Introduction to the Richmond Papers
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The Richmond papers, which include 1930 documents, 1789-1804 and 1807-1818, are the papers of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, mainly as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1807-1813. The originals are in the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, NLI MSS 48-74.
Ms. 75A is an index to the correspondents, and Ms. 75 is a descriptive list, giving the reference number, date, correspondents (where appropriate) and a very brief summary of contents, for each document. Ms.75-75A should therefore be consulted before the documents. The documents are bound into volumes, the spines of which give the NLI Ms. number (58-74), the volume number (1-17) and the running document number; the documents are numbered, not foliated.
They appear to have been bound according to an original office or family filing-system, which is not only hopelessly inconsistent, but also takes in a volume of material which has nothing whatever to do with Ireland.