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Clipping of, "The meagre rewards of going public hardly seem worth the boredom and inconvenience" from The Irish Times about Tom Pakenham and his home, Tullynally Castle.

Letter from Katerine Flynn at Upper Main Street, Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, to Canon Adam Lamb regarding an extract from the Armstrong papers.

Letter from Norman William English at Scotch Parade, Athlone, County Westmeath, to Doctor Keith Lamb at Ballykilty, Malahide, County Dublin. Contains a list of location of bee-boles in Ireland.

Two pages cut from the Westmeath-Offaly Independent newspaper from Friday, 23 March 1973.

Clipping of the advertisement for the auction of Craddenstown House, Raharney, Mullingar, County Westmeath, from the Irish Times.

Envelope addressed to Miss Plunkett-Johnston, Rockfield, Moate, County Westmeath, Ireland, with an intact purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted on 18 December 1900. Inside are forty-four stamps that have been cut from thirty-three envelopes.

Includes:

1. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted September 1900, in London.
2. Two green Queen Victoria halfpenny stamps, posted 1 October 1900, in London.
3. Single, rose Sage/Peace and Commerce twenty-five cent stamp, posted 8 October 1900, in France.
4. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 7 November 1900, in Dorking.
5. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 25 November 1900, in Belfast.
6. Two green Queen Victoria halfpenny stamps, posted 5 Dec 1900, in Dorking.
7. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 7 January 1901, in London.
8. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 19 January 1901, in Dorking.
9. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 22 January 1901, in Dorchester.
10. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 22 January 1901, in West Kensington.
11. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 17 February 1901, in Monkstown, Dublin.
12. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 18 February 1901, in Dorking.
13. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 22 February 1901, in Dublin.
14. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 24 February 1901.
15. Two green Queen Victoria halfpenny stamps, posted 26 February 1901, in Englefield Green.
16. Two green Queen Victoria halfpenny stamps, posted 9 March 1901, in Dorking.
17. Two green Queen Victoria halfpenny stamps, posted 18 March 1901, in Dorking.
18. Two green Queen Victoria halfpenny stamps, posted 6 April 1901, in Dorking.
19. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 2 July 1901, in West Kensington.
20. Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted 18 May 1901, in Dorking.
21. Three George Washington (Scott #252, Type III) two cent stamps, posted 15 October 1901.
22. (x5) Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted before 1902, in Dorking.
23. (x2) Single purple Queen Victoria one penny stamp, posted before 1902.
24. Four purple Queen Victoria one penny stamps, posted before 1902, in Belfast.
25. Single green King George V (Type I, Die A) halfpenny stamp, posted 10 August 1911, Dorchester.
26. Single green King George V (Type II) halfpenny stamp, posted 19 Mar 1914, in Dorchester.
27. Single blue Edmund Rice two and a half pence stamp, posted 4 October 1944, in Dublin.
28. Single red Queen Elizabeth (Machin series) four pence stamp.

Envelope which contains two photographic negatives of the ruins of McAuley Castle at Farmagh, Clonlonan, County Westmeath. Photographs taken by Norman William English.

Original incoming and copy outgoing correspondence relating to the administration of the Geashill Estate. Matters referred to include Col. Bury granted the concession of Cole Hill area; supply of poles for ESB; Lord Digby's broken leg; purchase by Offaly County Council of a site in Ballydonnan for housing site (includes map with coloured section); Clonad hit by storms and blizzards but no major damage; sale of Ballingaore House by the Perry Estate; poaching on Derrygunnigan woods; repatriation of items confiscated during a trip in August 1946; repair of Geashill Garda Barracks.

Includes letter to Muir from Digby detailing effects of rations and austerity in post-war Britain: "Lady Digby was beaten by the Farmers Union Candidate in fact the number of women on our [County Council] was reduced to 3... Things here are getting very unpleasant and terribly expensive. The Budget looms ahead in rather a disagreeable light! ... Restrictions are very severe about timber cutting here. you cant cut your own trees unless they are dead, and if they are dead you can't get any one to saw them up. I can't get a portable handsaw that I want and there are no saw benches about that aren't commanded by the Ministry of Supply". (1 April 1946).

Includes letter from James Brophy, Derrygolan to Digby, informing him that there is "a well containing oil on [my] turf bank". (4 June 1947).

Includes letter from Digby to Kennedy, describing a great holiday in Ireland where he was able to bring back all the things he purchased to the UK as dual resident "The inevitable economic crisis which I forecast when I was with you has fallen with great severity upon us all... We managed to get all the things that we bought in Eire safely over to this country and had no trouble on either side. I found the fact that I was a dual-resident was a great help" (22 September 1947).

Letter from J E Geoghegan at Belcamp, Raheny, County Dublin to Keith Lamb regarding Twyford House, Twyford, County Westmeath.