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- 1811-1974 (Creation)
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42pp
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Archival history
Kerby A. Miller was provided with reproductions of the Kernan-Devereaux letters by Alexandra Lipsky, Manuscript Arranger, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cornell University Libraries, via letter of 7 March 1974.
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Scope and content
Materials pertaining to the Kernan-Devereux letters, a set of three letters held in the Kernan Family Letters in the Cornell University Library, which includes letters from: William Russell in Dublin, Ireland to Margaret Stubbs in Steuben County, New York in 1811; Hannah Butler in New York, New York to Julia Clapp in Oxford, New York in 1818; and Mary Devereux in Utica, New York to her mother, Hannah Butler, in New York, New York in 1819.
The series contains: typed transcripts of the letters; Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with archivists and a manuscript arranger at Cornell University; photocopies of the original letters; a photocopy of an additional, possibly related, letter from 1866 and an abstract from Cornell; biographical research.