Since most Irish bishops do not seem to have left much in the way of archives, when episcopal collections do turn up, it is significant because it opens a window to their lives and works. A small collection of papers of the Hon Rt Revd Charles Dalrymple Lindsay (1760-1846), Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and the last Church of Ireland Bishop of Kildare, 1804-46; together with some materials of his son, the Venerable Charles Lindsay (1790-1855), Archdeacon of Kildare, 1818-55; and finally a travel diary of his second wife, Catherine Eliza Coussmaker (died 1837), has recently been donated to…