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P/P155/71/24
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Anonymous 'young Irishman' letter, Cork Constitution, 1857
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- 12/03/1857 (Creation)
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8pp
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Autobiographical letter published as an article, 'An Irish Emigrant's Experience of America', in the 12 March 1857 edition of the Cork Constitution from an Irishman who emigrated in 1849 and is now settled with his family in St. Peter, Minnesota on a farm following some time in Connecticut attending normal school. The author also provides sociopolitical observations on the Irish in America.
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The reference copy of this transcript and the reproduction of the original article are located in P155/61/21.