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MSS 7781-7931

The Irish papers of Robert Erskine Childers author and politician (1870-1922) and of his wife Mary Alden Childers n6e Osgood. Other parts of the papers have been presented to Tri~lity College Cambridge and to the Imperial War Museum. Those here include the documentation of the Anglo-lrish Treaty (1922) during which Erskine Childers was secretary to the Irish delegation. ~he pspers were presented by his son Robert Alden Chllders in 1977. Outline of the papers of Robert Erskine Childers and Mary Alden Childers n6e 0sgood.

Anglo-lrish Treaty papers

7781/1-8 Conference minutes. /9/1-17 Aides memoires, main conference /lO-28 Sub conferences /29 Notices of meetings /30 Communiques /31 Informal conversations /32 Financial relations committee /33-36 Breaches of the truce /37 Truce terms /38-46 Truce committee minutes or aides memoires /47- 7782/1-i0 Irish official memoranda

7783/1-11 British official memoranda

7784/1-4 Constitutional committee papers /5--21 Defence committee papers /22-4o Finance committee papers /41-64 Economic committee papers /65-1oi Ulster committee papers

7785/1-21 Drafts of the treaty

7786/I -22 Memoranda by the secretariat(mostly by R.E. Childers) 7787/1-15 Memoranda by Alfred O’Rahilly.

7788 Supporting papers /1-22 O~ficial correspondence, p_rinted /3-15 Dominion status /16-24 United States and Cuba /25-26 South Africa /27-33 Egypt /34-35 Switzerland and Belgium /36-40 Norway and Sweden 141-53 Miscellaneous 7789 Further printed supporting papers mostly parliamentary publications.

7790-8 Correspondence 7790/I-89 Letters to the president, June 1921-Jan. 1922.

7791/I-15 Letters from the president, Oct.-Nov.1921.

7792/I -51 Correspondence with Downing St., Oct.-Dec. 1921. 7793/I-20 Correspondence with D. 0’Hegarty, secretariat of D~il Eireann, 0ct.-Dec.1921. i

7794/I-!2 Correspondence with minister for finance, Oct.-Nov. 1921. 7795/I-12 Economic relations com~mittee papers, Oct.-Nov.1921. 7796/I -23 Art 0’Brien correspondence, 0ct.-Dec.1921.

7797/I-21 Art 0’Brien’s correspondence about prison visits, Nov.-Dec.1921. 7798/I-28 Accounts, Aug.-Nov.1921.

Rough minutes of Treaty meetings kept by R.E.Childers. 7799 Conference i,11,13,14 Oct. 1921(ffi + 4~)

7800 Conference ii, 17, 21, 24 Oct. 1921(ffi+47)

7801 Co~nzttees i 12,13 0ct., 1,4 Nov. "J921 (ffi+47) 7802 Committees ii,4,10 Nov.1921 (ffi+28)

78O3 Defence committee kept by D. 0’Hegarty, 17,18 Oct. 1921 (ffii + 35)

Rough minutes of D~il meetings kept by R.E. Childers 7804 i,14,15,16,17 Dec. 1921 (ffi + 48) 7805 ii,19,20,21, Dec.1921 (ffi +28) 7806 iii, 22 Dec.1921, 3,1~,5,6,7 Jan. 1922(ffii+45 7807 Minutes of president’s committee on policy kept by R.E. Childers, 8 Jan° 1922(ffii+4).

7808/I-344(+9a) Correspondence of R.E. Childers and M.A. Childers for the most part of a public or official nature, 1919-25.

