Series 9 - John Burke memoir transcripts

189pp

The New York Historical Society provided Kerby A. Miller with a reproduction of the memoir ca. 1999 from which Miller created his transcript. The original manuscript was donated to the society in 1944 by John Burke's great-granddaughter. The manuscript is now held in the New-York Historical Society Manuscript Collection at the New York Historical [call number AHMC - Burke, John].

[This memoir contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.]
Two transcripts of the 1891 John Burke memoir A Dream or the Migration of 7 Brothers, also known as Diary and Recollections of John Burke. Per Marion Casey, New York University: 'Diary and Recollections of John Burke' was written in 1891 and donated to the New York Historical Society in 1944 by his great-granddaughter. John Burke, from Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, emigrates via Liverpool in April 1847. In New York he works as a shoemaker for Kimball & Rogers and O. Packalin before going out on his own. He brings two of his six brothers into the business, eventually sending them to operate a branch in San Francisco.' Professor Kerby A. Miller writes that 'much of the ms. provides little information about Burke's personal life. Instead, it provides sketches of his various business enterprises, with details of their addresses, leases, and landlords' and also that it contains 'often bigoted and sometimes ill-informed - albeit typical of his time and class - opinions on various political and social issues.'

The reference copy of Burke's memoir, along with Miller's associated research, is located in P155/9/6.