Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/65/22
Title
William H. Francis letters
Date(s)
- 1872-[1976] (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
34pp
Context area
Archival history
Dr. Arnold Schrier collected the William H. Francis letters and later provided them to his collaborator, Kerby A. Miller.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Materials pertaining to three letters sent by William H. Francis of Cascade, Iowa to his nephew in Lorgan, County Armagh between 1872 and 1879.
Per Kerby A. Miller: ‘According to information from [Dr. Arnold] Schrier, Francis was a member of the Church of Ireland, and a medical doctor, who emigrated to the United States in the early 1850s. By 1879, he had been in Cascade, Iowa, over twenty years practicing medicine.’
The series includes: Miller’s notes and abstracts of the letters; Miller’s transcripts of the letters, and Schrier’s reproductions of the letters.