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City of Cork Steam Packet Co Ltd

Miscellaneous documents and memorabilia, mainly personal.

'Hewitt's wallet contents'. Hotel and Shop receipts, notes & reservations made by Hewitt when travelling in France & Italy, includes pocket book and clippings. (1 file)

Miscellaneous. Various calling cards and business cards; Cards soliciting favour in upcoming election for Town councillor, governor of the gaol; adverts for Paris restaurants, photographe, dentists and opticians etc; European train tickets; Baggage label; Lists; Voting registration for Thomas Hewitt; Programme des Courses au Bois de Bologne 1861; Correspondence; Rough accounts; Common Search for Judgements, Revivals; Statement of property & liabilities & improvements at Summerhill: 'work done on Summerhill since I came'; List of broken glass to be replaced, 1865; A list of broken and imperfect goods at Summerhill House; Stamp Department, Price lists; Memorandum of agreement between Thomas Hewitt & Thomas Henry Hewitt; 'Instructions for my executors' Isaac Hewitt, 1838; Stamp office. (1 file)

Personal belongings of Thomas Hewitt. Handwritten lists of flowers and prices; Rough accounts including one with the Duke of Devonshire for rent; Legal items including: O'Brien v Callanan draft affidavit, Thomas Hewitt; Typed list of Debenture holders including Thomas Hewitt, Summerhill; Correspondence re. courtcase; Typed list of resolves to induce the state to purchase the railways of Ireland; Light hearted letter re the sale of Grand Feminine Investment Co. By order P_Seey. Addressed to Thomas Hewitt; Handwritten Cork Queenstown timetable; Empty envelope for prescription prepared by Robert Alsop Chemist and Druggist for Thomas Hewitt; Handwritten verses including 'Character of Ring Wm 3rd..Born Nov 4th 1650, died March 1701 reigned 12 years and 25 days', 'The Kerry Recruit', 1822, various sayings; Hymns, verse and prose in french and english, musical sheet; Sketch plan of garden; List of butter merchants, Cork Various addresses; Memento photos and description of Statue of Hardinge; Religious material including: 'The Varieties of the sacred name', handwritten prayer; Pamphlet: 'Information regarding her majesty's royal letters patent and the securing of inventions' n.d. Booklet: 'W. Belch's general arithmetical tables with a table of remarkable events, the kings and queens of England' nineteenth edition n.d. Booklet: 'Notes of causes of fires; or which is the safest of various methods of warming buildings' (London, 1853); Handwritten recipe for tonic mixture, milk tonic pills, artificial milk, destroying apple disease, cough mixture, effervescing draught; Lists and scientific observations Draft letters and accounts; Plan of orchestra seating; Newsheet: 'The Freeholder' Tuesday December 20th, 1814; Paper cuttings of a lighthearted and political nature; Map of Ireland in Irish language ; One Pound Ten Shillings/Thirty Shilling Note of the Cork Bank; Watercolour sketch of round towers or grain stores; Mr Hewitt, Summerhill, calling cards; Material relating to election. (1 file)

Misc. notebook with three pages used for scientific lists; Catalogues for actions and exhibitions, including sale of art works including Joshua Reynolds; describing a viewing of 'The Chinese Lady, Pwan-ye-koo with small lotus feet, only 2 1/2 inches in length!...at the Chinese Collection, Albert Gate, Hyde Park'; Copies of lecture programme for 'Mr Juke's Lecture on the geology of the South of Ireland'; Descriptive cards; List of names and addresses. (1 file)

Misc. Including letter from McSwiney Delaney & Co. Dublin; empty envelope addressed to Hewitt Esq, Adelaide Place, Cork; Great Western Railway, Luggage docket, 1846; personal receipts; letters re. purchases; receipt to Counsellor Hewitt from harness maker Thomas Farrell, 1854; receipt to Counsellor Hewitt for furniture, 1854; Note from 'Brotherly Love Bank', to pay Brother Cassia or bearer on demand 1 shilling, London Dec. 1803, for the Governor and Company of Universal Philanthropy, signed 'Christian Truth'. (16 items)