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- 1845-2013 (Creation)
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Reproductions of the Teresa Lawlor Letters were provided to Dr. Daniel Cornford (for Kerby A. Miller and Beth Ruffin McIntyre) by the Library of the California Historical Society in May 1990 and August 1990. The original manuscripts are held in the California Historical Society, San Francisco.
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Materials pertaining to a set of 17 letters received by Teresa Lawlor (later Teresa Riordan) between 1845 and 1875. According to geneological information compiled by the California Historical Society, Teresa Lawlor was born on 15 October 1829, in Queen's (Laois) County, Ireland. She came to California in 1855, and in the 1860s and 1870s was living in Sonora, Tuolumne County. In 1865, she married Daniel Riordan - who had been born in Ireland in 1822 - by whom she had seven children. She died in 1919, aged 90 years.