| Title: | Edward Hanlon, Nebraska City, to Edward J. Hanlon, U.S.A. |
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| ID | 1997 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | O'Hanlon, Edward/28(2) |
| Year | 1875 |
| Sender | O'Hanlon, Edward |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | Catholic |
| Origin | Nebraska City, Nebraska, USA |
| Destination | Pittsburgh, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | Hanlon, Edward J. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | uncle-niece |
| Source | D885/23: Presented by Mrs M. Leathem, Co. Antrim, Ireland |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9505010 |
| Date | 15/08/1875 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 05:05:1995. |
| Word Count | 745 |
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| Transcript | To: Edward [Hanlon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania?] From: Nebraska City Aug 15th / 75 [1875?] Dear Nephew Edward I received your favour of July 31 in due Course and am glad to find that you and sisters & my friends are all well as it finds me and family at present thank God for his mercies to us it was a surprise to me hear that you had been that lenth [length?] of time in Pittsburgh without hearing from you or them although I received the last letter from your dear Sister Mary which I would of [sis?] answered at the first convenience was it not for sickness in my family as every child in the house took the lung fever and some of them turned into typhoyd [typhoid?] type and was not wholy [wholly?] recovered for seven or Eight weeks in the mean time and the children at worst Mrs Hanlon was confined of a Son which left my hands full of doctoring and nursing immediately after recovering and going one week to school the [they?] caught the hooping [whooping?] cough & mumps which went from the oldest to the youngest a few weeks old their lungs being in a weak State from fever set hard on them that did not Excuse Mary in not writing as she knew my address & it would seem that it was no trouble for her to write & letters gave me a deal of satisfaction Kate I requested to write but I have not heard from her if the [they?] write to their Cousan [Cousin?] Rosanna or Kate directed to my care the [they?] will answear [answer?] them Dear Edward I am glad you are near your Sisters & I hope and trust that Your deportment & conduct will be such that the [they?] can look at you as a model and protector I think strange that Brother Mick does not write me a few lines but I can not blieve [believe?] that it is want of affection I know he is not a good writer he is like myself and I know the trouble it now gives myself you speak of the famine thank God as we yet in this section have not suffered for want Early last fall the grasshopper destroyed Everything in the countys [counties?] west of us & caused much suffering the [they?] came so late to our section that the [they?] done then only a partial damage the last two Seasons being dry with with [sic] the Locust Combined cause short crops still we had anough [enough?] and a little to spare and the [they?] just came in time last fall to deposit their Eggs through this section and the winter being of a long cold Even temperature Caused the Eggs to mature I never saw in any Country a better prospect for a large or better Crop than was this spring but after the Pest Began to hatch our prospects was all Blasted as the [they?] did not leave a green thing in the best of the Country visited in this section which varied in width from fifteen to twenty five miles wide and one hundred long the Countys [Counties?] west of us that the injured last fall the [they?] did not Hurt as the [they?] did not deposit their Eggs of being located in the belt visited this spring I lost Every thing wheat Barley Corn oats fruit & and young fruit trees & old ones injured with all garden vegetables I Planted corn 60 acres there differant [different?] times the last time after the grasshoppers left which was from the 1st to 10 of July with Buck wheat Millet Hungary Grass turnips and other seeds which would be likely to mature after that time and if frost should keep off a month later than usual which it sometimes does here I can see my way through all right there is now some of my corn 11 feet high now my loss this season was at least Eleven Hundred dollers [dollars?] I regret the worst as I intended to take advantage of the low fare during the Centineal [Centennial?] next summer and visit your Plce & I may yet five my love to Brother & family also Father & Sally and accept Same yourself & sisters Your affectionate Uncle Edward Hanlon I send you two Nebraska papers P S I ought of [sic] said something of my youngest Child as he was not born when last heard from his Name is Michael Bernard write soon |
