| Title: | Hugh A. Graham, Pittsburgh to Walter Smyth, [Belfast?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1222 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Graham, Hugh A/90 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Graham, Hugh Abraham |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | works at a liquor trading company |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Pittsburgh, Penn., USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Walter |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | poss. brothers |
| Source | T 2186: Copied by Permission of Mrs J. A. Henderson, 54 Donaghadee Road, Bangor Co. Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8903149 |
| Date | 04/11/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 22:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 375 |
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| Transcript | Jas [James?] Getty Office 180 First Ave. Telephone [347?] Importers of Office of Importers Choice Brands of GETTY & CO., of Wines, Brandies Distillers' Store Beer and Ales and Wholesale Dealers in also Champagnes. Premium Whiskies - In Export Sole Agents Bond or Tax Paid. and For the Large Holders of Bonded Cincinnati Beer Sheboygan Whiskies, Pennsylvania Ryes and Mineral Water Kentucky Bourbons. Company and 180 and 182 Firt Avenue, and Badger State 141 Water Street. Ginger Ale. Pittsburgh, Pa. [Pennsylvania?] Nov. 4th 1892 Walter Smyth Esq My dear Walter You no doubt will be surprised to hear from me after the lapse of so many months, You will notice by the paper on which I write that I have left the Tea business and am only sorry that I ever got into it, but coming here as I did was glad to take the first opening that that was offered. I have been with this house now for over a year and have a fairly good position the only trouble I have is my health which the Tea trade cost me and which I am afraid will never be what it was - No doubt you will give me no credit for getting into this line however all I can say is that I wish I had struck it when I came here at first I would today have had both health and money, and although so many people look with disfavour on the Liquor trade I can say that there is no business in this country conducted with more honesty and straightforwardness than this, the law of this state are probably the stictest in the world governing the Liquor trafic [traffic?] and they are enforced to the letter besides that there is a good percentage in the business which leases the [they?] have no occasion to do [as?] grocers and other merchants do (water the sugar or stretch the cloth) you buy good certain strength and quality and they have to be that and are sold for the regular market price which varies (as in other cases) according to supply and demand I expect next year to be an applicant for wholesale Liquor licence myself backed #PAGE 2 up by the house I am now with so if I have my kind of luck for a few years I may yet regain what I have lost. In regard to drink it seems to me those employed in the business drink least with of course the usual exceptions. Now I fancy this is enough for you at present I want you to write me (c/o of the house and let me hear how you all are I hope well) also remember to Father, Mother, Aunt and any enquiring friends Yours truly Hugh Abraham |
