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Date(s)
- 1901-2004 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
64pp
Context area
Archival history
Paul Maguire of Ederney, County Fermanagh donated the reproduction of the letter to Kerby A. Miller.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Materials pertaining to a 1901 letter written by John Maguire in St. Louis to his sister Rose in the Irvinestown/Ederney area of County Fermanagh. The series contains: biographical notes on relative Gene Maguire of San Francisco [see his 1976 oral history interview located at P155/50/4/3], drafts of transcripts of John Maguire’s letter; census and land related to the Maguires in Fermanagh; census and directory information on the Maguires in St. Louis; a photocopy reproduction of Maguire’s letter; Robert Ryan’s 2004 essay on St. Louis Irish immigrants which features John Maguire; and Kerby A. Miller’s with Catholic organisations in St. Louis while researching Maguire.