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- 1888-1977 (Creation)
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51pp
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Professor Joseph King, Diablo Valley College, donated the transcripts and reproductions of the Tyrrell-Hogan letters to Kerby A. Miller per letter of 4 September 1978.
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[This series contains outdated attitudes or language that does not reflect the current views or positions of the University of Galway Library. Reader discretion is advised.]
The Tyrrell-Hogan letters are a set of nine letters sent between members of the Tyrrell family in locations in Counties Wexford and Laois, and Minnesota, Wisconsin and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1888 up to 1914.
The donor notes: 'Anastasia Tyrrell Hogan was the only literate person among her siblings. When she died, communication virtually ceased between her living brother John in Ireland and her two living brothers, James and Thomas, on the St. Croix in Minnesota-Wisconsin. Their children -first cousins- who had never known each other -exchanged a few letters- and then silence (about 1914) between the Tyrrell branches on opposite sides of the ocean.'
The series contains: donor Joe King's correspondence with Kerby A. Miller; King's extensive research, notes and summaries of the letters; some of King's own writings; King's typed transcriptions of the letters and photocopies of the originals; photocopied pictures of members of the Tyrrell family; and a handwritten family tree.