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"Handwritten rough draft of song beginning ""Anois tigheacht an Easpaigh"" from Mrs. Murphy, written by Raftery."

Photocopy of an incomplete letter from a Spanish-American war veteran to his parents in Ireland. Professor Kerby Miller includes in his notes from Dr. Arnold Schrier that the writer had traveled around the world several times and had fought in Cuba against Spain.

Transcript of a letter written by an Irish emigrant in Scranton, Pennsylvania forwarding passage to bring out a member of the family from County Mayo. The letter was published in the 28 February 1865 edition of the Mayo Constitution.

Transcript of an anonymous letter sent in 1852 by an emigrant whose family had been assisted by a Cork city charitable society to emigrate to New York.

Materials pertaining to an anonymous memoir recorded by Anna Kelly and published in The Bell in 1942. This Irish woman emigrated in 1882 out of Derry to New York city, returning in 1889. Per Kerby A. Miller: 'Family perhaps in Co. Cavan, the home county of Anna Kelly [journalist], who "took down" the memoir from her anonymous informant. However, [Kelly] mentions that she was "good at" English, so that may indicate she was a native Irish-speaker [...] Probably an oral history, recorded and/or transcribed by Kelly. Excellent on family/chain migration, and its potentially exploitative features by both the emigrants' sending and receiving relatives: the former demand remittances, and the latter exploit cheap, captive labor. Also excellent on the journey and voyage to America, and on the experience in quarantine at Castle Garden in New York.' The series contains: Miller's typed transcript of the memoir; notes about Anna Kelly compiled by Lawrence William White; a photocopy of the published memoir; and Miller's research notes.

Transcript of an article published in the 29 December 1866 edition of the Londonderry Standard regarding a recent published article in the Waterford Citizen which itself quoted 'from a Roman Catholic journal called the Universal News, containing an extract from a letter written by an Irish emigrant, whom the last mentioned newspaper describes as "One of the purest and best Catholics and Irishmen that ever lived" and in this letter a frightful picture is given of the condition of the ordinary classes of Irish emigrants in the great towns and cities of the United States.'

Two handwritten copies of an anonymous letter (one original, one transcribed) to Christopher Morris, marked confidential. Names an individual as having infiltrated the Cork branch of the Language Freedom Movement, who regularly reports back to the 'Gaelgeorí'. The source of the information is an overheard conversation.

Transcript of a letter written by an anonymous United Irish author to George Ivie in Dublin describing his eight-week voyage from Liverpool to New York and his first impressions of New York City.

Transcript and reproduction of a letter sent by an author in Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin to their parents in Ireland, 20 December 1871.

Transcript and reproduction of the first 4 pages of a letter sent by an unidentified Irish emigrant author working in the coal fields of Montana to a recipient in Ireland.