Series 3 - James Harold letter

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P/P155/58/3

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James Harold letter

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  • 1869-1973 (Creation)

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Rodney A. Pyles, Assistant Curator of the University of West Virginia Library, provided copies of the James Harold letters to Kerby A. Miller per letter of 14 September 1973. The original manuscripts are held in the Brooke Family Papers, West Virginia Library [accession number wvu.1194951176].

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Reproductions and transcripts of two letters written in 1869 and 1870 by James Harold of Armagh to his son of the same name in New York sending news from home. The second letter goes into detail about a recent street fight he witnessed. Also included is a letter from the West Virginia University Library forwarding the reproduction.

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