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Attested copy affidavit of Cecil G Stapleton relating to a request as determined by Section 7 of the Irish Land Act 1903 and congestion on the Belvoir estate. Includes attached letter from the Estates Commissioners Office of the Irish Land Commission, to E & G Stapleton, stating that they would not be seeking a request (8 Mar 1917). Inscribed Exhibit A in the affidavit.

"Copy article from the ""Irisleabhar"" [organ of the Comhaltas Cána, the society for the officers of Customs and Excise], with list of staff changes; also poem by Seán Ua Dubhgáin in praise of Mícheál MacFhlanncha; poem corresponding to pp.11-12 in the published item [partly in Irish]."

Copy assignment of mortgage of £8,000 charged on lands in the Cos of Galway, Clare and Tipperary and secured by life insurance policies held by William Daly and Denis St George Daly with Standard Life. Henrietta Daly, Dunsandle, spinster (1), Thomas George Segrave, Kempshott, Southampton, Hants, England, naval officer (2), and Col Francis McDonnell, Plas Newydd Usk, Monmouthshire, and Andrew William Blake, Attymon, Athenry, Co Galway, esq [trustees] (3). This deed was enacted prior to the marriage of Henrietta and Thomas Segrave. Richardson and Synnott, [solicitors].

Copy book containing a handwritten draft of a review of 'Edmund Wilson: A Biography' by Jeffrey Meyers which was published under the title 'A Critic Who Was One of the Elect' in The Irish Times on 23 September 1995. Begins 'All four of Edmund Wilson's Grandparents were born in New York State.' Also contains draft of a foreword to The Face of Time: Photographs of County Leitrim , beginning 'I have to declare an immediate interest in that Liam Kelly and myself are what's called in Leitrim "Far out Relations", but neither of us looked into it too closely since we subscribe to Ambrose Bierce's dictionary definition of Genealogy....'

Copy book containing a handwritten draft of a review of 'Pleasant the Scholar's Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State' by Maurice Goldring which was published as 'The Forging of the State' in ' The Irish Times ' on 23 July 1994. Begins 'Maurice Goldring has been described as France's leading historian of Irish culture and is professor of Irish Studies in the University of Paris.' Also contains a hand written draft of a piece on Blake's of the Hollow a pub and restaurant in Enniskillen beginning 'I have been going to Blake's of the Hollow for close on twenty years.' Also a page of a handwritten draft of a piece of fiction beginning 'As the minute hand passed three on the electric clock he pressed the buzzer and listened to the sound shrill through the corridors.'

Copy book containing a handwritten draft of an article on James Joyce's 'Dubliners', beginning 'Dubliners has been compared many times to "The Untilled Field" Also contains a handwritten draft of part of ' The Country Funeral ' beginning 'as if in obedience to some hidden signal or law, everyone rose and, shook hands with the three brothers in turn and left them with Jim and Maggie Cullen. Paginated pp 25-42. Also includes speaking notes for an address at the 'Arts Club' in Belfast in honour of Michael McLaverty on his 85th birthday, begins ' I consider it an honour to speak here this evening in praise of Michael McLaverty and I think it a great and good thing that the Arts Club should be honouring such a good writer in his life time in his own city....'

Copy book containing a handwritten draft of part of a story entitled 'Kelly' which became 'The Rockingham Shoot', begins 'Sir John Massey, the British Ambassador, came every year to the annual pheasant shoot in Rockingham.' paginated pp 45 - 74; copybook also contains part of a handwritten draft of 'Oldfashioned' beginning 'They came every evening except on Sunday, exactly at nine, and parked the blue Rover in front of Charlie's door.'

Copy book containing a handwritten draft of part of 'Morocco: The Bitter and the Sweet' beginning 'In the spring I got a call to ask if I'd travel to Morocco and write about that country.' Also contains part of a handwritten manuscript of a piece about the Presentation Brothers School in Carrick-on-Shannon beginning 'A secondary school was opened by the Brothers in the Town.'

Copy book containing several handwritten fragments of 'Love of The World'.

Copy book containing two handwritten drafts of parts of 'That They May Face The Rising Sun' one beginning " 'I Think I have to get away from here for a time,' ", paginated pp 1-4; The Other beginning '...a further shore. Soon after the ford turned uphill away from the shore its stoplights came on between the high banks in the middle of the lake.' Paginated pp 43-54.