Descriptive list of the Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) Collection
Daniel in 1848 . Daniel provided financial support to Jeremiah’s son, Charles, and his family for many years and, following Charles’ death, the family gave the original pedigree to Daniel in 1867 [ see PR70/B/585]. Daniel MacCarthy was a noted philanthropist and sponsored the education of students [see for example, PR70/B/183], supported poor families and individuals in west Cork [see PR70/B/466 and PR70/B/491], and commissioned public monuments to honour the MacCarthy clan [see PR70/B/240 and PR70/E/6], all of which are documented in detail in the collection. The collection also includes a significant number of records relating to Daniel’s wife, children, and grandchildren. Many of these records were created after Daniel’s death in 1884 and broaden the scope of the collection greatly in terms of geography (with records relating to India, South Africa, and the USA), medium (many of the records consist of paintings, drawings and photographs), and date (with records dating up to 1940).
System of Arrangement A:
Literary works written by Daniel MacCarthy (Glas) [21 items]
B:
Correspondence [1087 items]*
C:
Manuscript volumes [4 volumes (336 file/item level descriptions)]
D:
Documents relating to Daniel MacCarthy's genealogical research [31 items]
E:
Daniel MacCarthy: Miscellaneous Personal Items [15 items]
F:
Daniel MacCarthy's Family [86 items]
G:
Paintings and drawings [119 items]
H:
Published works by other authors [18 items]
I:
Miscellaneous [4 items]
*PR70/B ‘ Correspondence ’ is arranged alphabetically by surname 2 of sender and then chronologically. Numerous original and copy letters are also included in Daniel's manuscript volumes [PR70/C]. For a complete list of all the correspondence included in both PR70/B and PR70/C, see appendix ii. It appears that many of the letters in PR70/B were originally stored by Daniel MacCarthy in envelopes. Several envelopes were labelled by Daniel with various correspondents' names, such as "Sir Samual Ferguson, Dean O'Brien, Earl Granard …" which would suggest that these envelopes originally contained a mixture of correspondence, while other envelopes were labelled according to the topic of the letters, for example: "Correspondence relative to the Chieftainship of the MCs - MacCarthy Mor", and "Miscellaneous, Genealogical ..."
2 Lords and Earls, and those with other titles of the British nobility, are arranged by their title name rather than their family surname, if this is how they signed their letters to Daniel MacCarthy. For example, the 7th Earl of Granard, George Forbes signs his letters simply as "Granard" and Lord Dunraven (Edwin Wyndham-Quin) signs his letters "Dunraven".
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