75. Midleton (George Brodrick, viscount Midleton, 1730-65) Letter Book, manuscript in several hands (mostly 1 hand), 155pp. excluding blanks, lower covers with dampstaining, slightly browned, original wrappers, creased and with tears, manuscript title on upper cover: "Copies of Lord Midleton's Letters...", spine torn with loss, folio, 20th January 1759 - 2nd February 1762.
est. £200 – £300
"To Mr Weekes Charles Street Nov: 17 1759. Sir Lord Midleton desires me to acquaint you that he has spoke to a merchant in the City on the subject of establishing some manufacture at Midleton [Ireland], who flatters him with the hopes of being able to get a number of Moravians to settle there & undertake the making of a sort of coarse Linnen never yet made in Ireland, provided they are properly arranged. Alb[inia] Midleton [Midleton's wife]."
Business and estate orrespondence of an Irish nobleman, from a family that had been settled in Surrey for several generations. Much of the correspondence is from his estate at Peper Harrow, near Godalming but also includes other addresses in Charles Street, London and Tunbridge Wells. The correspondence deals with Midleton's estates at Ballymartin, "the valuation of Killeagh"; "the vacancy of the Deanery of Tuam"; "the house at Midleton"; Vice-Admiral Thomas Brodrick ( d. 1769); "the sale of the Cahirduggan [Chaerduggan] Estate"; "the Banqueting House in the garden at Ballyanan" etc.