Series 7 - Samuel Buchanan letters

45pp

Dr. Arnold Schrier, collaborator of Kerby A. Miller, collected the Samuel Buchanan letters and provided him with his transcripts. The original manuscripts were held in the National Library of Ireland [Box PC431], from which Miller created his own transcripts.

The Samuel Buchanan letters are a set of five letters written by emigrant Samuel Buchanan between 1870 and 1896.
Per Kerby A. Miller: ‘According to Dr. [Arnold] Schrier, the writer of these letters, Samuel Buchanan, was the eighth and youngest child of Charlotte Agnes Buchanan, who - with Samuel's sisters - lived on Rathgar Road, Dublin. Samuel was a "ne'er do well" who left Ireland in the late 1860s - perhaps in 1867 - after costing his mother and brothers and sisters a good deal of annoyance, and after getting all the money he could out of them. He also was married, and left his wife in Ireland; later he wrote that he did not know where she was, if alive. Samuel was about 30 when he emigrated; he was 43 in 1880, and was still alive in 1905. In the U.S., he became a "steam engineer" on the railroad; he also tried planting cotton on a small scale, but without success.'
The series includes two sets of letter transcripts (one created by Arnold Schrier, the other by Kerby A. Miller), plus Miller’s notes on Buchanan.