Hurley Family Emigrant Letters (Ref. U170)

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Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his brother John Hurley, Tawnies, Clonakilty, County Cork. Welcomes John’s 15 th August letter, ‘the day that we used to have the early part of our harvest – in the days when we were young’. Notes that John would have no trouble saving the hay in Nevada, but that there might not be any hay to save owing to the drought. Farmers and Towns along the Truckee river are getting their water pumped out of Lake Tahoe. He is ‘pretty well though still short winded’ from coughing. Asks concerning the Irish political situation and notes ‘the Free Staters dont know what to do with De Valera’. The new pastor Father Murphy and himself differed in speaking of Irish events. Asks John to inform him concerning the events on ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Croke Park. 2pp 29 January 1925 Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his niece Mary Hurley, Tawnies, Clonakilty, County Cork. He has not received a letter from Tawnies for some time. Notes the ‘very heavy rains in the British Isles’. His health is somewhat improved. Sends ‘a little check’. Hopes her father is holding up well, ‘He will soon be of venerable age’. He supposes that some of the family are going to Rome for holy year pilgrimages, and he would have been ‘very apt to go’ had he been in the old country. 2pp 8 April 1925 Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his niece Mary Hurley, Tawnies, Clonakilty, County Cork. Thanks her for the letter received before St.Patrick’s Day and for the shamrock which he wore proudly that day. Many cans and boxes were returned or destroyed and saddest of all ‘the confiscation of a little bottle of whiskey which was sent along to mellow things up’. Michael is in pretty good health, but ‘never more discontented...He has spent the savings of a life in mining speculation expecting to strike the crock of gold some day. Now he has not much hope…’. 2pp 5 June 1925 Letter from Denis Hurley, Carson City, Nevada to his niece Mary Hurley, Tawnies, Clonakilty, County Cork. He is sorry to hear her father has suffered from rheumatism. Brother Michael suffers from lumbago. Encloses a newspaper clipping announcing his ‘political elevation as Chairman of our City Council. It carries no salary, but we all like a