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        <p>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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      <p>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<lb/>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.]</p>
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      <subject>World War 1</subject>
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        <date>June 2021, Leslie Duggan.<lb/><lb/>Original descriptions by A.W.P Malcomson, Calendar of the Rosse Papers (Dublin, 2008).</date>
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