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Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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Collection is open for research.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Letters from MacMahon to collector Jack O'Reilly regarding MacMahon's writing, literature in Ireland, and politics. MacMahon reflects on the conflicting time demands of his short stories, novels, and theatrical productions, as well as his work teaching. The two men share news of their families, remininscences of O'Reilly's forebears in Ireland, and thoughts on the perceptions of Irish politics at home and abroad.

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View of Black men, women, and children seated before, and riding in, a covered wagon. A mounted soldier is visible in the background, presumably a Union soldier based on the cap and dark uniform.

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View of five Black people (two men, a woman, and two children), in front of a cabin.

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View of five Black children posing with chimney sweeps' tools.

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Collage on paper, consisting of a type-written list of food and drink eaten by the artist on May 31, 1977, with clippings and bottle cap from corresponding food packaging attached.

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Abstract From the Collection: Anonymous and unfinished manuscript copy or draft of a ballad about the 1805 murder of Marcus Lyon in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Written on a folded leaf of stationery with watermark "Joynson 1859" and lithographed image of a woman waving a United States flag above the caption "True to the Stars and Stripes." The 15 extant stanzas relate the discovery of Lyon's body, but conclude without mention of the subsequent arrest, trial, and execution of Dominic Daley and James Halligan. According to...

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Draft or notes for an unidentified text, possibly a sermon. Caption title reads "Matts. 5:16," which is followed by three lines in Greek and the corresponding Dutch translation of Matthew 5:16: Laat u ligt alzoo schijnen voor de menshen, dat zij uw goede werken mogen zien, ende uwen Vader, die in de hemelen is, verheerlijken. With numerous marginal notes and emendations. Signed on page 16: Dom. Lydius.

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Open for research.

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Open for research; digital version also available.

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Open for research.

Restrictions on access

Collection is open for research.

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Open for research.