Nicholas J. Hoey letters, 1855-1856.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Nicholas J. Hoey letters, 1855-1856.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261217340

Letter dated Feb. 4, 1855 from Nicholas J. Hoey of New Orleans to an unidentified friend. The letter concerns crime in New Orleans, recreational balloon rides, the weather, and a graphic retelling of a local suicide/execution of a convicted child murderer. Letter dated June 18, 1856 from Nicholas J. Hoey of New Orleans to an unidentified friend. Letter addresses the lack of reciprocated communication from the addressee after money was loaned him by the addresser one year before. Telling of political climate in New Orleans regarding the Know Nothing Party (a.k.a. The American Party) and the immigrants. Talk of more violence in the city.

2 letters.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7155368

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

American Party

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j16th (corporateBody)

One of the most famous incidents of anti-Catholic sentiment expression occurred August 11, 1834; non-Catholic rioters looted and burned the Ursuline Convent of Mount Benedict in Charlestown, MA. Anti-Catholic violence also erupted in Philadelphia when 13 people were killed in riots in 1835. Activities by the American Nativist Party in Kensington, Pennsylvania, in 1844 also sparked anti-Catholic riots. In the 1850s, the American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, was partly founded on a...

Hoey, Nicholas de

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6669bvh (person)