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- 1817-1818 (Creation)
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49pp
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Kerby A. Miller created these transcripts from the original manuscripts located in the William R. Perkins Library at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
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Scope and content
Transcripts of 11 of the McHenry-Moore letters dated 1817, all but one of them written to Thomas Moore, an Irish immigrant from County Antrim, primarily resident in or near Baltimore, Maryland. Eight letters were written in and sent from County Antrim by Moore's kinsmen and kinswomen, especially by John Lough of Larne; and the rest were written by Irish immigrant relatives and former neighbours now in the United States.
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The reference copies of these letters, along with the complete set of 17 letters from 1817-1818 and research on the McHenry and Moore families compiled by Kerby A. Miller and Bruce D. Boling, are located in P155/5/3.