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- 1907-1992 (Creation)
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82pp
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Archival history
Dorothy Hayden Cudahy provided copies of the Hayden letters to Marion Casey of the New York Irish Roundtable, a collaborator of Kerby A. Miller, in early 1991. Casey then provided the copies to Miller. Permission was granted to Miller by the Cudahy family to publish the letters via telephone call of July 1991.
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Scope and content
Materials pertaining to cousins Edward and James A. Hayden, who emigrated from Ballyragget, County Kilkenney to Brooklyn, New York (Edward before 1900, James circa 1907). Edward was a police officer in New York, while James founded the Irish Memories Entertainers revue. The series includes: research on the Hayden family in New York, including noted Irish American broadcaster/musician (and letter donor) Dorothy Hayden Cudahy (daughter of James A. Hayden); correspondence between Miller and fellow researchers providing information on the Haydens; land valuation and census data from Kilkenny pertaining to the Haydens; and reproductions and transcripts of Edward's two 1907 letters providing advice to James as he prepares to emigrate.