Bundle of very fragile leases between William Smith Powell Doyle and Jeremiah [Carew], Patrick and Michael Gleeson. Lease between William Powell Doyle and Michael Ryan is unreadable.

Leases made between Robert [Jones] Staveley of Croydon Park Fairview Avenue Co.Dublin and tenants for lands in of Clouncrippy [Clooncrippa] Co. Limerick. Yearly rent prices vary from £5:9:2 to £24. Tenants include Micheal Reidy, Garett Long, David Regan, John Long, Edmund Riordan John Lynch, James Hannan. Includes two sets of leases for Partick Long one being for 20 acres for yearly rent of £20:1:7 made the 14 March 1840, the other for 8 acres for yearly rent of £12:10:11. All leases are set for a term of 2 lives and 21 years concurrent.

Folders of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcripts and copies of letters held in PRONI (D3561) (50pp). c.7 letters (14pp) transcribed by Kerby from what is available. Also research on Todd and Christian County, Kentucky, and Hinds County, Mississippi. James Richey and later his brother Andrew arrive in the American South, and write home to their family giving their news, and on matters of religion and politics where they live, including on the slavery question. For details of individual letters see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/search?ASSET_COLLECTION=865&c=865

Folder of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcripts of 4 letters, held in PRONI (T1727) (18pp). Copies of originals (36pp), some published in "Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild” (1984). Letters from James and Robert Wray from New York and Pennsylvania back to their brother Thomas, along with their mother and sister, living in Quilleybane, Parish of Dunboe, bear Coleraine, County Derry. The letters recount family news, including their brother John who lives near Kentucky, as well as asking after family at home and their good situation teaching in the States. For individual letters see https://imirce.universityofgalway.ie/p/ms/search?ASSET_COLLECTION=863&c=863

Folder of research material by Kerby Miller. Includes transcript of letter held in PRONI (T2850/1/5) (4pp), Kerby transcript (4pp), file of research and correspondence by Kerby, including copy of material on Moses Paul from Virginia State Library & Archives. Moses Paul, Petersburg, Virginia, admonishes his friend John Graham, Magherafelt, County Derry, for not writing to him since he arrived in 'this republic" nearly two years previous, even as he acknowledges Graham's kindness to his sister. The latter has written to Paul but he presumes "She is still as prejudiced as ever against America and Americans". While stating that he has 'turned American" he admits that "Americans are a little [underlined] better than savages [...] I know we are blamed for slavery, but we cannot help it -- we are obliged [...]". He claims that he is composing this letter while an auctioneer is 'displaying his Eloquence before the enlightened and free sons of Columbia -- over a lot of fine, healthy, likely negroes he is hiring out for the year 1841". He explains 'hiring out" as a means to send slaves that he owns but has no work for, to an auctioneer who will rent them out for a year to the highest bidder. Paul hopes he will see his relatives again 'but I am living in an uncertain climate -- here today and gone tomorrow". He asks Graham to send his affection to "that sweet Miss Eliza Duncan" but tell her he almost fell in love in America with "one of the most beautiful ladies I ever saw".