Moving letter home from an Irish famine emigrant in 1850 : c

This letter was written on 22nd September 1850 by Margaret McCarthy, an Irish Famine emigrant, to her family and would have served as an emigrant's guide. She was 22 years of age, the daughter of Alexander (Sandy) McCarthy, carpenter to the Crown estate, native of Boherboy, and Nell, his wife.

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