Series 1 - John Nevitt letter

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P/P155/63/1

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John Nevitt letter

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  • 16/03/1816 (Creation)

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This letter was collected in Ireland in the 1950s by Professor Arnold Schrier of the University of Cincinnati, who later gave the manuscript and its associated information to Kerby A. Miller.

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Transcripts of a letter sent by John Nevitt in Savannah, Georgia, to his sister Susanna Unthank in Limerick. The Nevitts and Unthanks were Quakers; Nevitt emigrated in 1801. The reference copy of this letter and Kerby A. Miller's compiled research on the Unthank family are located in P155/23/5.

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