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Agur Castle Letters
Collection
Identifier: MS-0315
Abstract
This collection houses letters that Agur Castle's family and friends in England sent to him before and after his emigration to America. The vast majority of the correspondence was authored by Agur's brother David, then living in Stalybridge, England. Most of the letters discuss family business (including the deaths of numerous children and friends) and request news of relatives in the United States and Canada, but some mention a coal strike, English immigrants' impressions of America and the...
Dates:
1850 April 13-1863 April 26, 1877 April 20
Julia Ann McNeill Journal
Collection
Identifier: MS-2115
Abstract
The journal contains a series of handwritten essays signed by three different writers. The last pages are full of songs, bits of songs and poetry from the contemporary period.
Dates:
1838-1841