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Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. Largely concerning "the division" [of lands] to be made with Frederick Trench. He has been getting another opinion [legal "from a Mr. Adams". Regarding family matters he writes "Aunt Jenny has gone to Ashford with Mrs. Rainsford; will you tell Kitt to ride Tommy's pony". Includes a copy of a letter to Anthony from Frederick Trench, Berkley Square, in which Trench writes he is "extremely happy to find the proposition submitted to you has met your approbation ... my son Mr. Frederick Trench ... will wait on you in person on this business ... as will our surveyor Mr. Longfield ..." [May 1815].

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. All to do with the Trench family and division of "cares in common". He begins the letter "You will I suppose be as much surprized as I was at what I am now going to tell you ..." He went to the Registry Office to see "how Trench came by the acres in common or whether he could claim more than the 255 acres which were specified in the lease ..." He found a deed dated 1803 being "the very year you and he were writing to each other ..." in which Trench levied various fines and made settlements " but not one word about the acres in common ... how he could make such a settlement at the very time you and he were corresponding as more so, how he could be applying to you to divide what he has no power to do, except by filing a bill in Chancery which be a most expensive proceeding ... you must see clearly by this conduct of his that it requires to be very sharp and particular with him ..."

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. Largely concerning the business with the Trench family. He saw Mr. Trench "yesterday for a few minutes ... I went to Swords to see him where he has been since he arrived [from England] with his son who has been living in that place ..." but Mr. Trench had left for town.

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. After referring to the health of his parents he continues "I hope please God, in the course of next month to bring Anne to see you and my mother. Tom is very well and going on very well at school ... will make every enquiry about the situation you want for Peter Phibbs ... I spoke to Whitelaw to speak to Lady Leitrim about Peter Phibbs and he promised he would ... My uncle and aunt are very well and Anne Phibbs etc. ..." There is also a brief mention of Anthony Phibbs and his half pay.

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. In which he writes "I have been looking for the chair you mention ... you did not mention whether it was to be drawn by a horse of by a man ... I have never met with anything of the kind in Dublin in my visits to the different coachmakers, so likely to answer, as the bath chair my mother has by putting two wheels to the front ... Anne and I hope soon to have the pleasure of seeing you and my mother.

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, from No 12, Upper Rutland Street, [Dublin} in which he writes - "We arrived safe and well, Thank God, in town on Sunday last at half past one o'clock from Kilcock, where we slept on Saturday night and were better off than I expected ... they have had remarkably fine weather here these two months past ... all our friends are very well ... we are settled here tolerably comfortable in Mrs. Lloyd's house, she does not intend to come to town till about April, except for a short while Anne is confined. She pressed us very much to take the use of the house, but I would not come into it unless she allows me to pay for it ... The house is very comfortable for a small house but the situation is very much out of the way and far from the market ... will you desire Peter to tell Anthony Phibbs I am very much afraid there is very little chance of getting an exchange ...

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. A letter concerning "a piece of stick you sent by Anthony Ormsby (his nephew) to get four boxes made to fit it, to bring it to a coachmaker he told me that if he made the four boxes to fit it, that it was most likely they would not fit the four arms ... on this I thought better not to bespeak them until I let you know ..."

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. From 12 Rutland Street, he begins the letter "I don't know if you have heard before this that Bob Ruttledge has purchased Maidenhill for £3000, I considered it so great a bargain that I thought it a pity ro let him get it, at least without paying the value for it. I therefore have opened the sale and intend bidding as far as £3600 for it. To raise the money he has asked his brother Tom to take a new lease, "his answer was that he thought it would be foolish in him to give up his present lease ... you will therefore oblige me very much if you will send me a line to my uncle to give me as many of your debentures as I may call for ... I have Tom Elwood's [father of his first wife] bond for £1000 amd Owen Lloyd's [brother of his wife Anne] for £2000 and my uncle owes me some money so that I have security sufficient as far as I will go ..."

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. Concerning the Maidenhill property "... most probable Bob Ruttledge will not let it go for that sum ... I am therefore thinking I will bid £4000 for it ... I will be obliged if you will lend me £1000 for which I will give you my bond payable in twelve months ... my purchase from Trench makes me very good security ... it is a pity to let what has been in our family for above forty years go under the value and what ought to be Toms if my grandfather [Thomas Ruttledge] had been a man of his word ..."

Letter from Colonel Anthony Ormsby, eldest son to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. Regarding his purchase of Maidenhead "I am very much obliged to you for allowing me to get any money of yours in my uncle's hands ... I was this day declared the purchaser of Maidenhill for £4100, Courtney Kenny and Livesay for Bob Ruttledge were the bidders against me ... There is of course eight days more to open the sale ... I wrote to my aunt Bermingham last week telling her of my intention ... I feel she is in Italy with the Charlemonts, in all events I must pay the money into Court in the first instance ... The Phibbs are all well and got into a new house on the south side of Merrion Square. They are going to Killarney in a few days ..."