Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/67/12
Title
Jane White letters
Date(s)
- 1849-1990 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
87pp
Context area
Archival history
Transcripts of the White letters were provided to Kerby A. Miller by PRONI. Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts of the remainder from the original manuscripts held in the Canadian Emigrant Letters, Wallace Papers, PRONI [reference numbers D1195/3].
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Kerby A. Miller's selected excerpts from two letters written in 1849 and 1856 by Jane White, an emigrant from Newtownards, County Down living in Canada West, to her friend Eleanor Wallace in Newtownards, plus data compiled on the White, McMillan, and Wallace families from mid-19th century directories and land valuations in the parish of Newtownards. The complete set of White-McMillan letters, as well as further research on the letters' subjects, are located in P155/52/14.