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Three resolutions passed at a meeting of the County Louth branch of the Property Defence Association.

A flier from the Emergency Committee outlining its aims and its work to date. The flier asks for subscriptions to enable the Committee to carry out its work. The flier reads ‘Although the Committee is connected with the Orange Society, its aid has been and will continue to be given to all persons irrespective of creed and political views’. It also affirms that the ‘Committee have had 300 labourers engaged in cutting and saving hay and other crops, in 19 different counties in Ireland; and many persons would have lost their entire crops but for the action of the Committee’. The document was issued by Athol Johnson Dudgeon, honorary secretary.

A reprint of an article from the ‘Daily Express’ extolling the ‘noble work done by the Orange Committee’. Issued from the Committee’s Offices in Dublin by Athol Johnson Dudgeon, honorary secretary.

Circular notice giving the names of members and individuals serving on various committees of the Irish Landowners’ Convention.

Letter from Robert. M.D. Sanders, Honorary Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention. Sanders asks for ‘particulars of any sales of tenant right’. He adds that the committee ‘desire this information for the purpose of ascertaining the relative value of the tenant right on estates’ since the passage of the Land Act of 1881.

Letter from B.R. Balfour, Townley Hall, Drogheda, County Louth, to John Ribton Garstin, Braganstown, Castlebellingham, County Louth, referring to enclosed papers relating to the ‘Irish Landowners’ Convention and the Irish Unionist Alliance’.

Circular letter from Gilbert De L. Willis, Secretary, Irish Landowners’ Convention, re the forthcoming annual meeting of the Convention to be held in Dublin.

A flier from the Irish Defence Union titled ‘What Boycotting Means’. The flier includes a list of general committee members of the Irish Defence Union ‘in aid of persons suffering from illegal coercion in Ireland’.

Flier promoting the interest of Edward Gibson (1837-1913) to the electors of the Trinity College, Dublin. In 1875, Gibson won a parliamentary by-election in the TCD constituency against an official candidate.