Item 4 - Handwritten document entitled ‘A Character’

Original Digital object not accessible

Identity area

Reference code

IE 2135 P29/1/4

Title

Handwritten document entitled ‘A Character’

Date(s)

  • [c. 1780-1810?] (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

4 pp.

Context area

Name of creator

(c. 1660s-)

Biographical history

The Monsells, of French extraction, were a plantation family from Dorsetshire, England, who had settled in Tervoe, county Limerick by the 1660s. Many of the early members of the family were prosperous merchants and landowners, most notably Samuel MonsellRead more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Handwritten document entitled ‘A Character’, providing a character analysis of an unidentified person but probably the Reverend Samuel Monsell (1743-1818).

Conditions of access and use area

Language of material

  • English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Minor damage to document, with two words having been cut out from the first sheet.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.5rv8-6834