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CD entitled 'De Laval Files', containing Word document files of P21/3/1 and P21/3/4-6, and a PDF-file of P21/3/2.

Framed photograph of a silhouette of the Reverend Thomas Gilbert Willis by Auguste Edouard, 1836. Reverse of frame bears the label of Ryman & Co., Ltd., Fine Art Dealers, 23 High Street, Oxford, and a typescript note of the provenance of the silhouette, with handwritten additions.

Handwritten index to the contents of P21/3/2.

Leather-bound notebook with a steel lock and key containing hand-copied transcripts of letters, wills and other documents by or relating to the De Laval family. The earliest transcribed item is a letter from Vicomte de Laval to his children dated 2 April 1689, written from a prison in France. Some transcripts are in French. Also included in the book are the Vicomte’s coat of arms and a drawing of the family seat of Chateâu de Gourlencour near Laon in Picardy. Handwritten index. Pagination in pencil on written pages. For indices of the contents of this book, see P21/3/3-4. Fragile.

Letter from Josephine and Roy Carter to Professor Geraldine Sheridan, enclosing P21/1/1-2 and P21/2/1-4.

Photograph printed on paper of a musket presented to the Reverend Thomas Gilbert Willis whilst at Trinity College, Dublin.

Photograph printed on paper of a miniature portrait of Deborah Willis née Newcombe (1778-1857).

Photographs printed on paper of miniature portraits of members of the Willis, Gubbins and Petrie families, including Thomas Willis (1748-1825), Thomas Willis (1809-1879), Newcombe Willis (1817-1905), Dorcas Gough Gubbins (1809-1879), Deborah Charlotte Willis (1841-1931), and Captain F. W. H. Petrie (1831-1900).

The series contains reproductions of portraits and other photographs relating to the Willis family.

Five red wax seal impressions on cardboard, depicting the three-facet seal of the Viscounts de Laval. Fragile.