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A clipping of an obituary and appreciation for Ellen Woodlock (1811-1884). The article was published in the ‘Cork Examiner’ (16 July 1884).

Flier seeking subscriptions for a testimonial in favour of Philip Callan MP (1837-1902) during his 'absence in South America'. The flier is dated 22 January 1884 at Dundalk, County Louth. The reverse of the document is endorsed with manuscript notes by William Woodlock.

A flier for a meeting of the Alexander Martin Sullivan Tribute Fund held in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 24 October 1884.

Letter to James Pearse from George St. Clair, 127 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, expressing his thanks for sending the ‘small volume by “Humanitas”’.

Letters to James Pearse from W.J. Ramsey, Manager, the Progressive Publishing Company, 28 Stonecutter Street, London. The letter of 25 November 1884 encloses a clipping of an advertisement for ‘Socialism a curse / a reply to a Lecture delivered by Edward B. Aveling’ and ‘Is God the First Cause?’ (1883) by ‘Humanitas’ (James Pearse).

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘The fact is I am extremely disgusted with what I read in this morning’s papers, especially the action of the ungrateful Irish Party’.

Letter from John Patrick Lynch, Belfield, Stillorgan Road, Booterstown, Dublin, apologizing for not being able to attend Mrs Woodlock’s funeral in Glasnevin owing to the onset of a bad cold.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.

A carte-de-visite showing a view of the Marian shrine at the Church of St. John the Baptist in Knock in County Mayo. The print was produced by James McFarland, 79 Grafton Street, Dublin.

Three copy photographic images showing James and Margaret Pearse with their children Margaret Mary (born 1878), Patrick (born 1879), William (born 1881) and Mary Brigid (born 1884). Manuscript annotation on the reverse of two of the prints reads ‘Photo’s Geoghegan’s, Dublin’.