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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04192.05 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of John B. Moore letters and a travel diary |
| Title | John Moore to Mary Moore describing Ireland |
| Date | 2 August 1852 |
| Author | Moore, John (1826-1907) |
| Recipient | Kelly, Mary Moore |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Excerpt: 2 August 1852: "The county was generally beautiful; many parts of it exceedingly so - naturally fertile but many parts poorly cultivated and every part filled with wretchedness, starvation and beggary - owing in part to an unjust and tyrannical system of government, systematically pursued for the last hundred years, but perhaps mainly to the miserable system of letting lands, by which the tenant can be turned out at any moment, without a care of remuneration for any improvements he may have made on the Land. Another reason of the wretched condition of many of them is their own laziness and want of energy." |
| Subjects | Global History and Civics Foreign Affairs Travel Poverty Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Government and Civics Sharecropping Landlord and Tenant |
| People | Moore, John (1826-1907) |
| Place written | Cork, Ireland |
| Theme | Foreign Affairs; Agriculture; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | John Moore (1826-1907) was born in Indiana and taught school in Louisiana and Alabama. After medical school in Louisiana, he became an army surgeon and later served as U.S. Surgeon General. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |