing a few leases, but mostly tenants’ wills and case papers, all relating to Derrinsallagh, barony of Lower Ormond, Co. Tipperary, [which may or may not have been part of the Dunalley estate, but probably was a much later acquisition of the Earls of Rosse.] This section also includes Irish Land Commission sale papers relating to the ‘Derrinsallow’ property of John Pilkington.
