Series 34 - Richard D. Webb, 'Narrative of a Tour through Erris and some other portions of Connaught in second month 1848'

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P/P155/70/34

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Richard D. Webb, 'Narrative of a Tour through Erris and some other portions of Connaught in second month 1848'

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  • 03/07/1848 (Creation)

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24pp

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The original manuscript is part of the Correspondence and printed papers of the Committee on Distress in Ireland, Library of the Society of Friends, London [reference number MS BOX V3/10].

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Richard D. Webb's report to the Religious Society of Friends' Committee on Distress in Ireland of his 1848 journey through the barony of Erris, County Mayo and adjacent regions during the Great Famine, noting the desperate conditions in which people in the region lived and their 'pastoral, Gaelic' way of life as noted by Kerby A. Miller in his marginal annotations.

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