Series 3 - Masterson family letters (Bessie Masterson McManus letter)

17pp

The original manuscripts of the Masterson Letters are located in the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort. The copies of the letters were collected by Kerby A. Miller in 1973-75, from which he created the transcripts. Per letter of 12 March 1990 from Mary Margaret Bell, Manuscripts Curator, Kentucky Historical Society, 'I feel confident that the donor is now deceased. We are not sure of the exact provenance of the group. The Mastersons may be ancestors of one of our early officials, as other individuals' papers came to us in that way in the Society's early days. I don't have any information, however, to document that possibility. I do think it is possible that these papers have been here eighty or ninety years, so the trail from their arrival is very cold.'

Transcripts and reproductions of Bessie Masterson McManus' 1850 letter sent from County Kilkenny to her cousin Michael Masterson in Kentucky. The remainder of the Masterson letters, as well as Kerby A. Miller's research on the family, are located in P155/33/7.