Series 43 - Francis J. Briggs letter

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P/P155/65/43

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Francis J. Briggs letter

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  • 1918-[1978] (Creation)

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Bill Devlin of New Milford, Connecticut, great-grandson of the author, donated the letter to Kerby A. Miller.

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Bill Devlin's notes on his great-grandfather, Francis J. Briggs, and a transcript of Briggs' 1918 letter to his son George. Briggs was born in Galway in 1838 and emigrated to the United States with his father in 1851. At first working in shipyards, Briggs worked in the furniture and express post industries before becoming a jeweler. The Briggs family moved from Harlem into the Bronx in the 1890s or early 1900s.

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