Hurley Family Emigrant Letters (Ref. U170)

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9 June 1914 Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his brother John. He had suffered from pneumonia in April but has recovered well. Remarks that ‘there has been much excitement over Ulster and Home Rule, but more over the suffragettes. A peculiar notion these women have got and what they are themselves their country and society…’. Belfast, he says, seems to be the ‘storm centre in Ireland’. Notes that the Mexican Question remains unsettled. 1p 8 September 1914 Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his brother John. Remarks that ‘This awful war and things arising from it is putting almost everything else out of persons minds’ (refers to First World War). Hopes Ireland and Poland will arise new nations at its close, and notes that ‘The trampling on Belgian neutrality has already alienated sympathy from Germany’. Hopes ‘our new Pope will have a long and successful reign’. 1p 18 December 1914 Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his brother John. Refers to ‘This terrible war…I did not think I would live to witness such havoc amongst Christian nations’. He spent 12 days in San Francisco with brother Michael, and both are feeling well. Business is ‘badly upset in many places in this country – war and other troubles’. Encloses £5 for Christmas. 1p

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2 January 1915 Note from Denis Hurley to his brother John, sending something by mail. 1p

29 August 1915 Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his brother John. He is not writing many letters of late, as he is ‘getting lazy and without ambition’. Remarks that the ‘war slaughter’ continues, ‘It would be better for the governments to make peace and