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- 1860-1990 (Creation)
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50pp
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Archival history
Marion Casey created the transcript from a letter held in the O'Conor Don Papers, Clonalis House, Castlerea, County Roscommon [MS9/3/228] and provided the transcript to Kerby A. Miller. Kerby A. Miller acknowledges permission from the Trustees of the Estate of O'Conor Don to consult and to quote from the O'Conor Papers, and the Catalog to the O'Conor Papers prepared by Gareth W. Dunleavy and Janet E. Dunleavy.
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Materials pertaining to an 1861 letter in the O'Conor Don papers written by Irish emigrant Susan O'Connor in Philadelphia to an unidentified recipient, in which she conveys her family's 'utter destitution' following her sister Mary Ann's loss of the use of her hand. The series consists of: Marion Casey's transcript of the letter; correspondence between Casey, Kerby A. Miller, and the O'Conor Don; Miller's abstracts of other letters found by Casey in the O'Conor Don papers; letters from Miller to the Archdiocese of Philaldelphia attempting to find information on O'Connor; and records of O'Connor in Philadelphia in the 1860 census.