File of correspondence gathered by E & G Stapleton relating to the sale of the Belvoir Estate. The letters received by E & G Stapleton are stamped with their date of receipt and there are copy letters sent by them in reply. There are letters relating to the head rent paid to Lord Leconfield, including a map on which William Wilson Lynch promotes the case of John Murphy for additional land, he 'was bailiff on the estate during the hardest times' (30 May 1913). Another letter from William Wilson Lynch details the background to the turf cutting case (23 Jan 1915). Letters from James H Moran and Son, solicitors, 5 Mallow St., Limerick, also refeer to the turf cutting case with Stephens, Molony and Earls, whom they represented (15 May 1915). There are also letters relating to the Sixmilebridge Drainage Scheme, and arrears of quit rent, which involved P.E. O'Donnell, solicitor for the Dowell estate, 8 Glenworth St., Limerick and a Mr Barrington. A number of letters refer to the encumbrances on the estate. Mrs. Hannah Fair, who held a mortgage pf £6000 on the estate, was represented by her son Charles E Fair, solicitor, of Kelly and Fair, Athlone, Co Westmeath. Letters dated 1919 from Messrs. A and J Robinson, solicitor, 119 Stephens Green West, Dublin, represent the interest held by Elizabeth Jane Ussher Stopford in the sale of the estate. Also included are a number of statements from tenants verifying the Poor Law Valuation and rent of their holdings dated 1916. Some copies of orders fixing the fair rent in 1899 are included with these statements. They refer to the following tenants: Bridget Molony, Paterick Heffernan, Edward Kelly, Daniel McNamara, Thomas O'Grady, Peter McInerney, Henry Stephens, Thomas Moloney and Michael Downey. One Form 46 relates to Peter McInerney and one letter from AW Hazell relates to the Duras estate.
