JEPHSON, Maurice Denham. An Anglo-Irish Miscellany. Some Records of the Jephsons of Mallow. Illustrated.

Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1964. Quarto. First edition. pp. xiv, 434. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket.

This is the story of a great house, Mallow Castle, and the remarkable family of Jephson who have lived there for over three hundred and fifty years. Brigadier Maurice Denham Jephson tells the colourful story of the family, drawing upon the rich store of letters, diaries, account books and family papers of all sorts preserved at Mallow. The letters include correspondence from William Smith O’Brien, Father Mathew, Daniel O’Connell and Roger Casement.

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