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Letters to Sir John Walsh including a letter from F. H. Cornewall, Ludlow, 1831 (Fg 3/1) about a reform meeting held at Worcester 'got up chiefly by the Roman Catholics' and containing references to the cholera and to a speech by O'Connell and a letter from Robert Palmer concerning problems in finding [Conservative] candidates for the forthcoming elections for Berkshire, 1834 (Fg 3/2), and draft letters from Sir John Walsh to Lady Charlotte Charteris, 1824 (Fg 3/5) [cf. Fg 1/3-4 and G 21] and to Sir Robert Bromley, 1829 (Fg 3/6).

Diaries of Arthur John Walsh mainly family and domestic, military duties, London season, shooting parties and country house parties [cf. Fh 5/1-2 and the photographic albums in the Dept. of Pictures and Maps, Pz 3189-98], meetings of co. Rad. quarter sessions and, from 1889, the county council and the deteriorating state of the family finances. There are no diaries for 1897-9 and 1903-6. The diaries include visits to France, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, 10 Oct. 1849 - 1 Apr. 1850 (Fh 1/1); his tour of duty in Varna [Bulgaria], 5 Apr. - 22 Sept. 1854 (Fh 1/3); his assessment of Prince Albert, 14 Dec. 1861 (Fh 1/6); election campaign in Leominster, Herefordshire, 19 Mar. - 4 Apr., 11-13 July, 1865 (Fh 1/8); brief accounts of parliamentary debates, his committee work in the House and meetings of Conservative M.P.s, 1866-80 (Fh 1/9-15 passim); election canvasses in co. Rad., 27 Mar. - 29 Apr. 1868 (Fh 1/10) and 16 May 1873 - 11 May 1874 (Fh 1/12); brief account of a riot in London, 8 Feb. 1886 (Fh 1/18) and a visit to Tangier and Gibraltar, 27 Feb. - 7 Mar. 1886 (Fh 1/18).

Mainly about the purchase of Crown manorial rights and enclosures in co. Rad., but including also a letter to Disraeli seeking appointment as lord lieutenant of co. Rad., 4 Apr. 1875 (ff. 2v-3) and letters relating to the appointments of magistrates, 16 June 1875 - 27 Oct. 1880 (ff. 15v-16, 20v-2, 28-34 passim, 42v, 49-50, 112-13v, 115v-16); Wye fishery board, 17 Jan. - 15 Feb. 1876 (ff. 43-7); co. Rad. politics, 20 June 1876 (ff. 93-6) and 7 Mar., 15 Aug., 15 Sept. 1880 (ff. 109-18 passim); visit of the Prince of Wales to co. Rad., 1, 11 Dec. 1878 (ff. 100-1) and poachers, 16 Jan. 1879 (ff. 104-5).

Mainly estate and personal affairs and including letters relating to the appointments of magistrates, 9 Oct. 1880, 10 May 1881, 25 Oct. 1884 (ff. 1-2, 23-4, 150v-1) and co. Rad. politics, 18 May, 26 Sept. 1884 (ff. 45v-6, 48v-51).

Correspondence. The family correspondence has been divided into two groups: bound and unbound letters. With the exception of G 1 below all the bound family letters (G 2-51) were arranged and stitched together by Sir John Walsh in 1828 and 1837 and afterwards placed in uniform box files: these were labelled 'Family Letters & Papers' together with the appropriate number. The correspondence (roughly 2,500 letters) begins after Sir John Walsh's departure to Eton in 1811 and ends with his mother's death in 1836. The first extant box file is numbered 'Vol. VII'; presumably the first six box files contained (at least) the correspondence between Sir John Walsh's parents between 1786 and 1811 since very few such letters have survived in this archive or in the archive now housed at the India Office Library. The unbound family correspondence comprises a small number of letters missed by Sir John Benn Walsh (many in fact were tucked away in his mother's diaries) and a small remnant of what was once a large body of post-1836 family letters (see Introduction).

Letters from John Benn Walsh to his wife Margaret Walsh (ff. 1-14) including a reference to the Prince [Regent], 24 Jan. 1812 (f. 1v-v); a letter from Lord Braybrooke to John Benn Walsh asking him to propose his (Lord Braybrooke)'s son at the nomination of M.P. for Berkshire, 5 Oct. 1812 (ff. 15-16); letters from Elizabeth Walsh to her brother and to her mother Margaret Walsh (ff. 17-101) and letters from Mrs Cheyney to John Benn Walsh and Margaret Walsh relating to the Napoleonic Wars and including also a reference to the Luddites, 14 Aug. - 2 Nov. 1812 (ff. 102-9).

Letters from Elizabeth Digby to Margaret Walsh (ff. 1-101) giving lengthy accounts of her tour from Dagnam to Birmingham, Liverpool, Lancaster, the Lake District, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durham and York.

