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Date(s)
- 1844-1886 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
8pp
Context area
Archival history
The original copies of the Lowrie Letters are held in PRONI [reference number T2018]. PRONI provided excerpts of letter transcripts to Kerby A. Miller.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Typed transcripts of the Lowrie letters, provided by PRONI to Kerby A. Miller, which consists of six letters sent between members of the Lowrie family in America, Canada, Scotland and County Donegal in 1844-1886. Includes: a letter from an unnamed Lowrie family member in Neilstown, Scotland to their brother, Robert Lowrie in County Tyrone in 1844; a letter from an unnamed Lowrie family member in Burnside Place, Scotland to their father, James Lowrie in Raphoe, County Donegal in 1847; Alexander Lowrie, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to his father and mother in 1856; John Walker in Caulfield, Ontario, Canada to his uncle, Andrew Lowrie in Ballindrait, County Donegal in 1876; Andrew Lowrie in Ballindrait to the editor of The Sentinel in 1879; and from Mrs. Martha Cranston in Tapleytown, Ontario, Canada to her uncle in 1886.