| Title: | Thomas [Sample?], California to [Ellen McIntyre, Co. Tyrone?]. |
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| ID | 2374 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Sample, Thomas/9 |
| Year | 1887 |
| Sender | Sample, Thomas |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | shop owner or assistant |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Galt, California, USA |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | McIntyre, Ellen |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | T 2722/11: Copied by Permission of Miss E. Throne, Bready, Strabane, Co. Tyrone. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007189 |
| Date | 03/05/1887 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 09:02:1994 |
| Word Count | 611 |
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| Transcript | Galt - Sacramento Co [County?] Cal [California?] May 3rd 1887 Dear Sister I suppose by this time You have made up Your mind that I have forgotten you all I assure You such is not the case but for some time past have been thinking of leaving this part of the country consequently felt unsettled at last made up my mind that perhaps there was time to hear from You before we left here So I will say here if You write immediately which I trust You will do address Your letter to this place if You do not when You write address Your letter to 77 Nassaw [Nassau?] St [Street?] Brooklyn New York that is Sam [McIntyres?] address and it will find me if living I expect to be here about two months I hope by this time you have the photographs we spoke of if so please do not fail to send them I think you have no idea of how much we want to see them Altho [Although?] it is so long since I last wrote I have very little news having no friends or acquaintance here to speak of and our own lives are very quiet and uneventful Since I last wrote to you I am glad to be able to say that our health has been generally pretty good so much so that I find I have not been out of the store in working time one hour since the 4th of May a year ago no holidays for me how would people in Ireland like that kind of life it is very tiresome but such it is here and I trust I feel grateful to God who has given health sufficient to enable me to do so I suppose at this distance it app [appears?] worse than it is but it looks as if You had very unsettled times in Ireland I wish William would write me a letter giving account of the land troubles there with his views on the #PAGE 2 subject and whether Your part of the country is much affected by the agitation also the prices of produce and how he and the neighbours generally are getting along news about any of the old residents that I am acquainted with would be very interesting to me I think of them all more than you would imagine I did after more than thirty years absence indeed more than I did twenty years ago We have never heard from the folks You spoke of I mean [-?] Moore and are not anxious to do so if You have heard anything you might let us know [I find that this?] is going to be [a very?] uninteresting letter but hope You will excuse it as I have really [nothing?] to say my [excuse?] must be [faded] to hear from you all [faded] to all the folks if Uncle Lenny and Aunt Molly are still alive tell them I often think of them and would like O so much [faded] them but that [?] [not be let us?] [faded] shall meet [in that?] better world where friends do not [part?] Lister [Lester?] Eliza and family are not forgotten please remember us to them and say that we would like to hear from them all this is a beautiful country hardly any winter nothing colder than You usually have in October at present are shipping from here a train [?] of some ten or fifteen railroad carloads of oranges every day to the eastern States daily but I do not feel at home no friends but such as You make please write at once [Wife?] joins in sending kind love to all Your affectionate brother Thomas |
