Letter from Christopher Ormsby, son of Christopher Ormsby and nephew, to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. From Ballahoola [Ballahowley, Knock, Co. Mayo] with which he encloses his father's letter which "contained so much complaint" and continues that his father could have refused "my modest request" without accompanying it with falsehood and invective". He refutes all that his father accuses him of "purchasing my two annuities" without consulting him and regarding his horses "I made just two swaps in the course of my life and his stable was never so clean as when my servant and horse are there" ... he writes that his father "at one time (before I became so very deaf) consented to my going into the army and wrote himself to William Lindsey to try and get me a lieutenancy in the Sligo militia yet he afterwards denied that he ever consented to my going into the army at all". He continues "Now, my dear Sir, how is it possible I can live in the house with my father who acts so ungenerously towards me and makes it so uncomfortable, always complaining to me of my poor mother and of his distressed circumstances, neither of which is within my power to remedy ... and since I am incapable of satisfying him I had better spend as little time with him as possible and go to France again, since he won't consent to my taking any place here and live with him I cannot, till he is better disposed towards me ..."
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. "I called on Mr. Dyoncourt and fixed with him to have Kitt's indentures signed tomorrow which must be filled by the clerk of the Guild of Merchants".
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. "I called on Mr. Dyoncourt and fixed with him to have Kitt's indentures signed tomorrow which must be filled by the clerk of the Guild of Merchants".
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. "Anthony Elwood and Tom Ruttledge have just arrived".
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. It largely concentrates on his will, a duplicate of which he has sent to Thomas. He has directed that "this house in Gloucester St. to be disposed of". He also refers to building himself a "good house in Hollybrook Park where I have all kinds of offices" once he had some of his family provided for. "Since I quit business I find my health much better, indeed I seldom now chiefly owing to my constant visits to Hollybrook (daily) have a headache, which I very seldom was a day without in George's St."
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. Regarding his will which he has had witnessed before I brought "my son Christopher to Potora (sic) school". He is sending a copy by "staff surgeon Peter Ormsby". There is no "material alteration" in the will since the one he made in May 1807 "but William being mentioned in the first made it necessary for me to make out a second will" [William died 21 Oct. 1807].
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters; refers to financial matters and noting "several houses and plotts of land to be thrown down to widen and improve our streets".
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. A long letter referring to two of Thomas' sons - Kitt, who has started a wine business and Anthony. "The Colonel's misfortune" is having invested in the canals. Much reference to the canal's business and operation. The return to health of his son Christopher who is to return to school at Mr. Gavin's in Clontarf. Also mention of Portora, and his daughter Anne who has "formed an attachment for an attorney about her own age" and goes on to list the attorney's attributes and prospects. A number of references to Newcomen Whitelaw.
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. Refers to Mr. Ransford's illness during the past five weeks which began when he went to Howth "with Jenny [Christopher's wife] and the girls on our jaunting car" and much about the Deed of Assignment of Mortgage relating to the marriage settlement of Ransford and Anne. he hopes it will soon be settled, as he "has suffered very much by the tediousness of this affair but a man who had girls to provide for must undergo very great anxiety to have them happily settled in the present times, when thousands of young girls in this city are not provided for and many who really have good fortunes living in boarding houses where men are also taken in to board and lodge".
Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin to his brother Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, largely concerning business matters, court cases and family matters. A "confused statement of account as it is [written] by candlelight" referring to his daughter Eliza's finances. Letter written in haste as he has to sit on a special jury for the next two weeks.