Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1851-1996 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
122pp
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
-Letters written by Ann(e) Brown;
-Kerby A. Miller's research on Brown;
-notes on Brown, her family, and their emigration passages;
-biographical notes on Father Clement Reville;
-notes on the Father Hore Irish Catholic settlement in eastern Iowa from where most of the letters were sent;
-Miller's transcripts of the letters received by Father Reville with annotations and corrections;
-correspondence between Miller and donors Rev. Bartholomew Egan and Jim Rees;
-Rev. Egan's transcripts of the Presentation Convent letters as presented in his article 'A Newfoundland Link with Limerick in Pre Aviation Days';
-Rees' 1996 article 'Wexford Landing, Iowa 1851' which includes his transcript of the William Heatley letter as well as a reproduction;
-reproductions of the Reville letters.