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- 1845-2006 (Creation)
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215pp
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Hardbound copy of Shelley Barber, ed. (2006), The Prendergast Letters: Correspondence from Famine-Era Ireland, 1840-1850 (Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press), containing the transcripts of 49 letters mainly written by James & Elizabeth Prendergast of Milltown, County Kerry to their children in Boston between 1845 and 1850. Also included is a copy of Prendergast, J. and Prendergast, E. (1996), 'Bloodlines: Letters by James and Elizabeth Prendergast,' Boston College Magazine 55, vol. 1, pp. 27-33, which contains further letter transcripts.
Per the inside front cover: ‘James and Elizabeth Prendergast were the parents of six children. Their letters from Milltown, County Kerry, dictated to a scrivener, were posted to sons Thomas and Jeffrey and daughter Julia Riordan and her husband Cornelius, all of whom had emigrated in search of employment to Boston, Massachusetts’.