| Title: | [George?], 10 Pembleton Square, Boston, to "Dear Sam" [?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 1155 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | George/30 |
| Year | 1872 |
| Sender | George |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Boston, Mass., USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Sam |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends? |
| Source | Donated by Christopher & Geraldine McLaughlin, Rose Cottage, Articlave. |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9509116 |
| Date | 14/09/1872 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 28:09:95. |
| Word Count | 585 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | 10 PEMBERTON SQUARE. Boston September the 14 1872 Dear Sam I must take up my pen to answer your very welcome note by which I was glad to see that you were all well I have the reason to be thankful too as [I also?] enjoy the same great blessing [?] well in the first place I was beginning to think that you had forgot me altogether but I see that your memory has not played truant yet well I see by your letter that you are having pretty good times of it the girls still continue I suppose to be plenty enough you might try and pick up one for me and keep her for me tl [till?] I go home I wonder little [Katty?] or Bella Ross or some of these nice virgins would [torn page][ me?] Pray tell me what Gussy [Augustus?] Smith has got to say about me I want to have no more to say to the Derry girls nor yet th[?] [torn] [---- une?] ones there is plenty of nice girls here in this county [---?] come home to I would get you a very nice darky for [----?] like the one that I have got myself I have one [---?] [--gie?] a very nice little darkey I wish she saw him [---i] girl of mine in the dioceses yet watch and keep her [for me?] I am afraid you will take her for yourself the girls are very deceitful it is generally out of sight out of mind with them and I will always get as much of them as will do me Dear Sam I am very glad to hear you say that you do not drink as the drunkard has a very bad promise A man that drinks to an extent will never be any thing worth I am stopping with Cocheran [Cochrane?] I wish you saw the building that he and me takes care of we will have more to do when fires begin if you were here you would be surprised to see the way the folks get along here Oh I wish you were there to I would show you some things So I would take you up to the top of our house and let you get a [view?] of the city you can take up a chair and sit down and you will see the vessels coming in and going out of the harbour going to and coming from all parts of the world the [torn] have a splendid view of the city if you only saw [one?] of the building thats in this city there is one [great?] building all the outside work is of marble but I can not describe the things that I see if I were along with you about a day I might tell you some things but you can say nothing in a letter tell me how your other sisters is getting along give my love to them all Though I never rued coming here I will soon be here [?] months it will soon wear up to a year you might send me [---?] or a belfast [Belfast?] weekly [Weekly?] news [News?] and I will send you one in return But I must come to a close as I must go to my work and it is getting late love to all my old sweethearts and to all enquiring friends and expect an old [ Going?] love to yourself write often and soon from George Goodbye |
