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- 1898-1977 (Creation)
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38pp
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Archival history
The Molly Mackey letters were held by Elizabeth O'Toole of Bray, County Wicklow who provided them to the University of Michigan/Bentley Historical Library's Immigration Sources Project on 19 July 1977. Copies of the manuscripts were then provided to Kerby A. Miller by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard and Francis X. Blouin of the Bentley Historical Library.
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Scope and content
Reproductions of seven letters sent by Molly Mackey, a young woman from County Tipperary who entered St. Augustine's Convent in Troy, New York in 1898 and took the name Sister Agnes Frances, and of four letters sent from from the convent by Sister John the Baptist to Molly's family in Tipperary. The letters conclude with a letter from September 1900 informing Molly's mother of her passing, likely from tuberculosis. Also included is a photocopy of the letter of donation providing further background on the Mackeys.