Series 23 - Anonymous letter in the Londonderry Standard, 1866

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P/P155/61/23

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Anonymous letter in the Londonderry Standard, 1866

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  • 29/12/1866 (Creation)

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The letter was collected by Dr. Arnold Schrier, collaborator of Kerby A. Miller, who provided Miller with a copy for transcription.

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Transcript of an article published in the 29 December 1866 edition of the Londonderry Standard regarding a recent published article in the Waterford Citizen which itself quoted 'from a Roman Catholic journal called the Universal News, containing an extract from a letter written by an Irish emigrant, whom the last mentioned newspaper describes as "One of the purest and best Catholics and Irishmen that ever lived" and in this letter a frightful picture is given of the condition of the ordinary classes of Irish emigrants in the great towns and cities of the United States.'

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