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- 1870-1990 (Creation)
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51pp
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Archival history
Copies of the Patrick Murray 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 Irish emigrant Patrick J. Murray, who wrote two letters to his aunt Teresa in Clones, County Monaghan, from Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico in 1870 and 1871. The letters described his journey from Derry to New York and his jounrye on an expedition to Baja California with other Irish emigrants to gather orchilla (a seaplant used in dying). The series includes: biographical notes on Murray; a photocopy of 'Two Letters from a Clones Emigrant', The Clogher Record 4, no. 3 (1962) which features transcripts of Murray's letters; correspondence between Kerby A. Miller and Father Theo McMahon of the Clogher Historical Society; and a copy of Quigley, Edward J. (1975), 'Dr. Murray of Maynooth', in Joseph Duffy, ed. Clogher Record Album: A Diocesan History (Monaghan: Cumann Seanchais Chlochair) which profiles Patrick's uncle of the same name.