| Title: | James Glover, Pittsburg, to Samuel Cleland, Stormont, Co Down |
|---|---|
| ID | 1210 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Glover, James/38 |
| Year | 1870 |
| Sender | Glover, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | just landed in America |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Pittsburg, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Cleland, Samuel |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | possibly a former employee |
| Source | T 1347: Copied by Permission of British Association for American Studies, c/o London School of Economics #TYPE EMG James Glover, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. to Samuel Cleland, Stormont, Co. Down, 1870. |
| Archive | Public Record Office N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8809154 |
| Date | 01/01/1870 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 23:09:1988 LT created 19:12:1988 pg input 21:12:19 |
| Word Count | 232 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Mr Samuel Cleand Esquer [Esquire?] Stor Mount County Down Irland [Ireland?] Nere [near?] Belfast Pithch Burg [Pittsburgh?] Eprile [April?} the 4 [1870?] My dear and beloved Sur [Sir?] Mr Cleand i [I?] sit down til [to?] write you know that We got sefe [safe?] over and we had A pashed [passage?] uf [of?] thirteen dayes [days?] We landed all well hoping theses [these?] fue [few?] lines will find your oner [honour?] and hur [her?] ledship [ladyship?] In good helth [health?] and all the der [dear?] litel [little?] wans [ones?] We trust that the yung [young?] ere [heir?] is in good helh [health?] and All the famely [family?] We trust that he will be as good til [to?] the tenes [tenants?] as his fore fathers Was [were?] We hope god Will bless you and your femely [family?] We send our kind love til [to?] [Henry?] ogel our old frend [friend?] this is gret [great?] ples [place?] fur [for?] publck [public?] Works the [there?] ar [are?] blast frnises [furnaces?] and Rolen [rolling?] milles [miles?] the [that?] make all sort uf [of?] nales [nails?] by meschine [machine?] this is awelth [a wealthy?] Cuntery [Country?] the [they?] have very long cakes And [walons?] the [they?] are three or fore [four?] yerds [yards?] tick [thick?] that is in knew Casel [Newcastle?] My boyes [boyes?] is [are?] all in a good way the [they?] are all wel [well?] of [off?] I think Na [no?] long Man uf [of?] My boyes [boyes?] has [?] the third uf [of?] afectery [a factory?] _____________________________________ James Glover [James Glover Buchanan Buchanan Po P.O. Box 88 Box 88 Alligheney Allegheney Co. Co Venna America Pennsylvania, America?] |