7809-19 Diaries 7809 Personal Diary 0ct.1903-Jan. 1904 130 X 80 (ffi+24) 7810 17-29 Aug.1914 typescript copy (ffT)* 7811 Diary & Gazette 21 Feb.1919-31 Dec.1920. 320 X 205 (ffi + lOl) 78"12 " " " I Jan.-24 Mar. 1921 320 X 205(ffi+44) 7813 " ’ " " 10 May-4 0ct.1921 340 X 210 (ff97) 7814 Personal Diaries ffi-33 27 April-10 May, 8 July-23 Sept.1921. 160 X I00) ff34-46 29 Sept.-2 Nov.1921 ) 190 X 110) ff47-56 3-15 Nov. 1921 ) 190 X 110) ff57-65 16-24 Nov. 1921 ) 19o x 11o)ff115 ff66-91 25 Nov. - 5 Dec. 1921 ) 16o x IO5) ff92-112 6-28 Dec. 1921 ) 16o x 1oo) ff113-115 3 leaves torn from a) diary of Oct. 1921 ) 7815 Diary & Gazette 6 Jan.-12 May 1922 335 X 210 (ff ii + 84) 7816 " " " 13 May-2 July 1922 335 X 205 (ffi + 73) 7817 " " " 28 June-3 Nov. 1922 not bound (ffi + 14) 7818 " ~’ " La-l:er copy of diaries of 8 July- 28 Dec. 1921 and 28 June-3 Nov. 1922(ff97 + typescript of 28 J~e- 3 Nov. 1922). *Note that R.E.Childers’s diaries for the period 1914-18 have been presented to the !mperia]. War Museum by Mr. Robert Chi].ders. 7819 Typescript of a slighter version of the cabinet meeting of 8 Dec. 1921 than that in the little red diary of 6-28 Dec. 1921 (ff.3).

7820 Autobiographical fragment in two exercise books. 200 X 160 (f.19).

7821 Later copy of 7820 with some additions (ff8).

7822 Account of a bicycle ride across , not bound, (ff17).

7823 Address book

7824/I -34 Articles 1901-19

7825/35-59 Articles 1920-32 7825 a+b Presscutting books of R.E. Childers’s _let~e~s to the Da~ems, 1911-20 7826 Riddle of the Sands: twelve exercise books containing chapters I-IX, XII-XV. Chs IX, XII and XV are not complete; chs. X, XI, XVI-XXVIII not present. Differs from printed ed. which is shorter. BP.,Ou~T.~ @Reen~,d.~,tP~i

7828/I -36 Correspondence about the Dulcibella memorial, 1937-49

7829/I -44 R.E. Childers’s trial, death and burial, 1922-4

783o/1-31 Legal papers connected with his trial, 1922.

7831/1-24. D~il ~ireann Fund papers, 1921-2

7852/I -37 Land Bank papers, 1919-26. 7833/I-88 Correspondence etc. of Robert C. Barton, 1903-38.

7834/I-11 Papers of Robert C. Barton, 1920-1975.

7835/I-26 Papers of Mary McSwiney, 1922-4.

7836/1-38 Legion of Frontiersman, 1907-9

7837/I-11 De vonport Liberal Magazine, 1912.

7838/1-~ 57 Dublin Distress Fund,1913-14 /1 Bank book /2-6 Cheque stubs and cashed cheques. /7-8 Receipt books /9-157 Correspondence.

7839/I-36 ’Asgard’, 1905-70,

7840/1 --7 Irish Volunteers, 1914

7841 Mary Spring Rice’s ~og of ’Asgard’~ 1-25 July 1914.

784.2/1-18 R.E. Childers’s Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Service, 1914-18

7843/1-239 M.A. Childers’s charitable work. /1 Private charity and poster, account book, 1919-24. /2 Bank book, 1919-24. /3-7 Cheque books and stubs 1919-24. /8 Cashed cheques 1919-24. /9-73 Chelsea War Refugees Fund 1914-20. /74.-86 M.B.E. and La madaille de la Reine Elizabeth, 1917-18. /87-228 Lawrence Minot Fund, 1919-28. /229-23/-I- United Irishwoman Food Depot Committee, 1921 784-3/235-7 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1920. /238 Irish Book-case Fund, 1922. /2.59 Women’s Liberal Associations, 1913.

