| Description | Typescript of National Library Manuscript edited by Brian Fitzgerald for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 'Correspondence of Emily, Duchess of Leinster,' 1731-1814, volume 5, 'edited ready for press'.
Box 1 includes solicitors' bills of William Ogilvie 1807-1818 and typescript copies letters of miscellaneous correspondents to Emily, Duchess of Leinster, to William Ogilvie and others, 1756- 1826 with a number undated, for example:
Letter to the Duchess of Leinster from William Ogilvie, 3 May 1786, 22 November 1784
Letter from Lord Robert Fitzgerald, to the Duchess of Leinster, 11 April 1786
Letter from Lady Sophia Fitzgerald to Duchess of Leinster, 11 January 1794
Letters from Lady Charlotte Fitzgerald to Duchess of Leinster, 18 May 1773, 24 January 1779
Letter from Lady Bellamont to William Ogilvie, 2 December 1790
Letter of the 2nd Duke of Leinster to his mother, 7 March [1774].
Box 2 contains a typescript of 'Light to the Blind', part 1 pages 1-978 with a hand-written letter from Eileen Richardson to Lady Fingall, 18 March 1929, on the typing of the manuscript.
Box 3 contains:
Typescript copies of 59 letters of the Duchess of Leinster to William Ogilvie, 1777-1792 on personal issues, offering family news and expressing her sadness at his absence, for example:
June 5, 1792, `No letter this morning which is always a little disappointment but no fault of yours `that I am sure of, you seem indeed to have no thought but that of obliging me and making me happy, it appears plainly in all your dear letters; how does it happen that after 18 years marriage 'notre commerce soit si vif? but so it is and I think we never loved one another more tenderly than at this moment!'
73 letters of Lady Kildare to the Duchess of Leinster 1773 -1779, a number undated with 1 undated letter to William Ogilvie and 5 letters to Charlotte Fitzgerald, 1 October 1774, and 4 undated.
Box 4 contains:
Typescript copies of letters from Lord Henry Fitzgerald, mostly to the Duchess of Leinster, 3 October 1772-29 August 1806 with a number undated
Letter from Lady Charlotte Fitzgerald, wife of Lord Henry, to Duchess of Leinster, 1 January 1794
Letters from Aemilia, Duchess of Leinster to Emily, Duchess of Leinster, 24 June [1778]
Letters from William 2nd Duke of Leinster to Emily, Duchess of Leinster, 1778-1794
Letters from William, 2nd Duke of Leinster to Lady Charlotte Fitzgerald, 2 October 1774, 30 October [1774] with a number of letters to William Ogilvie
Letters of Lord Robert Fitzgerald to, among others, the Duchess of Leinster, 16 May 1779-15 February 1806
Letters of Lord Charles Fitzgerald to Lady Louisa Conolly, undated, to Duchess of Leinster, 5 July [1762]-20 November 1787.
The material in box 4 is 'unedited copy'.
Box 5 contains typescript copies of letters from William Ogilvie to Duchess of Leinster, 1770-1783, declared ready for press.
Box 6 contains typescript copies of letters from:
William Ogilvie to Duchess of Leinster, 1786-1788, a number, 1792, 1794
Mimi Ogilvie to her sister, Cecilia, [2 February 1788]
Duchess of Leinster to William Ogilvie, 11 June 1792-30 July 1792
Duchess of Leinster to Lady Lucy Fitzgerald, 11 October [1794], giving family news, the second part of this letter is in Cecilia Ogilvie's handwriting advising on `engaging your heart upon an `uncertainty'', notably her relationship with Mr Wodehouse and Lady Wodehouse's coldness to her. Cecilia tells Lucy to `converse me on paper as you would over a bit of fire undressing at night -'.
These letters are all described as 'top copy'.
Box 6 also includes letters of Duchess of Leinster, 1 July [1777], 5 July 1777, 9 July 1777, together with solicitors' bills of William Ogilvie, all marked `not to be published'.
Box 6 also includes miscellaneous letters, mostly to the Duchess of Leinster from various family members, 1756-1788, marked 'top copy', also letters from Lady Kildare to Emily Duchess of Leinster, 15 July 1772 - 9 December 1779, 'top copy'.
Box 7 contains a typescript copy of 'Light to the Blind'
Box 8 contains typescript copies of letters of William Ogilvie to Duchess of Leinster, 5 August 1771 -1794, many undated. These appear to be copies of copies.
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