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Papers relating to the Ormathwaite estate as a whole, or to indeterminable constituent estates, consisting of drafts and copies of deeds, and memorandums, notes, accounts and receipts. Many of the loose notes are undated, and have been included in the bundle for the most recent year mentioned in the text. Papers relating solely to individual estates will be found with the papers of those estates.

Vols containing exercises in algebra [1789/90 x early 19c] (Fe 1/1-2); exercises in practical geometry and mensuration [late 18 x early 19c] (Fe 1/3); exercises in arithmetic [late 18 x early 19c] (Fe 1/4); a vol. entitled 'Mathematical Tracts' comprising 'On the Theory of the Tides' and including copy letters from Margaret Walsh to the Rev. David Davies on the subject, together with replies; 'Precession of the Equinox' and 'Principles of Dialling', 1799-1801 (Fe 1/5), a vol. containing notes and extracts from Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, James Cook's Voyages, Joseph Townsend's A Journey Through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787 and William Mitford's History of Greece, 1804-8 (Fe 1/6), and copy, probably belonging to her, of Henry Pemberton, A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy (London, 1728) [cf. introductory note to Fe 3/1-8) (Fe 1/7).

Vol. of papers relating to building improvements undertaken by the General Land Drainage & Improvement Co., including a statement of expenditure and total costs of improvements, correspondence and tables of repayments [cf. Ab 11 above].

Vol. of miscellaneous poems and sketches including lines written, apparently, by Warren Hastings. The vol., which now carries the bookplate of Lady Clementine Walsh originally belonged to Emily Theophilia Metcalfe. The Metcalfes were friends of Sir John Benn Walsh and Margaret his wife - see FC 1/6 f. 1. Albums of Clementine Walsh, 1888-1907, containing signatures and photographs of country house parties, shooting parties, etc. [Transferred to Dept. of Pictures and Maps: Ref Pz 3189-98 and see that Department's list for more details].

Vol. of letters to Elizabeth Walsh from her mother, Margaret, relating almost entirely to personal and domestic matters (health, proposed visits, future arrangements, etc.) and including letters written from Calais, Boulogne, Paris and elsewhere in France, 1826-9 (ff. 181-4, 186-225) and references to the 'oppressive and distresful' situation of Irish peasants and to 'frightful combinations' there, 1821 (ff. 33v-4). The vol. also contains three letters to Elizabeth Walsh from her father Sir John Benn Walsh, 1803, 1824 (ff. 11, 14, 17).

Vol. of draft and untitled essays by Sir John Walsh comprising: Liberalism and Revolution (ff. 1-23); a defence of the aristocracy (ff. 24-52); Sir Robert Peel, 1834-46 (ff. 53-90); The French Revolution (ff. 92-151) and Revolutions in Europe 1848, especially in France (ff. 152-222). Parts of the last two essays subsequently appeared in Fg 4/5 above.

Vol. containing prayers, expositions on the Scriptures, notes from biblical commentaries, etc., compiled by Mrs Octavius Walsh. A note at the beginning of the vol. states that she died of smallpox in 1706, aged 29, and is buried in the cathedral church of Worcester.

Vol. containing letters from Margaret Walsh to her friends Mrs Kitchin and Mrs Leiden written whilst on a tour of the continent shortly after her marriage. The letters give a detailed account of the tour in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy and contain references to the forthcoming trial of Warren Hastings at which her husband, John Benn Walsh, expected to be called as a witness (ff. 9v 12v). Written on the front cover is 'Letters & Journals. N.B. These letters were in Mrs Kitchin's Secretary when I [Margaret Walsh] visited her at Bath in consequence of her severe illness'. The letters were subsequently stitched together and bound.

Vol. bound in imitation papier maché with clasp probably intended as a private dairy belonging to Lady Geraldine Somerset [Arthur John Walsh's sister-in-law]. The vol., however, contains a musical score of a song (with words and piano accompaniment) in the hand of the composer Paolo Tosti, together with his signature, 1882; and letters to her from the following: Arthur Henry Walsh, 1886 (Christmas greeting and family news); Princess Beatrice, 1888 (invitation to Tosti); Queen Sophie of the Netherlands, 1876 (health of Queen Victoria); Prince Albert Edward from Hamburg, 1883 (health of Lady Waterford and the Duke of Cumberland); Queen Louise of Denmark, 1874 (health of her aunt); Philippe, comte de Paris, 1889 (invitation to his silver wedding celebrations); Emperess Frederick [Victoria Adeilade Mary Louisa] from San Remo, 1887 (ill-health of her husband) and George, duke of Cambridge, 1876, 1884, 1892 (his son's typhoid fever and social news).

Visits to co. Rad. 2-9 Oct., 17 Oct. - 15 Dec. 1866 (pp. 66-70, 72-113) including references to a proposal to close down Presteigne gaol; a visit to Shrewsbury gaol, 1 Nov. 1866 (pp. 78-9) and a full account of cases of arson on his farm at Llanddewi, 15 Nov. 1866 (pp. 91-100) [cf. Fg 1/29]; discussions about his peerage and co. Rad. and Leominster politics, 3 Jan., 6 Apr. 1867 (pp. 123-6, 187); political news, 21 Jan. 1867 (p. 139); meetings of Conservative M.P.s in Downing Street, 25 Feb., 15 Mar. 1867 (pp. 166, 173-4); debates, mainly about the Reform Bill, 25 Feb. - 28 June 1867 (pp. 165-94 passim, 239-56 passim); meeting of county members to discuss the county franchise proposed in the Reform Bill, 26-7 May (pp. 217-18) and a visit to Paris, 10-17 June (pp. 228-39).

