Series 27 - Irish immigrants' letters to James Buchanan

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P/P155/66/27

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Irish immigrants' letters to James Buchanan

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  • 1856 (Creation)

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Kerby A. Miller was provided with these photocopies by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The copies were reproduced from a microfilm in the Society's possession.

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Reproductions of five letters written by Irish immigrants to the United States to Democratic Party presidential candidate James Buchanan (himself the son of an emigrant from Ramelton, County Donegal) during and immediately after the 1856 presidential election, along with Kerby A. Miller's abstracts of the letters.

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