Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

B: Essays, loose notes or lectures by Richard Dowdenc1830-1861 (10 items/series)

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U140/B

Date:

c1830 - 1861

Level : series Title:

Essays, loose notes or lectures by Richard Dowden

Extent: 10 items/series (14 individual items) Scope and Content:

Various essays, loose notes or lectures by Richard Dowden, such as religious constitutions of America, the death penalty and punishment, land ownership, botanical matters, biology, zoology, taxonomy of mammals, cash land trade, evils of (political) patronage, horse racing. Probably related to papers given to the Cork Literary and Scientific Society.

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U140/B/001

Date:

?1830 - ?1860

Level : item Title:

MS. notes by [Richard Dowden]

Extent: 47pp Scope and Content: MS. notes by [Richard Dowden], on the religious constitutions of America.

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U140/B/002

Date:

?1830s

Level : item Title:

MS. Essay or article by Richard Dowden

Extent: 29pp Scope and Content: MS. Essay, article or lecture by Richard Dowden on the death penalty and punishment. Possibly for the Cork Literary and Scientific Society.

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U140/B/003

Date:

?1830s - 1840s

Level : item Title:

MS. Essay or article by Richard Dowden

Extent: 20pp Scope and Content:

MS. essay or notes by Richard Dowden. Appears to concern issues of land ownership. Refers to absentee landlords, etc. [First pages missing, may have been a notebook originally. May be partial copy of U140/B/008.

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U140/B/004

Date:

?1830s - 1840s

Level : item

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

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