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Box 1

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Contains 9 Results:

Peter Curran letter to Stephen Curran, 1860 May 27

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010-01
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Letter to Stephen Curran from his father, Peter Curran sending news from Ireland and imploring Stephen to write.

Dates: 1860 May 27

Peter Curran letter to Stephen Curran, 1860 December 18

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010-02
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Letter to Stephen Curran from his father, describing the failure of the year's potato crop and admonishing his son for not writing. Peter states that his letter is being written by another man who is staying in his home, but provides his own signature.

Dates: 1860 December 18

Mastin[?] Nee letter to Stephen Curran, 1871 February 18

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010-03
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Letter to Stephen Curran from his niece, Mastin [?] relaying news of relatives, the family's farm and stock, and asking her uncle to pay £6 for her brother John's passage to America.

Dates: 1871 February 18

Letter to Stephen Curran from a niece, 1879 April 10

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010-04
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Letter sent from Ireland to Stephen Curran signed only "your fond niece". The letter sends news of the family's debts incurred for meal, and of Stephen's mother's ill health. The niece requests that Peter "[…] send me my passage and fetch me out of this poor country."

Dates: 1879 April 10

Ella Curran letter to Peter T. Curran, 1902 March 5

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010-05
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Letter to Peter T. Curran in Kinsley, Kansas from his niece, Ella Curran, sending news of friends and relatives near Chicago and relaying condolences following the death of Stephen Curran.

Dates: 1902 March 5

Lillie Butterworth letter to Peter T. Curran, 1908 November 15

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010-06
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Letter to Peter T. Curran in Kinsley, Kansas from his niece, Lillie Butterworth, in Chicago sending word of friends and relatives and requesting news and family photos.

Dates: 1908 November 15

Stephen Curran receipt for cemetery plot, 1863 May 2

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSN/EA 10010-08
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One partially-printed receipt for a plot in the Catholic Cemetery in Morris, Illinois. N.B: Stephen's wife, Ellen, died April 23, 1863.

Dates: 1863 May 2