Military and Irish Interest: a hand-written personal journal belonging to Sir William Parker Carrol (1776-1842), c.1825, featuring multiple hands in English and Greek, including diary entries, transcripts of poetry, and various finished and unfinished sketches, full leather bound with gilt tooling to spine and border of front and rear boards, with metal clasp, together with A List of the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full, Retired, and Half-Pay: with an Index., London: War Office, 1825 (wherein Carrol is listed on page 169, as Lieut. Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment of Foot) (2) Provenance: by family descent to Rosaleen Maude Angas (1903-87), thence to her ward Celia Moreton-Prichard neé Chubb (1938-2024).

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