File 32 - Correspondence of the Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons relating to family history

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IE BCA ROSSE/M/32

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Correspondence of the Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons relating to family history

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  • 1899: [1901: 1907-9: 1914-56] (Creation)

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Family, and family history, correspondence of the Hon. Geoffrey L. Parsons, including: a letter from his father, the 4th Earl, just before the latter’s death; letters from his brother, the 5th Earl, who writes from the Front during the First World
War, and a letter reporting that the 5th Earl has been seriously wounded; letters from Anthony de Brie, a portrait-painter, about his portraits of the 4th Earl and of Parsons’s wife; letters from Dr Otto Boeddicker offering items of antique furniture for sale; and an envelope of newspaper cuttings and other material concerning the family collected by Geoffrey Parsons, c.1915-55. [For letters to Geoffrey Parsons from his uncle, Sir Charles Parsons, see Section R.]

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Access strictly by appointment only. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

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May be reproduced in accordance with provisions of the Copyright and Related Rights Acts (2000). No reproduction online, in print or broadcast without express permission of copyright holder.

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Supplementary catalogue entry: Also includes letter from Len C. Huff, member of the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain concerning the ownership of Geoffrey Parsons of ‘a magnificent Rolls Royce.’

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June 2021, Leslie Duggan.

Original descriptions by A.W.P Malcomson, Calendar of the Rosse Papers (Dublin, 2008).

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