Descriptive list of the contents of the Richard Dowden archive collection 1808-1860. Dowden was Mayor of Cork City in 1845.
INTRODUCTION | 4 |
IDENTITY STATEMENT | 4 |
CONTEXT | 4 |
Archival History | 5 |
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE | 5 |
CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE | 10 |
ALLIED MATERIALS | 10 |
Related Units of Description | 10 |
PUBLICATION NOTE | 11 |
APPENDIX: ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS (U140/L) | 12 |
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF CONTENTS | 16 |
A: MS. Notebooks/Journals of Richard Dowden c1820 – c1850 (11 Items/ c700pp) | 16 |
B: Essays, loose notes or lectures by Richard Dowden c1830-1861 (10 items/series) | 20 |
C: ‘Botany in the Bohereens’ Publication ?1847-1858 (7 items) | 23 |
D: Personal Accounts and Receipts ?1820s-1849 (6 items) | 25 |
E: Literature and Poetry 1816 – 1853 (11 items) | 25 |
F: Family material, Richard Dowden 1820-1856 (2 items) | 29 |
G: Memorabilia 1829-1850s (14 items) | 30 |
H: Drawings ?1823-1840s (2 items) | 31 |
I: File of Newsclippings 1817-1856 (12 items) | 32 |
J: Printed ephemera and documents, many with MSS. inscriptions, relating to various organisations and causes 1820-1856 (10 series and 158 sub series) | 34 |
J/01: Societies 1821-1856 (59 files/series) | 34 |
J/02: Political and Local Government Material 1827-1848 (31 sub series) | 51 |
J/03 Educational bodies and activities 1820-1856 (9 sub series) | 75 |
J/04: Religious Organisations 1820-1855 (10 files/series) | 87 |
J/05: Charities 1824-1860s (11 files/series) | 91 |
J/06: Commercial Entities 1832-1858 (12 files/series) | 95 |
J/07: Medical Institutions 1808-1853 (6 files/series) | 102 |
J/08: Theatre and Concerts 1830s-1860s (8 series) | 104 |
J/09: Published Booklets and Pamphlets 1830s-1860s (6 items) | 107 |
J/10: Exhibition Catalogues 1841-1845 (6 items) | 107 |
K: Scrapbooks (1822) 1844-1864 (4 vols./c1600pp) | 108 |
L: Correspondence c1818 – 1860 (144 items/series) | 190 |
Outgoing Correspondence (c350pp) | 190 |
Incoming Correspondence: A - B | 191 |
Incoming Correspondence: C - H | 197 |
Incoming Correspondence: K - M | 207 |
Incoming Correspondence: N - T | 217 |
Incoming Correspondence: U - W | 227 |
Incoming Correspondence: From Unidentified Persons | 236 |
Postal Envelopes | 237 |
M: MS. volume of weather observations by William Cunningham, 1845-1848 (21pp) | 237 |
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