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Circular letter from Wentworth Erck re reports on compensation, charges and purchase submitted to Irish Landowners’ Convention delegates.

Flier from Dodgson Hamilton Madden for the impending Trinity College (Dublin University) by-election. The flier reads ‘I have always been a firm supporter of the Conservative party, and I look upon its present position with pride. That party, with the patriotic aid of the Liberal Unionists, has succeeded in averting from the Empire disintegration and dishonour, and from Ireland a signal and crushing disaster’. Madden received 1,376 in the contest and was elected an MP.

A flier advertising publications from the offices of the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union in Dublin.

Letter to James Pearse from George Standring, printer and publisher 7 & 9 Finsbury Street, London. The letter refers to disappointing sales for a publication and his advertising for the same in the ‘Freethinker’ and ‘National Reformer’ magazines.

An admission ticket to an event honouring Charles Stewart Parnell in Edinburgh. The public demonstration (organised by a local Liberal association) was held on 20 July 1889 and marked the bestowal upon Parnell of the freedom of the Scottish city.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I have written a letter to the “Agnostic Journal” upon [the] same subject (agnosticism and atheism) principally because my name was mentioned therein’.

Letter to James Pearse from R. Forder, publisher, 28 Stonecutter Street, London, regarding an order for books from Pearse.

A clipping of an article reporting on the funeral of William Woodlock. The article notes that Woodlock died on 12 June 1890 (aged 58). It reads ‘The remains of the late Mr. William Woodlock JP, one of the Divisional Police Magistrates of Dublin, were removed this morning from his residence, Mounty Square, for internment in Glasnevin Cemetery … the burial service was recited by the Most Rev. [Bartholomew] Woodlock, Bishop of Ardagh’. The article notes that Bishop Bartholomew Woodlock was William Woodlock’s uncle.

A photograph print of retired British Army soldiers outside the entrance to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin.

A clipping of a short death notice for William Woodlock, ‘one of the Divisional Magistrates of Dublin’. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (June 1890).