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Barry Brown collection

F.1 Correspondence (mostly from the Huntingdon Library) regarding book purchases, 1958-1964.
F.2 Correspondence regarding the sale and purchase of books, 1952-1966.
F.3 Correspondence regarding Naas Prison improvements, 1948-1952.
F.4 Correspondence on business, financial and other matters, 1940s-1960s.
F.5 Book auction catalogues, 1960s.
F.6 Book auction catalogues, 1960s.
F.7 Notebook containing lists of books in Barry Brown's collection (includes mention of McMaster's Book of Hours ms.), ca. 1951.
F.8 Notebook containing lists of 18th. century books and pamphlets [undated].
F.9 Notebook containing notes, taken from various sources, on law and constitution, ca. 1905.

F.10 Cancelled cheques and receipts, 1960s.
F.11 Cheque book, with half the cheques unused, 1960s.
F.12 Photographs: 4 of cricket teams and 1 of unidentified woman.
F.13 1939 Christmas menu of Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, with signatures. Also another menu, from S.S. Hesperus, with signatures.
F.14 Notebook containing pasted in cigarette cards, undated
F.15 1834 printed business advertisement, with handwritten addition.
F.16 Folding scrap book, with cut out scenes and figures pasted in.
F.17 Leather bound book containing only diamond patterned pages.
F.18 Cuttings book containing mostly chess columns clipped from Irish newspaper, 1920s.
F.19 Incomplete manuscripts and letters, some eighteenth century, possibly collected by Brown.

Box 2

Album, brown, belonging to Dr. W.E. Steele, a medical doctor, of Leinster House, Dublin, Ireland. The album contains correspondence addressed to Dr. Steele as well as some autographs collected by Steele, including that of Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). The date range of the items is 1855-1916 with the majority of the items dating from the 1800s. The Brown library bookplate has been pasted in the album.

Album, black leather, containing various letters and news clippings, [1788]-1936, collected by an unknown collector, possibly Brown. Several of the letters were written by the 4th and 5th Earls of Guilford. There are also letters from several authors including Alfred Austin (1835-1913), poet laureate, E.F. Benson (1867-1940), and Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) . The album has been annotated in a hand which is not Brown's. The Brown library bookplate has been pasted in the album.

Album, black, containing various letters, 1763-1906, collected by an unnown collector, possibly Brown. An index has been provided to the letters in the same hand as the previous album. The index has been photocopied and placed in the finding aid binder. In addition to the files and albums listed above there are 19 binders containing photocopied title pages of books in Barry Brown's collection, together with an annotation regarding their shelf location.

Box 3
A-Can

Box 4
Cap-Gw

Box 5
H-Py

Box 6
Q-War

Box 7
Was-Zw Title Entries A-L

Box 8
Title Entries M-Z

Notebooks, numbered 2-21 (part of the bound numbered manuscript collection); they are located with those manuscripts.

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Last Reviewed: September 12, 2013
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