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Photograph of a man of short stature, in a double button overcoat, holding his gloves. His tophat sits on the table next to him, and the neck of his shirt has been colored blue. Printed by MacAndrew Photographer, at 44 Regent Circus, Picadilly, London.
Copy correspondence between two generations of Perkinson and Monaghan family members, all connected with Croghan, near Birr, Co Offaly and the Irish Hills area of the state of Michigan, USA. Following the devastation of the Great Famine, John Monaghan emigrated firstly to Suffolk and then to Michigan, where he received letters from his sister, Mary and her husband William Perkinosn, pleading for assistance to also enable their family emigrate to America. The correspondence describes the effect of famine and emigration on the Croghan area. Their son William, who emigrated to Lancashire, also writes to his cousin in Michigan of the second generation with much the same request.
Photocopy of letter from William Parkinson, Widnes, Lancashire, England to his cousin John Monaghan, thanking John for his letter and remarking that he had found his address in an old book of his father's, and remembers the correspondence of the previous generation. He asks after the Herrig and Dewan families originally from Cloghan who had emigrated many years previously. Repeats his intention to move to America and asks for assistance.
Two letters from Frances Cashel Hoey to her mother Charlotte Jane Johnston, reporting on her brother Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston's condition after being bitten by a rabid patient.
Two letters from John Cashel Hoey at Moor Mead House near Glastonbury, Somerset, to his mother-in-law Charlotte Jane Johnston informing her of the death and funeral of her son Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston.
Letter from William Pattison Kerr at Sydling, Dorchester, England, to Francis William Lamb at 31 Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, County Dublin, wishing him a happy birthday.
