| Title: | James Gamble, Oregon, U.S.A., to "Dear Mother," Co. Down. |
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| ID | 1132 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Gamble, James/19 |
| Year | 1871 |
| Sender | Gamble, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | miner |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Oregon, USA |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D/3305/1/14: Deposited by Dr. K. A. Miller. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9806319 |
| Date | 28/12/1871 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:06:98. |
| Word Count | 577 |
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| Transcript | Auburn Baker county state of Oregon december the 28th 1871 Dear mother I recieved [received?] your letter last summer and I was very glad to hear that you were well I was working helping to cut a ditch at the time about ninety miles from this place and your letter was sent to me so I got back to auburn about 2 weeks ago I was working by the month at the rate of fifty dollars a month and board but I didnt get paid to next spring or summer I would have wrote sooner than this but I was waiting thinking that I might get some mony [money?] to send to you but I am sorry that I cannot send you any this winter I will send you some just as soon as I can get it this ditch that I mentioned is a pretty large one it is 2 feet deep six feet wide on the bottom and eight feet on the top it was cut for carying [carrying?] water from a large stream for mining purposes it is pretty near a hundred miles long I got a letter from malcom [malcolm ?] it was wrote in July it was laying in the post office to I came here the [they?] are all well he has seven children alive and one dead and William and family are well thats to the fore he lost one of his sons it seems that he followed the sea he got shipwrecked he did not mention when nor where but he was in the hospital six months and at the end of that time he died his name was Robert one of Williams daughters got married last summer to a doctor his name is rose. dear mother you mentioned about me coming home but I think I will stay here for some time yet the distance is not so far as I thought it was by rail the [they?] can go to new york in a few days I am going to write a letter to Malcom [Malcolm ?] soon I was glad to hear that your eyes are some better and I was glad to hear from patrick catherwood abel and thomas and sarah and not forgetting sally ann I send my love and respects to them all and to all my friends and acquaintance about magherascouse dear mother you mentiond [mentioned?] that you were going to send me something in remembrance of you I would like you would times is pretty dull in the mines now there is not much doing I will be idle for about 3 months there is about a foot deep of snow on the ground here now and farther up on the mountains there is more dear mother I hope you will not want for any thing to such times as I can assist you I need say no more this time I remain your loving son James Gamble direct as before James Gamble auburn baker county state of oregon america it is very likely that Abel would need considerable money when he has to pay his wife a yearly salary of what you mentioned but he may have got accustomed to it now and it may not make much impression upon him. abel never mentioned in any of the letters that he sent me but that you were living with him I have just got a letter from my son Before this is closed he said he was over seeing you |
