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Soft-cover notebook with handwritten poems attributed to the Webb family. In addition to poems, the book contains an essay written in 1893 by Deborah Webb describing holidays in Kilkee 51 years earlier. Inserted between the pages are 40 loose inserts of mainly handwritten or printed poems, some of them unattributed. One of these poems is entitled Walt Whitman in Killarney. Also inserted is a bound set of autographs of guests at the Golden Wedding anniversary of Thomas and Mary Webb celebrated at 56 Kenilworth Square, Dublin, in 1883.

A 72-page notebook marked ‘Receipts’ on the front cover. The book contains handwritten and gummed-in printed remedies for both farm livestock and persons. There are maintenance hints and directions for gardens, farmyards, houses and furniture. Inserted between the pages are two printed notes relating to the activities of a book club, a press cutting for a cure for cholera, and a sheet of blotting paper.

Notebook containing handwritten travel details. Unpaginated.

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.

Notebook containing lists of students, rooms, and officials [at St Patrick’s College?] for 1927-1928, 1928-1929, 1929-1930, and 1930-1931.

Notebook containing handwritten research notes for the travelogue My Ireland including chapter structure and related notes, and financial calculations. The notebook begins with an incomplete draft of the structure: ‘Foreword. 1. Hesitations. 2. Holy Places.’ The following is recorded about the Burren in county Clare: ‘…alkaline limestone. Carboniferous, ledged, shelved – in plateau formation. Small flowers… Shelter in crevices.’ Unpaginated.

Notebook containing a handwritten essay on the art of writing which begins: ‘The art of writing – the art – is that which stands a long way back from the idea of writing.’ Also handwritten research notes for the unpublished novel, Constancy, including chapter structure and character sketches. Unpaginated.

Notebook containing handwritten extracts by Heffernan from books relating to Tipperary history; subjects include New Inn and Knockgraffon; John Griffin, parish priest of Knockgraffon; Dr O’Connor, first president of St Patrick’s College in Thurles; and Dr Patrick Everard, Archbishop of Cashel. Also a related photocopy including notes on the same topics, and on Garrymore Cross Ambush; Galbally; and Ballywire.

Notebook kept by John Heffernan, marked on the inside cover ‘A General Compendium English Notes II’ and containing notes on Francis Bacon, Dante Alighieri, Eugene O’Growney, and Thomas Davis.

Hardback notebook containing handwritten notes on history and English literature; and a section entitled ‘A.M.D.G. The Sacred Ceremonies of the Church at Low and High Mass, and on Diverse other Occasions’. Signed ‘Andrew Heffernan’ on the front leaf.