Series 6 - Owens-Grimes letters

216pp

Christopher Fox of the Old Skerries Society, the owner of the letters, donated transcripts of the Owens-Grimes letters to Kerby A. Miller for publishing purposes per letter of 20 February 1978. These were supplemented by reproduced copies donated by Fox and his granddaughter Christina Keane in 1989 from which Miller created new transcripts.

Materials pertaining to a set of 9 letters written by siblings Celia Grimes of Flushing, New York and Stephen Owens of Clontarf, Minnesota to their family in Skerries, County Dublin between 1870 and 1920. Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with the letter donors, family descdendants Christopher Fox and Christine Keane; census data and land valuations from Skerries pertaining to the Grimes family; transcripts and reproductions of the Owens-Grimes letters; correspondence between Miller and other researchers; and MIller's secondary research on Clontarf and Swift County, Minnesota.