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Book of salary and expenditure of the Lamb family, written by William Lamb for throught the year of 1874. Includes very detailed financial accounts for the cost of coal and gas, servants wages, cost of rent, fire insurance rates, taxes, furniture, house repairs and painting, cost of garden upkeep, his sister Mary Lamb's allowance for clothes and pocket money, his wife Alice Lamb's allowance for clothes and pocket money, William Lamb's cost of clothes, and his aunt Margaret Lamb's allowance.
A biography of George Minchin Minchin written after his death for the Royal Society. It is in an envelope addressed to Mister Lamb, Frascati, Blackrock, Dublin.
An autograph book which belonged to someone in the Lamb family. Contains excerpts of poetry, drawings, and signatures from friends and celebrities including: Queen Victoria (1819-1901); Princess Alexandra of Wales (1844-1925); Actress Alice Ellen Terry (1847-1928); Ada Elle Bayly “Edna Lyall” (1857-1903); William Gladstone (1809-1898); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882); Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892); Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900); Charles Dickens (1812-1870); John Ruskin (1819-1900); Israel Zangwill (1864-1926); Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).
Advertisement for a clearance sale of live stock, farm implements, farm produce, and household furniture in Clara on Tuesday, 5 October 1920. Posted by McGlynn and Hanlon Auctioneers, and printed by Athlone and Tullamore Printing Works.