Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

D:

Personal Accounts and Receipts ?1820s-1849 (6 items)

Ref.

U140/D

Date:

?1820s - 1849

Level : file Title:

Personal Accounts and Receipts of Richard Dowden

Extent: 6 items Scope and Content: 1. [?1820s] MS. fragment of [personal] financial account of Richard Dowden. (20pp) 2. March 1845 Fragment of account book of Richard Dowden as Mayor of Cork. Amounts include; car hire, poor relief, discharging a poacher, newspapers, sending an orphan boy from Sundays Well to sea, etc. (4pp)

3. [?1840s] MS. receipt from a [hotel], to Richard Dowden, for dinner, bed, breakfast, tea etc. Total £2.2.1 (1 item)

4. [?1840s] MS receipt to Richard Dowden from Radley's Hotel, College Green, Dublin for breakfast, dinner, tea, washing. (2pp)

5. [?1840s] MS note / receipt re. bill of Richard Dowden for hotel in Mallow and car to Charleville. (1p)

6. 5 Sep 1849 MS. receipt from hotel to Richard Dowden for breakfast, dinner, washing, bed, etc. (2pp)

E:

Literature and Poetry 1816 – 1853

(11 items)

Ref.

U140/E

Date:

1816 - 1853

Level : series Title:

Literature and Poetry

Extent: 11 items Scope and Content:

MS material containing various extracts from poetry, songs, and literature; topics include: the burial of Sir John Moore, female philosophers, Windle, friendship, Thomas Hincks, religion, poem 'The Rose of Gurranabraher', science.

Ref.

U140/E/001

Date:

6 Sep [1816]

Level : item Title: Extent: 2pp

Copy of letter and poem

U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List

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