Series 3 - McDonald and McCusker letters

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P/P155/37/3

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McDonald and McCusker letters

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  • 1862-1868 (Creation)

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Copies of the McDonald and McCusker letters were originally provided to Kerby A. Miller by Theo McMahon of the Clogher Historical Society in 1978. Permission to publish the letters was reaffirmed per McMahon's letter of 12 September 1990.

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Materials pertaining to two letters written by emigrants James McCusker (1862) and Alice McDonald (1868) in New York. McCusker's letter details a return journey from Portadown back to his home in New York; McDonald's letter is a melacholy letter lameting her family's poor circumstances and labelling New York as 'hell upon earth'. The series includes: correspondence between Kerby A. Miller and Father Theo McMahon of the Clogher Historical Society; transcripts of the letters created by both Miller and McMahon; and photocopies of the letters.

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