Series 3 - John Ray letter

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P/P155/74/3

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John Ray letter

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  • 1737-2011 (Creation)

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The Ray letter was originally published in the American Weekly Mercury, 5-12 October 1738. Bruce D. Boling, collaborator of Kerby A. Miller, created a typed transcript in August 2004. This transcript was provided to Miller by Michael Montgomery via email of 25 July 2011.

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Kerby A. Miller's corrected version of Bruce D. Boling's typed transcript of the John Ray letter, written by Ray in New York to Peter Ennis in Coleraine, County Derry in 1737. This letter was published in American Weekly Mercury, 5-12 October, 1738. Boling originally transcribed the letter and sent it to Michael Montgomery who in turn sent it to Miller with the following note: 'This looks to be a spoof emigrant letter in Scots and very similar to the much better known piece by James Murray [P155/63/24] that appeared in at least three papers the year before.'

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