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The Hibernian Society of Savannah Records, 1848-1998, consist of 8 cf. of records arranged in seven series: minutes, membership, anniversary dinner, financial, officers' files, clippings, and miscellaneous. (cont) Of particular note in the Officers' Files is a folder of correspondence and newspaper clippings regarding the 1940 letter from Hibernian President James McAvoy to Margaret Mitchell. See the James McAvoy Collection for the original letter from Mitchell to McAvoy. The original letter from McAvoy to Mitchell is held in the Margaret Mitchell Collection at the Hargarett Library at the University of Georgia, Athens. (cont.) Clippings, 1912-1971, are chiefly those of Walter C. Hartridge, Jr., who was both a member of the Hibernian Society and an historian-genealogist, whose collection of research material was donated to the Georgia Historical Society. The clippings he collected have been removed from his collection (MS 1349) and included with the Hibernian Society of Savannah Records. These clippings are arranged chronologically by year only and consist chiefly of birth, engagement, marriage, and death announcements for Hibernian Society members and their families.

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