Series 2 - Robert D. Webb/Wilson-Slator letters

89pp

Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts of Robert D. Webb's letters from the original letters held in the Slator Letters, National Library of Ireland [call number MS10193/8].
Bruce D. Boling, collaborator of Miller, obtained photocopies of the Wilson-Slator letters from the National Library of Ireland in August 1973. Miller created his transcripts from these copies. The original letters are held in the Slator letters, National Library of Ireland [call number MS10193/8].
Joseph A. King, collaborator of Kerby A. Miller, created the transcript of the Kelly and Garry letters (transcripts excerpted from King, Joseph A. (1982). The Irish Lumberman-farmer: Fitzgeralds, Harrigans and Others. Lafayette, California.)

-Correspondence between Kerby A. Miller and collaborator Joseph A. King, including King’s transcripts of letters from Johanna and Oliver Kelly in Canada West to Johanna’s father in County Tipperary (1846) [see P155/64/33/1] and Thomas Garry in Peekskill, New York to his family in County Sligo (1848);
-biographical notes on Robert D. Webb and George W. Wilson-Slator. While serving with the New York State Militia during the American Civil War, Webb was the author of three letters written to his cousin Wilson-Slater in County Longford during 1861 and 1862. Webb was repeatedly injured during the war and left the army to go into business with his brother-in-law in New York City;
-the National Library of Ireland’s transcripts of Webb’s three letters written during the American Civil War taken from the Slator Letters in the Library;
-Bruce D. Boling’s transcripts of three other emigrant letters found in the Slator Letters written to George W. Wilson-Slator during the 1860s, including 1866 letters from nephews William and Alexander in New York;
-Miller’s own transcripts of the Webb letters;
-reproductions of three letters from which Boling created his transcripts;
-photocopies of published sources pertaining to the history of New York and the American Civil War used for research context, including city directory pages featuring Robert D. Webb.