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- 2003 (Creation)
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Materials provided to Kerby A. Miller by Marjorie Harshaw Robie via email in 2003. Per the Dictionary of Irish Biography: 'After [Harshaw's] death, the ledger pages he had written, now bound into six volumes, were sent to America, probably to his son William who lived in Paterson, NJ. When William died (1902), the diaries disappeared. A hundred years later, they were rescued from destruction by members of the Harshaw family in America, taken back to Ireland, and presented to the PRONI in Belfast.'
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Materials pertaining to the diary of farmer, diarist, and Presbyterian nationalist James Harshaw (1797-1867), born in Donaghmore parish, County Down. Harshaw's diary reveals the strain caused by three of his sons leaving for the United States.
The series includes: Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with Marjorie Harshaw Robie, a Harshaw family relative and researcher; printed pages from a website containing James Harshaw's diary and an introduction written by Marjorie Harshaw Robie; and a prospectus for a book on James Harshaw, George Henderson and John Martin, nephew of James Harshaw.
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Letters written by Harshaw relative N.K. Harshaw in 1895-1896 are located in P155/64/49/1.