Series 6 - Maurice Sexton letter

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P/P155/41/6

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Maurice Sexton letter

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  • 1854-1990 (Creation)

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99pp

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The letter was collected by Dr. Arnold Schrier of the University of Cincinnati, a collaborator of Kerby A. Miller.

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Materials pertaining to an 1861 letter written by Irish emigrant Maurice Sexton in Boston to his family in County Cork during the early stages of the American Civil War, in which Sexton worried about the effects of the war on the United States but acknowledged that his prospects were limited in Ireland. The series consists of: records of Maurice Sexton found in directories and land valuations by genealogist R. Andrew Pierce; transcripts and a reproduction of his 1861 letter; and correspondence between Kerby A. Miller and Pierce including records of two separate Maurice Sextons in Boston who may have written the letter.

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