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Eedy Letters. Copy letters and other items mainly concerning Robert Eedy, formerly of Bandon, Co Cork, later of Bathurst, British North America. The collection sheds light on Eedy's family and local connections in Ireland and Canada, on the tribulations of poor protestant families and depression in the weaving and other trades (especially in Bandon), political unrest arising out of Catholic Emancipation (including the formation of Liberal and Brunswick Clubs), and pre-Famine protestant emigration to Canada.

Letter from William Eedy Snr to [John Wolfe Eedy], explaining their distant relationship through two Eedy brothers who served with Cromwell and settled in west Cork. He speaks of their own fathers having met in Ireland and of other connections and mutual friends. [typescript only, no copy of original present]

Statements of account of Robert Eedy, Bathurst, New Brunswick, with Jos Cunard & Co [hardware and general provisions], dated 14 March 1835, 20 November 1836, and 31 December 1840.

Ms index, 'Names and places mentioned in the letters etc concerning Robert Eedy. [Writer unknown]. [photocopies]

Copy typescript of Eedy letters U9/01-U9/09 (writer unknown).

Two sermons, one 'preached by Mr Dodd of Dedham, commonly called Old Dodd, to some students of Oxford who met him on the road to London and insisted on his preaching to them'. 11 April 1836. The other is 'A Sermon preached by an old minister to three highwaymen' (undated).