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Transcript of P29/2/2 prepared by the cataloguing archivist, based on the original document and the 1960s transcript (for which see P29/2/12) of same.

The collection comprises primarily letters and copies of letters by members of the Monsell family or individuals associated with them. Of particular note is a letter book kept by the shipping merchant William Monsell (P2/1/1), which contains copies of some 1,200 items of mainly business correspondence, giving a unique insight into Limerick as a maritime mercantile city in the early eighteenth century. Of equal interest is the fragment of a diary (P2/1/12) kept by his grandson, the Reverend Samuel Monsell (1743-1818), Precentor of Ardfert from 1791 to 1811, which provides an extraordinary account of the private life and innermost thoughts of a Church of Ireland clergyman struggling to stay on the path of virtue.

Ring-bound typescript of an article entitled ‘Speaker Pery and the Pery Papers’ by A. P. W. Malcomson, published in the North Muster Antiquarian Journal no. 21 (1973-74), pp. 33-60. The article started as a paper read to the Limerick branch of the Irish History Teacher’s Association at their weekend conference on local history, which took place on 12-14 October 1973. Pagination, with the body of the article and the accompanying notes paginated individually.

Photocopy of a handwritten transcript of P29/2/2 prepared by Trifine Turner née de la Poer Monsell. The photocopy, or possibly the original transcript, is incomplete and lacks part of the first and the last seven pages of the original diary and some other intermittent sections of the text.

This series contains transcripts of letters and a bound typescript of an article pertaining to the Pery family of Limerick.

This series contains letters, a diary and other documents pertaining to the Monsell family of Tervoe, county Limerick.

Bound hardback lined notebook buy Guy & Co. Stationers, Limerick, containing transcripts of letters to or concerning Edmund Sexton Pery (1719-1806), MP in the Irish House of Commons from 1751 to 1785 and three-time Speaker of the House (in 1771, 1776 and 1783). The first three pages constitute an index, which however is not fully consistent with the contents and suggests a second, now missing, volume of transcripts. The letters are not in chronological order, although a genera chronological sense in discernible in parts. The letters, written by high-profile statesmen and politicians of the day between 1749 and 1777, relate in the main to parliamentary and current affairs of the day, including political appointments, the state of the Irish revenue, the passing of various bills in the Irish House of Commons and Pery’s campaign to secure a position as Speaker in 1776. The letters also include references to the Seven Years War and, on a more personal note, to a house Pery is building. Other topics covered by the letters include the forthcoming marriage of Pery’s younger brother William to Dorothea Crump, ‘to whom I have been strongly attached for many years & whose fortune is much better than I could expect’ and who ‘is past fifty years old & therefore there is no danger of bringing me any children’ (letter no. 11); the death of Anne Drelincourt, Viscountess Primrose and the bequests to Pery and his wife in her will (no. 62); and the art of growing vines (no. 78). Brief biographical notes of the correspondents have been added to some of the transcripts in pencil in a different hand, presumably by Trifine Turner née de la Poer Monsell.

Letter written to Lady Anna Maria Monsell née Wyndham Quin (1814-1855), Adare Abbey, Adare shortly after the death [on 22 July 1837] of her first child, who died just two weeks after its birth [on 9 July 1837]. The writer is Frances Johnson-Walsh, her husband William Monsell’s maternal aunt.

Letter from William Monsell (1772-1837), Windsor Castle, to his uncle, the Reverend Samuel Monsell, ‘to be left until called for Pos=offce [sic] Edinburgh Scotland’. William hopes to have the pleasure of his uncle’s company in Windsor. He gives a detailed description of apartments taken in the Horseshoe Cloisters within Windsor Castle by Mrs Stock, presumably the widow of Bishop Joseph Stock who had died in August 1813, for William notes that ‘she is pitied by everyone she appears in so much grief’.

Letter from William Bennett, Bishop of Cloyne (1746-1820) in London to the Reverend Samuel Monsell in Fermoy. The letter relates to the Board of First Fruits deeds, which Bennett encourages Monsell to sign. He also assures Monsell that ‘I will not call upon you to build a Glebe House’.