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- 1829-[1980] (Creation)
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44pp
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Archival history
Kerby A. Miller created his transcript of the Joseph Hunter letters from photocopies provided by the National Library of Ireland. The original manuscripts are held in the Major Charles O'Hara Papers, National Library of Ireland [call number MS 20329].
PRONI provided Kerby A. Miller with transcriptions of extracts of the William Hutton letters taken from the original manuscripts [PRONI reference number D2298/4/2].
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Scope and content
-Kerby A. Miller’s transcripts of two letters written by civil regiment Joseph Hunter in Dalhousie, New Brunswick to Major Charles O’Hara in Collooney, County Sligo. Hunter left the Sligo Regiment in 1829 to take a position as Surveyor and Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands in New Brunswick; he is writing to request either a raise in salary or another position;
-Miller’s notes on the Hunter letters;
- PRONI’s transcribed extracts of nine letters written between 1848 and 1857 by William Hutton, Montreal and Quebec, to John Leck, Strabane. Hutton served as provincial arbitrator in Canada East;
-reproductions of the Hunter letters.