Material from W.E. Donaldson, a grocery, provision, and hardware merchant in Belleek, County Donegal, Ireland, in the 1930s–1970s He was strongly a Methodist, due to the selection of prayer books in this collection. Contents: a blank BOT. booklet of the company; a booklet containing typescript correspondence from Coopers & Lybrand Co. for accounts ending in the year 1978 along with an accountant’s report; an old cooking notebook, starting 1935, ending 1947; a small, coverless hymnbook; The Methodist Church ticket of membership, annotated ‘Louisa Donaldson’ (Dec. 1933); two identical Methodist hymn books (likely 1930s); a third hymn book with a Christmas note inscribed from pastor Hugh Thompson in 1924; a Methodist hymn book from 1933; another one from 1925; another Methodist hymn book containing a Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School award for attendance to Donaldson in 1922; a stock book starting from 1932 until 1979; a cash flow book from earlier.
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