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Eighteenth-century letters and papers, 1705-1887, of both branches of the Parsons family, but almost all of them deriving from the Parsonses of Parsonstown - excluding the papers of Sir Laurence Parsons, 5th Baronet, later 2nd Earle of Rosse, which constitute Sections C-F.

Correspondence of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Rosse with fellow-astronomers or about the Birr and other observatories, including correspondence of the 5th and 6th Earls about the Birr Observatory, 1840-1909, 1913-14, 1938 and 1964-84.

T.C.D. exercise book [of the 4th Earl?] on ancient and British history, with related printed papers, and the 4th Earl’s degree in Physics.

King’s County and Co. Tipperary commissions of the peace for Lord Oxmantown, subsequently the 4th Earl.

Letters to the 4th Earl from the Chief Secretary, Lord Mayo, and others about representative peerage elections, including that of the 4th Earl himself.

Correspondence of the 4th Earl about yachting, Cowes, etc. [See also J/25 and 0/8.]

Original bundle of applications/ recommendations for the post of head gardener at Birr (Andrew Hume being the successful applicant).

Letters to the 4th Earl freom Arthur Kavanagh [of Borris House, Co. Carlow] about the work of the Irish Land Corporation

Correspondence of the 4th Earl with Sir H[enry] Hervey Bruce and others about misrepresentations of the 4th Earl in evidence before the select committee on Irish industries.

Letters and papers, mostly of the 4th and 5th Earls and Dr Otto Boeddicker, concerning Parsons family history and genealogy, including information about the Oxmantown/Phoenix Park property, sold by the elder branch of the Parsons family to the crown in 1672. Of particular interest is a paper entitled ‘How the Parsons, Earls of Rosse, got the Titles of Baron and Viscount of Oxmantown’.