Correspondence between Lady Jane Walsh and Margaret Walsh (ff. 1-15) including descriptions of her travels in France; letters from Lady Jane Walsh to her husband (ff. 16-40); letters from George Digby and Elizabeth Digby to Margaret Walsh (ff. 41, 66); letters from George Digby and Elizabeth Digby to John Walsh (ff. 67-86) and miscellaneous letters to Margaret Walsh and John Walsh (ff. 87-109).

Correspondence between John Walsh and Margaret Walsh (ff. 1-128) including letters from John Walsh whilst on holiday in the Isle of Wight (ff. 32-53) and whilst visiting his estate in Ireland. As well as family matters, including the health of Elizabeth Digby following her husband's death and the purchase of a town house in London, the correspondence contains criticisms by Margaret Walsh of John Walsh's pamphlet on the poor laws (ff. 98-100 passim) [cf. Fg 1/5].

Correspondence between John Walsh and Margaret Walsh (1-172 ff.) with a lengthy introduction by John Walsh containing inter alia an account of his studies in Oxford. The correspondence includes references to agricultural distress (ff. 21r-v, 23v), to Wellington and the break up of parties (f. 51r-v), letters relating to the distribution and reviews of John Walsh's pamphlet on the Irish Poor Laws (ff. 13-72); letters concerning the revolution in France, the presence of Charles X in England and the French funds (ff. 72r-v, 115, 121-43 passim, 150, 165r-v, 171-2); election canvass and campaign in Sudbury (ff. 78-106) [cf. Fg 1/5, pp. 68-92]; the revolution in Belgium (ff. 146-54); the Swing riots (ff. 61-2, 64) and lists of seats in the House of Commons under the command of the peerage and the government, the number of open boroughs, etc. (ff. 155-6, 167-70).

Miscellaneous Letters to Margaret Walsh, mainly from close friends and servants (18 ff.) including a letter from D[avid] James relating to the sale of the Boughrood Castle estate (f. 9r-v) and a letter from Charlotte Wynch giving a lengthy account of the Swing riots near Battle, Sussex (ff. 13-16).

Correspondence between Margaret Walsh and John Walsh (136 ff.) including letters relating to John Walsh's pamphlet Popular Opinions on Parliamentary Reform (ff. 2v-3, 5, 13-16, 18); popular agitation for, and parliamentary debates about, the Reform Bill (ff 2v, 11, 31v -136 passim); Sudbury election (ff. 45-7, 79r-v, 82r-v); Dorset election (ff. 93v, 94r-v, 98r-v, 104, 110); Bristol riots (ff. 114v-15, 123) and outbreak of cholera and preventatives against it (ff. 118-19, 122-3, 129, 131, 134).

Letters from Lady Jane Walsh to John Walsh (ff. 1-24), mainly family and social news but including also references to John Walsh's speech in the House (ff. 4v, 6v) and to debates about reform (ff. 9, 14); letters from Elizabeth Digby and her children to John Walsh about her family and including a reference to the Bristol riots (ff. 25r-v); letters from Lord Limerick and [Viscount] Newark to John Walsh (ff. 36-40) about his pamphlet (specified in G 39] and reform, and letters to Margaret Walsh from friends and servants (ff. 41-60) including letters about parliamentary reform (ff. 41r-v, 44) and the forthcoming election in [Berkshire] (f. 41v).

Letters from Lady Jane Walsh to Margaret Walsh about the health of members of the family and a holiday in the Isle of Wight and including references to Lord Althorpe and Sir James Graham there (ff. 15-16) and to the cholera (ff. 4r-v, 8-9); letters from Lady Jane Walsh to John Walsh (ff. 19-64) similar in contents to ff. 1-18, and comprising letters relating to John Walsh's pamphlets (ff. 19-20); the cholera (ff. 27-8, 42); the Duke of Wellington (f. 29) and the Sudbury election (f. 49v); letters from Elizabeth Digby and her children to Margaret Walsh (ff. 65-7, 76-82); two letters from Elizabeth Digby to John Walsh (ff. 68-75) including references to politics (ff. 67, 71-2) and the Berkshire election (f. 70); two letters to John Walsh praising his pamphlets (ff. 84-6) and letters to Margaret Walsh from friends (ff. 87-103).

Correspondence between Margaret Walsh and John Walsh (180 ff.) concerning family affairs (ill-health of Digby Walsh) and social news and including letters relating to co. Rad. election (ff. 1-22), politics and animosity concerning the purchases of Crown manorial rights in the said county (ff. 116-17, 121v-2, 151-3, 164); Berkshire election (ff. 1-2, 7-11); politics, especially Peel's speech at a City dinner about his views on the Conservative party and the Reform Bill [cf. his Tamworth Manifesto] (ff. 29, 33-4, 38, 55, 57, 63, 85-113 passim); O'Connell (f. 54); Walter Wilkins, M.P. for co. Rad. (ff. 64, 152) and the building of a united poor house covering Warfield and adjacent parishes (ff. 129v-44 passim) and an extract from a newspaper relating to an election in Sudbury (ff. 5v-6).