Visit to Preston Grange and Edinburgh, 23 Dec. 1863 - 18 Jan. 1864 (pp. 44-65); debates in the House, 4 Feb. - 19 July (pp. 77, 80, 93-6, 101-2, 115, 119, 131, 136, 175-6, 184); the monument to Sir George Cornewall Lewis, 11, 16, 18 Feb. 1864 (pp. 79, 82-3); his relationship with Disraeli, 27 Feb. 1864 (pp. 82-3); his views on the 'new' Biblical criticism, 5 May, 1864 (pp. 91-4); a summary of his speeches this present session, 18 Mar. 1864 (pp. 101-2); visit to his Cumberland estate and the Moor Row mine, 17-19 May (pp. 139-45); a meeting of the Conservatives at Lord Salisbury's and his speech there, 28 June 1864 (pp. 164-7); sailing trip to Cherbourg and from thence to Monkston, Ireland, via Devonport and Falmouth, 23 July - 13 Aug. (pp. 185-200) and a cruise from Kingston, Ireland, to Scotland followed by a round of visits in the same including Netherley House, Fannick, Callendar House, 30 Aug. - 13 Oct. (pp. 221-55).

Visit to Paris, 12 Dec. 1841-23 Jan. 1842 (pp. 4-25); no entries from 27 Jan. - 11 Aug. 1842; account of a sailing excursion from Liverpool to Scotland, 14 Aug. - 21 Sept. 1842 (pp. 85-107); first meeting of the co. Rad. Agricultural Association and including his account of how he was elected lord lieutenant of the county in preference to Frankland Lewis and James Price and his comments on rent reductions due to Peel's tariff and on the continuing agricultural backwardness of the county (pp. 114-71); his work on moving a Bill to amend Hobhouse's Vestry Act, 21 Feb. - 28 Mar. 1843 (pp. 182-230 passim); brief accounts of parliamentary debates, 22-5 Feb. 1842 (pp. 135, 139-40) and 12 Feb. - 4 June 1843 (pp. 180-216 passim), including debates on the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Canada Corn Bill; the Sudbury Disenfranchisement Bill which included powers to examine previous elections [later amended to examine only the last election - see Fg 1/14, p. 37], 17-19 Mar. 12, 23 June 1843 (pp. 199-200, 247-8, 250-1); attending a committee on the Cardigan Markets Bill, 21 Mar. 1843 (p. 202); meeting of all the Tory M.P.s at Downing Street re the Canada Corn Bill, 19 May 1843 (pp. 243-6) and a holiday at Cowes and a sailing trip to Holland 18-31 July 1843 (pp. 262-73).

Visit to co. Rad. and discussions about the proposed County Roads Board, 1-7 Jan. 1845 (pp. 1-4); account of a performance by a hypnotist, 13 Feb. 1845 (pp. 17-18); brief accounts of debates in the House and of political meetings, 27 Feb. - 23 Apr. 1846 (pp. 21-150 passim) and 4 Feb. - 20 May 1847 (pp. 218-69 passim) including his own speeches on the Maynooth grant, 22-3 Jan. 1846 (p. 108), the Railway (Ireland) Bill, 16 Feb. 1847 (pp. 222-3), and on the Cracow Resolutions which is prefaced by caustic remarks on Bentnick and Disraeli's leadership of the Protectionists, 16 Mar. 1847 (pp. 238-41); illness and death of his father in law Lord Stamford and a character sketch of him, 24 Apr. - 7 May 1845 (pp. 36-46); a visit to Havre and Rouen, 25-31 Aug. 1845 (pp. 49-53); visit to co. Rad. to establish the Hereford to Aberystwyth Railway, 22 Sept. - 9 Dec. 1845 (pp. 58-89) and meetings in London relating to the same, 20 Dec. 1843, 20 Feb. 1846 (pp.93, 115); political news relating to the repeal of the Corn Laws, 18-20 Dec. 1845, 4 Jan. 1846 (pp. 92-3, 101); copy of a letter from him to Peel refusing to support the repeal and copy of Peel's reply, 28, 30 Jan. 1846 (pp. 109-12) and meetings of the Protectionists, 22 Feb., 24 Apr. 1846 (pp. 116-18, 151). The diary continues in narrative from 24 Mar. - 3 Apr. 1846 and is concerned mainly with the domestic problems of his wife's niece Minnie Grey. The period 9 May to Nov. 1846 is covered by an incomplete narrative written in Nov. and is arranged thematically and includes brief details of Peel's downfall and a meeting of the Protectionists (pp. 157-8). There are no entries for Nov. and Dec. 1846 and the diary recommences with daily entries from 1 Jan. 1847: these include a dispute about the appointment of a new chairman of the co. Rad. quarter sessions, 3-8 Jan. 1847 (pp. 204-8) which rumbled on into Feb. and Mar. (pp. 217-18, 220-1, 255); accounts of new and regular meetings of the Protectionists at Lord Stanley's to co-ordinate Parliamentary tactics, 19 Feb., 6, 9 Mar., 17 Apr., 8 May, 1847 (pp. 224-5, 235-6, 257, 262); anecdote of Lord Melbourne about the results of the Catholic Emancipation Act, 25 Feb. 1847 (p. 228); reference to Peel changing his whole associations after leaving office, 5 Mar. 1847 (pp. 234-5) and the illness of his nephew George Digby, 17-26 May 1847 (pp. 261-72).