A drawing of St. Kevin’s Kitchen (also known as St. Kevin’s Church), a twelfth century nave-and-chancel church at the monastic settlement in Glendalough in County Wicklow. The illustration is dated and initialled by Peter Frederick Anson. A newspaper clipping reproducing the drawing and titled ‘A pilgrim’s sketchbook by Peter F. Anson / St. Kevin’s Kitchen, Glendalough’ is present on the reverse.
A drawing of St. Augustine’s Church in Dungarvan in County Waterford. The illustration is titled ‘Augustinian Church / Dungarvan’.
A drawing of the ruins of Raholp Church in County Down. The illustration is dated and initialled by Peter Frederick Anson. This small pre-Norman church is associated with Bishop Tassach and is known locally as St. Tassach’s. Early sources suggest that Tassach administered the last sacraments to Saint Patrick.
A drawing of St. David’s Church in Pantasaph in North Wales. The illustration’s title notes that Pantasaph is the ‘novitiate of the English Province of the Friars Minor Capuchin’. The illustration is dated and signed by Peter Frederick Anson.
A drawing of the façade of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini (Our Lady of the Conception of the Capuchins) near Piazza Barberini in Rome. The illustration is initialled by Peter Frederick Anson.
A drawing of the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy. The illustration is initialled by Peter Frederick Anson.
A letter from Liam T. MacCosgair (William T. Cosgrave), Roinn an Uachtaráin, Sráid Mhuirbthean Uach, Baile Átha Cliath, to Douglas Hyde thanking him for the copy of ‘Dánta Dé’.
Letter from Arthur O’Shaughnessy to Miss Compton apologizing for not writing sooner and affirming that his time has been ‘wholly taken up visiting my friends the brotherhood of poets in Paris’.
An autographed print of Nellie Melba, a celebrated Australian soprano and operatic singer of the late Victorian era and the early twentieth century.
A file of letters from Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, a senior official in the Roman Curia. All the letters are written from Rome. One letter is dated 6 September 1801 with the remaining four seemingly dating from May to August 1817. The letters are unsigned and a few may be incomplete. With a covering envelope annotated ‘Consalvi’.