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76 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 528. 19th Century Rent Roll of a Landed Family, 1801-1843 Co. Westmeath: A m/ss volume bound in reversed calf, titled “Rent Roll & Tenants Accounts”; 18cms x 25cms [7” x 10”]; c. 120 pp + several loose pages. Records compiled for Edward Purdon Esq., who inherited Lisnabin, Killucan, Co. Westmeath, in 1790, and built the present house c 1840. Early pp cut out, then vol contains details of stock accounts, sheep and cattle bought and sold, etc., with notes on staff and tenants at the back. Runs from 1 Jan. 1820 to 29 Aug. 1843 and then from 1 Jan. 1801 to 31 Dec. 1819. Some letters and other documents loosely inserted. Sm. oblong folio, in good, reversed calf, pouch binding, with mor. label. As a m/ ss., w.a.f. (1) €400 - €600 529. Renting of Rathmines Castle, 1843 Co. Dublin: Letter (3 pp) written by Jane Arthur of Sea Point, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, 14 February 1843, to Messrs Stewart and Kincaid, Leinster Street (agents for Lord Palmerston), re the letting of Rathmines Castle. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, one of the great prime ministers of the Victorian era, inherited considerable estates in Ireland. Rathmines Castle was rented to the Arthur family, whose lease was due to expire shortly. In this letter, Jane Arthur, writing on behalf of her brother and sister, puts the case for renewing the lease, pointing to improvements that have been carried out and the potential for further development. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €80 - €120 530. Co. Meath Petty Sessions: Report of Petty Sessions held at Moynalty before Richard Chaloner Esq., Joseph Clinton, clerk, 14 November 1868: “Copies of Information’s against Hugh Tully, Philip Duffy, Edward Smith, John Brien and Peter Smith.” 6 pp. foolscap. Also: Information given by various witnesses concerning an affray at John Carolan’s house near Moynalty on 6 Jan. 1851. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) €180 - €250 531. Log Book of theWanderer Manuscript: Log Book of the brig Wanderer of Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1848-1852. 86 pp. Noting statistics of voyages, names of other ships seen, weather reports, etc. Ports of embarkation and destination include: Whitehaven to Dublin; Cork to Jamaica; Lamlash to Belfast; Westport to Quebec and from Ballina to St John, New Brunswick. Also: 19c print of Whitehaven harbour. At other end: a collection of verses suitable for children, Signed at the beginning by Doris Taggart of 14 Lonsdale Place, Whitehaven, 20 October 1850. 65 pp. The contents include some Psalms and poems by famous authors (Herrick, Wordsworth …) and by children’s authors such as Jane Taylor (author of “Twinkle, Twinkle, little star”), her sister Anne, and Mary Lundie Duncan. The last four pages are in a later and younger hand, Signed by Maurice Clifford, neatly written but replete with spelling mistakes; includes the evocative little poem“On the Stableyard Railway”. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 532. Poignant Family Letters to a Young Officer serving in the CrimeanWar Two Manuscript Letters addressed from 21 Clifton Terrace, Brighton, 27 April and 12 May 1854, to “Ensign H.S. Marsh, 33rd Regt, Turkey”. Hans Stephenson St Vincent Marsh, born in November 1833, was the second son of Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Digby Marsh, a naval officer with an impressive record for bravery, and his wife Adelaide (née Robley). His grandfather was the Rev. Jeremy Marsh, rector of Rosenallis, Queen’s County (a descendant of Archbishop Francis Marsh of Dublin and of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down and Connor). He had elder siblings Adelaide (“Ady”) andWilloughby (“Willy”), an officer in the Royal Engineers, and younger siblings Horatio and Rosamond (“Rosy”). When these letters were written he was a twenty-year-old ensign in the 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regiment, quartered in the barracks at Scutari. The first letter (c 1,300 words) is from his mother, the second (c 1,600 words) from his sister Ady, with a PS from his mother. Both letters are full of anxiety for his welfare and questions about his life in Turkey (“Horatio and Rosy are very desirous of knowing whether you have chairs to sit on, or whether you sit cross-legged on divans”). They also report on an expedition by “Papa” and Ady to Ireland, where they revisit the scenes of his childhood, staying with the Baldwins at Castle Cuffe, the Biddulphs at Rathrobin, and Henrietta Hill at Ely Place in Dublin (where “poor Freddy” becomes infatuated with Ady); Papa meets an old friend now teaching at St Columba’s, and they are taken for a tour of the college and have lunch with the Warden. As manuscripts, w.a.f. Postscript: After the 33rd left for the Crimea in November, the barracks at Scutari were converted into a military hospital which soon became the scene of Florence Nightingale’s heroic endeavours. Hans Marsh was promoted to lieutenant, served with great courage in the fighting at the Alma, Inkerman, and the Redan, and was killed in the trenches during the siege of Sebastopol, aged 21. His younger brother Horatio studied at Cambridge, where the family went to live and where his parents are buried. His elder brother, Colonel Willoughby Marsh, retired to live at Brownsbarn, Co. Kilkenny, where he was succeeded on his death in 1924 by his daughter Anna and her husband the 6th Lord Teignmouth. (2) €300 - €400 531