Collections

The Michael Lally letters at Brandeis consists of fifty-seven letters written by Michael Lally, a young Irish immigrant from Roxbury, Massachusetts, who served the Union during the Civil War as a member of the Company C, 11th Regt. Mass. Volunteer Infantry. The letters were written home from Maryland and Virginia between July 16, 1861 (just before the first battle of Bull Run), and June 6, 1865…

Augusta Forrer Bruen (1833-1907)* The Catharine Mitchill ‘31 Collection of Family Letters held in Wellesley College Special Collections contains correspondence from the Bruen and Forrer families of Dayton, Ohio, the bulk of it spanning from 1845 to the end of the 19th century. In 1853, Augusta Forrer married Luther Barnett Bruen. Augusta came from and married into affluence. Her father,…