7844-5 Republican Press Fund 7844/1-8 Agenda, June-Sept. 1924. /9 Minute book, May 1924-Nov. 1925. /lO General disbursements, 1924-5. /11 Petty cash disbursements, 1924-5. /1.2 Limerick constituency cash account and subscription book, 1923-4 /13/I-81 Bank notes, 1924-5 /14-15 Cash receipt books (n.d.)

7845/I -386 General correspendence and accounts,1923-39

7846 :Petty cash account of the ’second Dsz!’,~° 1925-6.

7847-51/I -I _~41 General correspondence of R.E. Childers and M.A. Childers arranged alphabetically by correspondent (separate list in preparation)

7847 A-C. 7848 D-K 7849 L-M 7850 N-P 7851 R-Z

7852-5/1 -I 301 Letters from R.E. Childers to M.A. Childers

7852 19015-14 7853 1915-16 7854 !917-18 7855 1.919-22

7856-60/I-1130 Letters from M.A. Childers to R.E. Childers. 7856 1903-14 7857 1915 7858 1916 7859 1917-18 7860 1919-22

7861/I-46 R.E. Childers’s letters to relatives arranged chronologically 1884-1922. 7861 a Typescript of letters from R.E. Childers to his sister, Dulcibella with a few to Flora Priestley ~.1882-1914. 7862/I-145 M.A. Childers’s letters to relatives arranged chronologically, 1903-51.

7863/I -219 Letters 1o R.E.Childers and M.A. Childers relatives arranged by correspondents and chronologically within each group Correspondence of Henry Caesar Childers, 1883-1922 /43-58 Letters from Sybil Rose Childers, 1903-22. /59-78 Letters from Dulcibella Mary Philpot n~e Childers, 1889-1941. /79-98 Letters from Constamce Isabella Davidson Houston nSe Childers, 1903-22. /100-1 02 Letters from Dulcibella Selcna Childers, 1903-8" /I03-7 Letters from Florence Isabella Childers, 1903-22. /108-117 Letters from Augusta Childers nSe Le Poer Trench, widow of W.H. Priestley, 1903-12. /118-44 Letters from Flora Priestley, 1897-1934. /I 45-91 Correspondence of Agnes Alexandra Barton n$e Childers, 1903-17. /192-3 Letters from Daisy Barton, 1908,1922. /194-203 Letters from Dulcibella Barton, 1908-24 /204-I 9 Others.

7864/1 --55 Letters from Mary Alden Osgood afterwards Childers 1o her parents from Chateau de Diendonne, Borne].(0ise) (?her finishing school), 1894-6 but generally undated, with one(no.55) from Kyoto in 1897. 7865/I-77 Letters from Dr. Hamilton and Margaret C. Osgood from Europe to their daughters, 1897-8.

7866/I -50 +23a Letters from Dr. Hamilton 0sgood with a few to him, 1870-1906.

7867/I -I 08 Letters from Margaret C. Osgood to Mary Alden Childers and other members of her immediate family, mostly undated.

7868/I -9 Copies or extracts from letters of Margaret C. Osgood, May-Oct. 1920.

7869/1-29+5a Letters to Margaret C. Osgood arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

7870,/I -23 Margaret C. Osgood’s lectures during the war 1914-18 with some miscellanea.

7871/1 -I 6 Correspondence relating %o the third edition of Margaret C. 0sgood’s ~Che citv without walls, 1935-6.

7872 Typesc’ript of part of an anthology of English verse prepared for the press.

7873 Letters from Gretchen (Greta) n6e Osgood and ber husband, Fiske Warren, 1903-42.

7874 Letters to Gretchen Fiske Warren arranged alphabetically by correspondents.

7875 Gretchen Fiske Warren’s account of the death of her father, Dr. Hamilton Osgbod.

7876/1-103 Family business affairs. 7877/.I -33+20a Correspondence of Anne M.H. Childers with "the headmaster of Bengeo, Hertford about R.E.Childers’s health 1881-2; together with his school reports from Bengeo and Haileybury, 1881-9 with some of his bills while at Trinity College Cambridge 1889.

