Series 8 - Michael O'Doherty memoir

356pp

Typed transcription and descriptive information by Professor Kerby Miller. Miller made his transcript from a copy of the memoirs transcribed and edited by Pat O'Neill. Per O'Neill: 'Transcribed and edited by Pat O'Neill in September, 1997, from the original handwritten manuscript [...] From the family collection of Nancy Gilbert.'

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Materials pertaining to the memoir of Michael O'Doherty memoir. O'Doherty was born in 1836 in Killarney, County Kerry. The youngest son of a skilled worker and/or shopkeeper, he emigrated to Richmond, Virginia in 1853 with remittances sent by siblings who had emigrated before him. O'Doherty wrote his memoir in 1870, in Kansas City, Missouri, and it was transcribed and edited by Pat O'Neill in 1997 from the original handwritten manuscript. Kerby A. Miller's 2018 transcripts of the memoir include several descriptive paragraphs that appeared in O'Doherty's first draft but were left out of the subsequent version. The series includes: a copy of the book From the Bottom Up: The Story of the Irish Kansas City by Pat O'Neill (2000); Miller's typed transcriptions of O'Doherty's memoir; photocopied newspaper clippings and typed transcriptions of sections from early newspapers; copies of correspondence regarding O'Doherty given to Miller; and Miller's correspondence with O'Neill and colleagues.