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- 1885-1990 (Creation)
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125pp
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Archival history
The Landy letters were held by Eileen McKenna of Balbriggan, County Dublin who provided them to the University of Michigan/Bentley Historical Library's Immigration Sources Project. Copies of the manuscripts were then provided to Kerby A. Miller by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard and Francis X. Blouin of the Bentley Historical Library, from which Miller created transcripts. McKenna granted Kerby A. Miller pemrission to publish the letters per her letter of 26 January 1990. McKenna also sent family photographs to Miller on 10 March 1990.
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Scope and content
Letters (reproductions and transcripts), biographical notes, and photographs pertaining to Mary Ann Landy, a native of Balbriggan, County Dublin who emigrated to Philadelphia as a teenager in 1885. According to family tradition, Landy was only 16 or 17 years old when she emigrated from Balbriggan. The family has no recollection or record of what happened to her beyond the four letters, dated 1884-1885, in this collection. Also included is correspondence from 1990 between Kerby A. Miller and donor Eileen McKenna, and a 1989 Balbriggan Heritage Project booklet (24pp).