| Title: | Solomon Moody, Australia to Abraham Moody, Ireland. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1856 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Moody, Solomon/27 |
| Year | 1865 |
| Sender | Moody, Solomon |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Truro, South Australia, Australia |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | Moody, Abraham |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers? |
| Source | T 2901/3/11: Presented by Mrs M Mayne-Reid, Crawfordsburn, Co. Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9503128 |
| Date | 24/12/1865 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:03:1995. |
| Word Count | 387 |
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| Transcript | Truro 24th Dec 1865 My dear Abraham I do not know how many years it is since I have written to you or any one olde at home but I think it must be three or four this you will say and say truly is a good deal too bad however it cannot be helped now and it is no [-he?] to mourn over it but I hope for something better in the time to come By this mail I find you our own and the childrens pictures they will give you some idea of what effect time has had on me and how we are progressing as good colonists home of them are good it was very hot weather (114 in the shade a "fine dry heat" as Wm. Watson would say), and we were often a fatiguing journey where they were taken. Charlotte and the baby are not nearly so good as they ought of be Ernest looks cross although he hahe [has?] naturely [naturally?] a frank and open countenance Alex and William are middling - they have all fair hair Wm's is quite white he has heard people say that he is like papa say that he says himself that he is like papa and will be like him when he grows big - Joseph also intends to send by this mail his own picture Ellen and the children. Altogether I think your Australian Brothers Sistes, Nephew's and wives will occupy a good many pages of your Album. Dr. Watson will be able to give you full particulars of how we are all getting an so that I need not write about business We are all well but John (he is very poorly) and all steadily acquiring property of course there is not the slightest chance of me ever sitting down into a mere money matter - an independant home I have long possessed and to add to the comforts of that home - to increase the happiness of my wife & children and in so doing to increase my own happiness in the extent of my ambition I have still a wish to see my first home again and State hope that we Shall yet meet and have a long talk together Solomon Do not forget to remember me to Margrat [Margaret?] I hope she is well |