7878/1-29 Papers relating to the publication of Robert Caesar Childers’s Book 1872-81 7879/I-lO R.C. Childers miscellanea 788o/I-14 Papers relating to the Childers Scholarship founded by A.M.H. Childers in memory of her husband, R.C.Childers at Trinity College Kandy, Ceylon, 1880-81. 7881/1-40 Older Childers family correspondence, 1833-83.

7882/1-24 Letters from the mother and first wife of Hugh C. Ch]Iders M.P., mostly undated]

7883/1.-4 Older Childers miscellanea

7884/1-5 Notes about "the Childers and Barton families and their portraits.

7885/1-25 Morris papers, mostly letters to Miss Morris 1805-67.

7886/1-90 Older Barton correspondence, mostly to Capt. Robert J. Barton, A.D.C. to General Sir Hope Grant 1870-80. 7887/1.-21 A collection of envelopes with drawings addressed to Capt. R.J. Barton and H~M. Barton Esq., 186’7-71. 7888/1-75 The Childers family autograph collection, made originally by A.M.H. Childers and given by Agnes Barton to R.E. Childers and M.A. ChJ.lders on their marriage. 7889 Pedigrees.

7890 Photographs

7891 Miscellanea including letter of appointment "~;o clerkship in the House of Commons 1894 and passport for R.E.Childers 1896, poem by C.de M illuminated commemorating R.E.Childer visiting cards etc. 7892 Miscellanea connected with the Honourable Artillery Company principally their return from South Africa in 1900 and their visit to the United States in 1903. 7893 ’We three men", a short play about the death of R.E. Childers in bla~ verse. 7894 Charles Patrick Quinn, Arms for the ¯ Iris~ Vol~nteers, the Howth gun- ru~ning July 1916, a graduating essay ... for the degree of B.A. in the dept. of History, University of Victoria, 1970. 7894a Eileen Magran (?afterwards Mrs. MacCarvill), Life of R.E. Childers, c.1933. 7895 Three chapters of a biography of R.E. Childers. 7896 Military medals of R.E. Childers, including the D.S. Cross. 7897 Decorations of M.A. Childers. 7898 Stone from R.E. Childers’s grave in Beggars Dush Barracks. 7899-790O M.A. Childers’s no%es for her projected biography of R.E. Childers. (2 boxes). E. Chi~ders and M.A. Childers Presscuttings

7901-7931

7901 ’Framework of Home Rule’ 1911-12

7902 Home Rule Bill 1911-14

7903 Howth gun running and the’Asgard’ July 1914

7904 History of the Irish Volunteers 1913-16 by Maurice Moore[published in 1938]

7905 Rising. 1916

7906 Great War service 1914-18

7907 Irish War of Independence 1919-21

7908 National Land Bank 1920

7909 Mountjoy Hunger Strike 1920

7910 Anglo-irish Treaty 1921

7911 Extracts from the Earl of 1924 Birkenhead’s biography of Lord Birkenhead

79i 2 Sir Austin Chamberlain’s 1935-6 memoirs and version of the CurraghMutJny

7913 ’John Chartres - Mystery Man 1935 of the Treaty’ by Henry Mangan

7914. ’Secret History of 1921’ by 1938 William O’Brien 7915 Elections 1921-3

7916 Provisional government 1922

7917 Irish civil war 1922-3

7918 House search and arrest of Mar.1920, E. Childers May 1921

791 9 Trial and execution of Nov. 1922. E. Childers

7920 Articles on E.Childers 1923-70

7921 Reinterment of execu1~ed !924 Republicans

7922 E. Childers personal 1902-12

7923 ’Riddle of the Sands’ and 1903-49 the ’Dulcibella ’

7924 Literary 1917.-38

7925 Robert Barton "1920-1

7926 Obituaries of E.Childers’s c.1925-60 contemporaries

7927 M.A. Childers’s obituary 1964

7928 Oath of allegiance and Ireland’s constitutional position 1932-6

7929 Fianna Fai’l Ard-Fheis 1933

7930 Land annuities 1935

7931 Miscellaneous 1917.-38