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INTRODUCTION LESLIE PAPERS November 2007 Leslie Papers (MIC606, T3827) Table of Contents Summary .................................................................................................................4 Family history...........................................................................................................5 Glaslough in the Kingdom of Oriel ...........................................................................6 The early Leslies......................................................................................................7 The Rev. Dr Charles Leslie ('the Nonjuror') .............................................................8 Charles Powell Leslie I (1731-1800) ........................................................................9 Charles Powell Leslie II (1769-1831) .....................................................................10 The Co. Monaghan election of 1826......................................................................11 Charles Powell Leslie III (1821-1871) ....................................................................12 The Leslie estates..................................................................................................13 Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt (1822-1916)........................................................................17 Artistic and high society life in London...................................................................18 The new Castle Leslie ...........................................................................................19 Co. Monaghan elections ........................................................................................20 Latter years............................................................................................................21 Lady Constance Leslie (1836-1925) ......................................................................22 Sir John Leslie, 2nd Bt (1857-1944), and the Jerome connection .........................23 Attempts at economy and modernisation...............................................................24 Leonie, Lady Leslie................................................................................................25 A royal connection .................................................................................................26 Hard and changed times........................................................................................27 The Second World War and Castle Leslie .............................................................28 Sir Shane Leslie, 3rd Bt (1885-1971).....................................................................29 Home Rule and the First World War ......................................................................30 Early and mainly Catholic writings .........................................................................31 A versatile and prolific writer..................................................................................32 Family life...............................................................................................................33 Sir Shane's dispersed and incomplete archive ......................................................34 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1 Crown Copyright 2007 Other gaps in the Castle Leslie archive .................................................................35 The late Anita Leslie as a possible source.............................................................36 The Castle Leslie archive.......................................................................................37 A. Title deeds and related legal case papers.........................................................38 B. Leases and related legal case papers...............................................................39 C. Wills and settlements ........................................................................................40 D. Rentals and miscellaneous volumes .................................................................41 E. Vouchers ...........................................................................................................42 F. Formal documents.............................................................................................43 G. Maps, plans and surveys ..................................................................................44 H. Family and local history.....................................................................................45 J. Charles Powell Leslie I, II and III (1767-1871) ...................................................46 Charles Powell Leslie II (1769-1831) .....................................................................47 The Monaghan Militia ............................................................................................48 Politics and elections .............................................................................................49 Charles Powell Leslie III (1821-1871) ....................................................................50 Lady Constance Leslie (1836-1925) and Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt (1822-1916) .......51 Lady Constance Leslie's ancestry..........................................................................53 Lady Constance's own papers...............................................................................54 The Co. Monaghan election of 1880......................................................................55 Courtship and the Covenant ..................................................................................56 Miscellaneous family correspondence ...................................................................57 Mainly political correspondence.............................................................................58 Sir Shane's 'Grangerising' of Lady Constance.......................................................59 L. Leonie Leslie, Sir John Leslie, 2nd Bt, Moreton Frewen and the Jerome connection .............................................................................................................60 Royal associations.................................................................................................61 Very miscellaneous family letters...........................................................................62 Things I Can Tell....................................................................................................63 'Mortal ruin' ............................................................................................................64 M. Sir Shane Leslie, 3rd Bt, and his successive wives, Marjorie and Iris...............65 Letters to Sir Shane from his mother and grandmother .........................................66 Letters from Seymour Leslie..................................................................................67 Correspondence between Sir Shane and Marjorie, Lady Leslie ............................68 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 Crown Copyright 2007 Papers of Marjorie, Lady Leslie .............................................................................69 Iris Carola, Lady Leslie ..........................................................................................70 Correspondence with the Frewens ........................................................................71 Miscellaneous correspondence .............................................................................72 N. Norman Leslie ...................................................................................................73 O. Newspaper cuttings ..........................................................................................75 P. Photographs ......................................................................................................76 Q. Sir Shane Leslie's autograph and letter books..................................................77 R. Sir Shane Leslie's books and writings ...............................................................78 S. Sir John Leslie, 4th Bt........................................................................................80 Leslie papers held elsewhere ................................................................................81 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 3 Crown Copyright 2007 Leslie Papers Summary The archive at Castle Leslie, Glaslough, Co. Monaghan, amounts to 128 PRONI boxes, plus several outsize albums, numerous rolled maps and the boxed patent of 1876 [F/2] creating the Leslie baronetcy. While the PRONI list and arrangement covers the entire archive, only a tiny fraction has in fact been copied by and is available in PRONI (MIC606 and T3827). The material copied by PRONI is as follows: letters and papers, 1796-1819, of Charles Powell Leslie II as Colonel of the Monaghan Militia; political - mainly Co. Monaghan election – correspondence of Charles Leslie II, 1801-1831; correspondence of and between 'Minnie' Seymour and her husband, George Dawson Damer, 1820-1848; letters to their daughter, Lady Constance Dawson Damer, afterwards the wife of Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt, 1854-1855, from her brother, Seymour, writing from the Crimea; letters and newspaper cuttings of Charles Powell Leslie III, 1857-1866, about Co. Monaghan elections, election violence in 1865, etc; letters to John Leslie, later Sir John, 1st Bt, 1871, about his (successful) candidature for the Co. Monaghan by-election occasioned by the death of C.P. Leslie III; letters to Lady Constance from Sir John, March-April 1880, about his defeat at the Co. Monaghan election;