Series 12 - Samuel Bruce letters

26pp

PRONI provided transcripts of the Samuel Bruce letters to Kerby A. Miller. The original manuscripts are held in PRONI [reference number T2919/1].

[These letters contain outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.]
PRONI's catalogue of 40 letters written by or pertaining to members of the Bruce family of Belfast, including transcripts of six letters written to James Bruce in 1862 and 1863. Five letters are written by his brother Samuel, who lived in a fishing camp on the Mingan River in what is now the province of Quebec and who also participated in the Dakota War of 1862 which resulted in the displacement of the Dakota people onto reservations in the American Midwest. A sixth letter is from Robert Dunville sent from San Sebastian, Spain. The catalogue concludes with M.R. Bruce’s genealogical notes on the Bruce family.