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Reference Code: GB 0247 MS Whistler A195
Call Number: MS Whistler A195
Content: Letter from Tom Armstrong to James McNeill Whistler. 22 Edwardes Square, Friday [1868?] 'Dear Jim,' The Irish Whistlers had a castle on Lough Neagh in Ulster and were buried at the Parish church at Magherafelt. He suggests Whistler writes to the rector, and to a surgeon at Bray in County Wicklow, Thomas Whistler, A.B., F.R.C.S. who is interested in the family history. Randolphus Whistler died in 1657 and was buried at Magherafelt. The family leased land from a London Company, and the Irish Gazetteer gives details of this. 'Yours ever-/Tom Armstrong
Place of Creation: London England
Date of Creation: 1868
Physical Description: ss. written on both sides mourning, holograph
Language: English
Document Type: Letter
Associated Websites: MS Whistler A195. Transcription and notes.
Level of Description: Item
Access: Normal conditions
Accession Number: 2491 (See collection level record)
Series: Part of MS Whistler A-Z (See series level record)
Record Number: 47487
Names associated with this document:
author: Thomas Armstrong fl.1856-1868 Biographical notes
recipient: James Abbot McNeill Whistler 1834-1903 Biographical notes
subject: Ralph Whistler d. 1657 Biographical notes
subject: Thomas Lowe Whistler b.c.1813
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