Correspondence between John O'Donovan (1809-1861), and, principally, William Reeves (1815-1892): eighty letters (1832-1860) and twenty-six undated note fragments.

[List of queries in an unidentified hand, mainly concerning place names, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[Letter from E. Murphy (Kenmare, County Kerry) to William [Maunsell] Hennessy (Record Office, Four Courts), describing Murphy's study of Irish language and place names.]

[List of queries in an unidentified hand, mainly concerning place and family names, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[List of queries in an unidentified hand, mainly concerning place names, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[List of queries in an unidentified hand, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[Letter from William Reeves to John O'Donovan, mainly concerning Irish place names, incorporating O'Donovan's response.]

[List of queries, probably in William Reeves's hand, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[List of queries in an unidentified hand, mainly concerning the location of places, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[List of queries in an unidentified hand, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[Copy, in Eugene O'Curry's hand, of a letter from John Thurnham, mostly containing queries on etymology; and on the invasions of Galloway from Ulster.]

[Part of a letter from Eugene O'Curry (11 Judd Street, Brunswick Square, London) to 'My dear Doctor', regarding comments on the corrections of unspecified proofs.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing the meaning of the word Dobhar.]

[Letter from William Reeves ([Parsonage], Ballymena, Co. Antrim) to John O'Donovan, concerning mainly Irish place names; includes O'Donovan's response.]

[Letter from William Reeves (Parsonage House, Ballymena, Co. Antrim) to John O'Donovan, concerning Irish place and family names; includes O'Donovan's response.]

[Letter from William Reeves ([Parsonage], Ballymena, Co. Antrim) to John O'Donovan, providing a new transcription of the Belfast bell inscription; includes O'Donovan's response.]

[List of queries, probably in William Reeves's hand, mainly concerning places and names of clans, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[Manuscript [essay draft?] by John O'Donovan, discussing the origin of the word Termon.]

[List of queries, probably in William Reeves's hand, answered by John O'Donovan.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (Trinity College, Dublin) to William Reeves (Lusk, Co. Dublin), discussing the Irish names for the names of the week.]

[Letter from George Stephens to Eugene O'Curry, discussing O'Curry's health; Irish manuscripts in Scandinavia; and the origin of a casket.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage House, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), discussing the meaning of some Irish words, particularly from the Belfast bell inscription.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (36 Buckingham Street, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing unsolved topographical questions.]

[Letters from John O'Donovan, Dublin to William Reeves (Diocesan School, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), discussing his and O'Curry's transcription of the Brehon Laws.]

[Letter from William Reeves ([Parsonage], Ballymena, Co. Antrim) to John O'Donovan, incorporating O'Donovan's response to queries.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage House, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), discussing Reeves's work, and deploring the decline of interest in Gaelic literature.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Parsonage House, Ballymena, Co. Antrim), concerning his work, health and his desire to emigrate to America.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (36 Buckingham Street, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing the meaning of the Irish word buidechuir.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves (Ballymena, Co. Antrim), discussing difficulties of his work.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing the devaluation of property and the misfortunes of a common friend.]

[Letter from Sean O'Dondubhain [John O'Donovan] to an unidentified recipient, discussing a passage in the Annals of the Four Masters and various translations of it.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (36 Buckingham Street, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing the meanings and uses of a number of Irish words, including Domhnach and Carn.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, commenting on the lack of Irish political leadership and the disappearance of the Irish cultural inheritance under English rule.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing the reviews of Reeves's new book.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing building projects of the Gaelic aristocracy in Ulster.]

[Letter from John O'Donovan (8 Newcomen Place, North Strand, Dublin) to William Reeves, discussing the locality of Castle Drumtarsy.]