Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/59/11
Title
Halifax letters
Date(s)
- 1785-1975 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
11pp
Context area
Archival history
Transcripts excerpted from Punch, T. M. (1975). 'Letters from Home'. The Irish Ancestor 7, no. 1, pp. 1-7.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Journal article by Terence M. Punch containing transcripts of two letters written to Irish emigrants settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia:
- Cornelius and Johanna Kiely, Kilmacthomas, to their son, 24 October 1830;
- Simon Preston, Waterford, to his nephew Captain Jones Fawson, 1 March 1785.