Topics included in this notebook are Captain Erskine at Kilkea; an extract from A discourse presented to the King’s Majesty concerning Ireland by Richard Hudson in 1604; list of engravings of Kilkea Castle, Athy and Woodstock, Kildare and Castledermot; autographs at Carton, including among those the 11th Earl of Kildare, the 12th Earl of Kildare, the 1st Duke of Leinster and his wife Emily, Henry VII, James Duke of Ormonde, the Prince Regent, Queen Charlotte, Queen Victoria and the Duke of Wellington; chimney pieces at Carton; Numbers 6 and 7 Carlton House Terrace, London; Dr. A. Smith on the coins of Edward IV and Henry VII; various acts, such as acts of attainder and acts to pardon; the Talbots of Carton; the uniform of Lord Edward FitzGerald; Coronation of George III; tradesmen’s tokens, Co. Kildare in the collection at Kilkea, 1873; Mrs. Leadbeater’s description of Kilkea Castle, 1817; banshee belonging to the Leinster family; seal of William, Bishop of Kildare; the river Greese; Slievemargy; extract from a letter from the 2nd Duke of Richmond to Lady Caroline Fox; Passion play; the Countess Dowager of Kildare’s gift of a comb case set with pearls to the Princess Mary, 1545; the legacy of Elizabeth FitzGerald, Lady Hill, to her nephew, George, Earl of Kildare; and Juliana de Clare.