Correspondence from Bryan and Elizabeth Fagan to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Viscount Fitzwilliam concerning mostly matters relating to the estate, some social and political gossip, with family news, includes:

1: 'A Rentall of the Estate Settled upon Ld Carbry's Marriage' (Counties Limerick, Tipperary, Cork, Kerry), no date, c.1732

14: Letter from Bryan Fagan relating, to among other things, the inoculation of the Fitzwilliam children, 15 March 1757

27: Letter from Bryan Fagan relating to the dealing with Mathew daughters and the building work to Mount Merrion, 30 October 1759

28i: Letter from Bryan Fagan relating to dealing with Mr Monck and dealing with Miss Mathew, 14 February 1760.

28ii: Letter from William Bull to [Bryan Fagan] relating to Fitzwilliam's Bill against Miss Mathew, and Answers, 7 February 1760

28iii: Fitzwilliam versus the Misses Mathew, Affidavit of Margaret Mathew, 4 February 1760.

29: Letter from Bryan Fagan relating to dealing with Misses Mathew, 18 March 1760

33: Letter from Bryan Fagan relating to difficulties with Lady Arbella Denny and other matters, 18 September 1760

35: Letter from Bryan Fagan relating to dealings with Lady Arbella Denny and other matters, 25 October 1760

38: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan, relating to the death of Fagan, 19 March 1761

39: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Mathew and Gerard Bills against the recipient; assistance from an ex employee of Lord Shelburne; recipient's need for a Companion at Mount Merrion, 19 August 1762

40: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the Bill of John Gerard, 21 August 1762

41: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to dealings with Gerard and Palmer, 9 September 176[2]

42i: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Gerard Bill; need of Lady Arbella Denny for a sea wall; writer's debts from [Richard] Mathew, 25 September 1762

42ii: William Bull to [Elizabeth Fagan] relating to Bill of Gerard; Mrs Fagan's demand on Mathew, 9 September 1762

43: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the recipients' proposal for an assistant to her, 19 October 1762

44: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to her probable unsuccessful action against Mathew - risk of possible Discovery, 20 November 1762

45: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan seeking advice on a proposed marriage for her daughter

46: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to a proposal to build Tide Mills near Ringsend, she advises against it, 25 January 1763

47: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the wreck at Old Merrion - the Rights of Lord of the Manor; Lord Mayo and Sheriff's removing cargo, 17 March 1763

48: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to rights of wreckage - Fitzwilliam is Lord of the Manor, Vice Admiral for the Province of Leinster; some goods plundered by the people of Ringsend; the last such wreck was in 1739, 7 April 1763

49: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to severe weather and floods; possible sale of ground in Merrion Street, 20 October 1763

50: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to her daughter having Small Pox and other issues relating to Fitzwilliam property, 26 November 1763

51: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to available ground in Merrions Street, 17 January 1764

52: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan, the House of Commons Bill is postponed, she discusses agreements relating to Merrion Street and the need for bricks for building, 4 February 1764

54: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the need for a priest's house at Booterstown; proposal to lay down oysters at the Strand near the South Wall, 15 September 1764

55: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the poor prices for hay, 13 October 1764

56: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to continuing development of Merrion Square, and the need to continue brick making; plans for the avenue opened to Mountmerrion, 10 January 1765

57: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the cessation of brickmaking; plan to make bricks at Owenstown; slow development of Merrion Square South, 10 January 1765

58: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to developments in Merrion Square and Street, 5 February 1765

59: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to brickmaking, 26 February 1765

60: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building, 21 March 1765

61: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the need for ground in Merrion Square for Lords Belvedere and Bellfield, 4 April 1765

62: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to brickmaking and other issues, 16 April 1765

63: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to an agreement for Lord Belvedere to build at Merrion Square, 18 April 1765

64: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building issues, 23 May 1765

65: Letter from John Cantwell to Fitzwilliam relating to the death of Mrs Fagan's daughters, among other issues, 8 August 1765

66: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to her daughter being (educated?) at Mountargis, 18 September 1765

67: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to registration of documents, 9 November 1765

68: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to a possible lease to Sir John Mead of part of Merrion Square South to build on, 7 January 1766

69: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to brickmaking, 18 January 1766

70: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Fitzwilliam's intended visit to Merrion, 1 March 1766

71i: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Merrion Square leases and other building issues, 24 May 1766

71ii: Lady Arbella Denny to Mrs Fagan relating to the need to acquire Tracy's Field near Peafield, 23 April 1766

72: Mrs Fagan to Lady Fitzwilliam relating to plans for a new street - Nevill Street - to go from Donnybrook Road to Ballsbridge Road, 2 October 1766

73: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to a building lease at Merrion Street, 23 October 1766

74: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to a new road from Donnybrook to Ballsbridge and other issues, 8 November 1766

75: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the death of Fitzwilliam's attorney (Bull) 'occasioned, as I hear by the drawing of one of his Teeth', 15 November 1766

76: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to a building lease at Merrion Square, 6 December 1766

77: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to a possible successor to the late attorney (Arthur Crafton), 10 January 1767

78: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to bad weather at Ringsend and Irishtown the damage caused; building at Merrion Street, 14 February 1767

81: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Mountmerrion, a description of present improvements, 28 March 1767

82: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the cause of the Right Honourable Lord Fitzwilliam with Councillor Wolfe's opinion relating to Merrion Square and Merrion Street - case against John Connell, timber merchant - lease dated 27 August 1752, 13 April 1767

83: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to contrary legal opinion received; her daughter is to take the veil in Drogheda, 21 April 1767

85: Draft lease for building at Donnybrook Road, 5 December 1767

86: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to a proposal to let Mountmerrion to a family `as two of her children were ill of the hooping Cough', 30 April 1768

87: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building leases at Ballsbridge and Donnybrook Road, 4 June 1768

88: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan: 'There is a good deal of talk about the great things the Commissrs intend to do at Rings End, but see no preparations for it'. The Commissioners hope to build offices on Fitzwilliam's land; `Your Pictures are all safe at Mountmerrion, the three Young Gentlemen playing with their Tops I admire the most of any thing of the kind I ever saw', 2 July 1768

89: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Fitzwilliam's selling of his house in St James's, 25 August 1768

90: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan, relating to building leases; tenants to sue Mrs Connell relating to Merrion Square, 8 October 1768

93: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building work, 22 August 1769

94: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the visit of her son to 'the great City of London' and Richmond; her lottery ticket; building proposals for (Ringsend), 23 September, 1769

96: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to miscellaneous estate and building issues, 21 October 1769

97: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building issues and a lottery ticket, 8 November 1769

98: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building issues, 25 January 1770

99: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Vallancey lease at the (Mount Merrion) Avenue, 3 February 1770

100: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to death of (clerk) due to suffocation, 10 February 1770

102: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Fitzwilliam's recipe for Cowslip and Cleary wine; her property in England, she will probably sell, `The Brewing business for some years past has turned out very Indifferent, on Accot of the Dearness of Grain and Hops', 24 March 1770

103: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building issues, 3 April 1770

104: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to Merrion Square, 28 April 1770

106: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building issues and scarcity of coin, 10 May 1770

109: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the distressed state of banks in Dublin and the proposed new road from Beggars Bush to the Ringsend Bridge, 6 December 1770

115: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to building costs, 1771

117: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to new staff at Mount Merrion, no date [1771]

118: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the state of repair of Old Merrion; should £100 be spent on planting potatoes for the poor, 30 [January 1771]

119: Letter from Elizabeth Fagan relating to the bad weather, 6 November [1760?]

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