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Date(s)
- 1854-1978 (Creation)
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78pp
Context area
Archival history
Reproductions of the Dorman-Murphy-Orr letters were donated to Kerby A. Miller by the Kinsale Courthouse and Regional Museum Committee via letter of 4 April 1978.
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Scope and content
Transcripts and reproductions of eight letters provided by the Kinsale Courthouse and Regional Museum Committee in County Cork to Kerby A. Miller in 1978, including:
-three letters sent from sailor John Dorman in Boston and London in August and September 1854 to his brother Edward in Kinsale concluding with his return to Ireland for health reasons, leaving his wife and children in Stepney;
-four letters from the Murphy Papers, including three written by J.J. Murphy in Boston to his brother Denis in Kinsale between 1881 and 1883, and another from Honora Crowley in New New York to her cousin John in Kinsale, also from 1881;
-a 1935 letter from R.F. Williams in Oregon to Dr John Orr in Kinsale providing family information.