Printed material and correspondence of Vere Foster relating to aspects of emigration to the United States and Canada including:
Abuse and status of female emigrants to the United States, 1850-1890.

A sheet containing daguerrotype photographs of an Irish female, immigrant servant in the United States, 1864.

A printed circular about Vere Foster's past efforts of assisting female emigration, especially in the West of Ireland and his aim to continue this scheme if funds can be obtained which notes 'There is very little employment in that region for women, either in domestic or farm service, or in any other industrial work, and therefore the greater number of girls either remain at home earning nothing, or enter into service at wages varying from 3 pounds to 6 pounds a year, or get married, with the prospect of at least an equal, if not increased, poverty and perhaps destitution in the next generation. ..Meanwhile there is abundant employment for girls in all parts of the United States, and in the healthy and prosperous British Colonies of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, at wages varying from 15 pounds to 40 pounds a year, which would enable them to give, as, to their credit, Irish girls are in the habit of giving, far more help to their parents than they could possibly give them from their earnings in Ireland, and when they marry and settle down in any of those countries they may bring up their families with a prospect of comfort and independence', 1 October 1886.

Letters of Elizabeth Foster and her daughter, Lady Elizabeth, later Duchess of Downshire, 1777-1810.

Extracts from the diaries of Revd. Cavendish Foster, covering Lady Elizabeth Foster's separation from her husband, John Thomas Foster, 1861- c.1865.

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