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Photocopy of McAdoo, William (1906). Guarding a Great City New York and London: Harper & Brothers. William McAdoo was a lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1883 to 1891, and served as New York City Police Commissioner from 1904 to 1906. He was born in Rathmelton, Co. Donegal on 25 October 1853. His family emigrated to the United States and settled in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1865. McAdoo died on 7 June 1930 in New York City.
Also included is a printout of the Wikipedia article on McAdoo (retrieved 4 August 2017).

[These letters contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.]
The William Hill letters are based primarily on typed transcripts and photocopies of 10 letters, dated 1847-1883, most of them written by William Hill, a cotton planter and merchant in Abbeville, South Carolina, to his brother, David Hill, in Ballynure town and parish, County Antrim. Hill, who emigrated to South Carolina in 1822, had United Irish antecedents and strong Irish republican, anti-monarchical, and anti-British political opinions, which in his mind, at least, did not contradict his commitment to Southern slavery and racial hierarchy.
Per Miller,'The William Hill letters illuminate:

1. Early 19th-century emigration of Ulster Presbyterians who, despite landlord and growing Orange Order hegemony, retained Irish republican and anti-British political attitudes, inherited from the United Irishmen of the 1790s.
2. Nineteenth-century Ulster Presbyterian emigration to the Old South, continuing a migration pattern prominent since the 1760s-70s.
3. Ulster Presbyterian (and other Irish) settlers in South Carolina.
4. Irish immigrant cotton planters in South Carolina and the Old South, generally.
5. Irish immigrants in the Old South: their experiences with, and attitudes toward, slavery, Southern secession, the Civil War, Southern defeat and slave emancipation, and post-war Reconstruction.
6. Irish Protestant immigrants' attitudes to Irish Catholic immigrants (especially Famine immigrants).
7. The Know-Nothing movement and anti-Irish prejudice-even anti-Irish Protestant prejudice.
8. Acute homesickness and nostalgia for Ireland among Irish [Protestant] immigrants.'
   The series also includes: one conference paper and one published essay by KM, on the Irish in the Old South, based partly on William Hill's letters; KM's research correspondence with the letters' donor, Dr. William G. Hill of Abbeville, with librarians and archivists, mostly in South Carolina; KM's research notes taken from Irish and other 19th-century sources; photocopied pages from published studies of Abbeville and the Irish in South Carolina; Kerby Miller's correspondence with researcher Chris Hill of Worcestershire, England, and Hill's study on Samuel Alexander Hill.

Letters from William Healy, solicitor, Ennis, Co. Clare, acting on John Wilson Lynch's behalf with regard to the fixing of rents in the Land Court. [see also LE6/B/549, B/57, and D/201].

Materials pertaining to three letters sent by William H. Francis of Cascade, Iowa to his nephew in Lorgan, County Armagh between 1872 and 1879.
Per Kerby A. Miller: ‘According to information from [Dr. Arnold] Schrier, Francis was a member of the Church of Ireland, and a medical doctor, who emigrated to the United States in the early 1850s. By 1879, he had been in Cascade, Iowa, over twenty years practicing medicine.’
The series includes: Miller’s notes and abstracts of the letters; Miller’s transcripts of the letters, and Schrier’s reproductions of the letters.

Materials pertaining to William H. Downes, the author of two letters written to members of the O'Shaughnessy family in County Limerick in 1887 and in 1913. Per Kerby A. Miller: 'The donor sent what appears to be a newspaper clipping. The clipping contains a drawing of Wm. H. Downes. It also contains some biog. information, but (with the exception of involvement in the temperance cause in the U.S.) that information does not seem to refer to Downes, but rather to another man, a priest who lived elsewhere. Consequently, the only information I have at present is derived from the two Downes letters. Donor says he emig. in 1852.' In the first letter, 'Downes reported that he worked for the Tea Company and was busy starting a new store, presumably in Brooklyn, which seems to have been his home address as well. Had recently been a delegate to a huge national temperance societies' convention in Philadelphia, where 70,000 men marched in the temperance parade. The convention had lasted one week. There he was elected Provincial Vice President of New York, Brooklyn, and New Jersey.'
The series contains: Miller’s biographical notes on Downes; Miller’s transcripts of the two Downes letters; the original letter manuscripts provided by Delia McNamara in 1989; correspondence between Miller and McNamara including a photograph of Downes; photocopies of the letters provided to Miller in 1978 by William O’Shaughnessy; Miller’s correspondence with fellow researchers attempting to obtain information regarding Downes; and photocopies of late 19th books on temperance organisations featuring mentions of Downes provided by Marion Casey.

Written comments submitted by Article 19 to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Goodwin V. The United Kingdom.

A statement of account of Adam Ormsby will William Gilpin. Includes reference to "your subscription for 1 day's pay for the Battle of Waterloo".

Photocopy of a letter written by William G. Bourke in Oyster Bay, New York to John Devoy in 1878, and which appears in Devoy's Post Bag, Vol. 1. William G. Bourke introduces himself to John Devoy, having read in the paper of the demise of the Fenian Brotherhood. He relates how he (with others) had been moved by published writings of [Jeremiah O'Donovan] Rossa to support the Fenians. However, subsequent intra-nationalist rivalry turned Bourke's colleagues against involvement and he finds himself ostracised due to his continued allegiance to the leadership, resulting in loss of his money and time. He wishes for Devoy to advise him of what is actually going on so that he could remain at least as a junior member of the organisation. [John Devoy was living in New York at this time and had just successfully engineered Clan na Gael replacing (for all practical purposes) the Fenian Brotherhood as the spokesman of Irish-American nationalism — though not without opposition].

Letter from William Ellison to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, late 1700s. He begins the letter "Hunger it is sayed will break thro' stone walls, why not overcome shame, that is now my case ..." He is in extreme destitution and had to "by my own imprudence ... to sell Rockland, the only stake I had for my unfortunate children. They and I now have no other prospect but starvation from which beggary in this time of general distress cannot save us ... in view of a disconsolate infirm wife and five helpless children, they and I nearly half naked and half starved, once more compels me to solicit your assistance ... All the property I have now left is about seventy pounds a year ..." In a note at the end he requests £2 by the bearer "to keep me alive as I am destitute of the most common necessities for that end, it will not only an obligation but a real charity".

Letter from William Donelan, 19 Blessington St., Dublin, to his father, Woodquay, Tuam.