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"Handwritten rough draft of piece of prose entitled ""William Rúad Mac Coitir ar bhás Sir Séamus Mac Coimór"", transcribed by Donchadh Ó Gormán, an Gharuada Mhucha."

Transcript of a letter from William Richey, a former servant at Tullyveery House, Killyleagh, County Down, to his former employer providing an update on his life in America since leaving 17 years earlier.

Materials related to a letter written in 1840 by William Quin of Crew townland, Glenavy parish, County Antrim, to his friend and former neighbour, Richard Dillon in Peru village, Clinton County, New York. Included are typed transcripts and a photocopy of the original letter, Kerby A. Miller's research notes and materials, and extensive correspondence with archivists in Clinton County. Per Miller: 'Letter provides an excellent, detailed description of the severe social consequences of economic depression in both agricultural and industry, and of the increasing capitalization and factory-concentration of the Ulster linen industry, which devastated cottage manufacturing for both male weavers and female spinners. The crises have created great pressures and incentives to emigrate, either to the US or Upper Canada, but the collapse of both land prices and linen-based incomes made emigration by entire families, instead of by young, single individuals, increasingly difficult.'

Kerby A. Miller's transcript and abstract, and Arnold Schrier's reproduction, of an 1852 business letter from William Porter in Pittsburgh to S. Doake in Ireland. Also present is Miller's abstract of an undated letter from Alex Gamble in Pittsburgh to a recipient in Ulster [PRONI reference number D682/62].

Letter from William P. Irwin, Sligo, ro Peter Ormsby, 10 Gloster St., Dublin re. the children of Mrs. Lloyd; the lands of Cambs; 'late' Gilbert Dodd, Mrs. Lloyd's brother and Mrs. Rebecca Dodd's title to the lands at Ardagh.

Transcripts and reproductions of two letters sent by William Mullen in Pittsburgh Township, Ontario to his mother in Ireland sending personal news and asking about family back home.

Materials pertaining to the William McElroy memoir. William McElroy was born in 1796 in Drumantine, County Down, and emigrated to Albany, New York in 1822. About the memoir, Professor Kerby A. Miller wrote that, 'Its excellent representivity of contemporary emigrants, its broad life-coverage, its often detailed, highly literate, and sometimes even dramatic descriptions, and its situation of McElroy in important socioeconomic and cultural contexts both in Ireland and the US, albeit almost exclusively in the 1820s-30s, strongly recommends McElroy's memoir for inclusion' in his research and studies of Irish America.

Copies of the memoir of William McElroy. McElroy was born in 1796 in Drumantine, County Down, and emigrated to Albany, New York in 1822. About the memoir, Professor Kerby A. Miller wrote that, 'Its excellent representivity of contemporary emigrants, its broad life-coverage, its often detailed, highly literate, and sometimes even dramatic descriptions, and its situation of McElroy in important socioeconomic and cultural contexts both in Ireland and the US, albeit almost exclusively in the 1820s-30s, strongly recommends McElroy's memoir for inclusion' in his research and studies of Irish America.'

Transcripts of 6 letters written by William McClurg in Cincinnati to his father David in Limavady, plus photocopies of the letters sourced from PRONI.

Paperback copy of My Life in the Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs of Private William McCarter, 116th Pennsylvania Infantry, edited by Kevin E. O'Brien (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1996) from McCarter's manuscript written 1875-1879, plus Kerby A. Miller's transcripts of selected portions of the memoir and Miller's introductory notes on McCarter and the memoir.
Per Kerby A. Miller: 'William McCarter, b. 1840-41 in Derry city, into a Protestant family that, judging from his literary abilities, was probably at least petty bourgeois. Emig. year unknown... ...He was married with several children when he enlisted in the Union Army in 1862. Written: 1875-79, at his family's behest. Published 1996. This is an excellent memoir in several respects: First, it's the only description, written by an Irish immigrant and ordinary soldier, of the famous Irish Brigade's disastrous assault on Mayre's Heights, at the Battle of Fredericksburg 13 Dec. 1862, which subsequently became a centerpiece of Irish-American Catholic mythology and identity-and their alleged "title-deed" to full US citizenship, despite nativist-Protestant prejudice. Ironically, McCarter was a Protestant, and his Pennsylvania unit, although part of the Irish Brigade, seems to have been virtually all-Protestant and native-born American. Second, McCarter became secretary to the Brigade's commander, Thomas Francis Meagher, of Young Ireland "exile" fame. Although McCarter never mentions Irish or Irish-American nationalism, or the circumstances of Meagher's residence in America, he provides a detailed and sympathetic description of Meagher-despite acknowledging the latter's terrible alcoholism. McCarter even copied Meagher's Irish poems, which the General sent home to Ireland. Third, McCarter's memoir is beautifully written: it's dramatic, harrowing, with a minimum of religious and political or romantic reflections.'