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Title: Matthew Brooks, Philadelphia to [Rebecca Clark, Urney?].
ID310
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileBrooks, Matthew/27
Year1867
SenderBrooks, Matthew
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationunknown
Sender Religionunknown
OriginPhiladelphia, Penn., USA
DestinationCo.Tyrone, N.Ireland
RecipientClark, Rebecca
Recipient Genderfemale
Relationshipsiblings
SourceT 2700/5: Copied by Permission of Rev Canon J. H. Gebbie BA, Newtownstewart, Co. Tyrone.
ArchiveThe Public Record Office, Northern Ireland.
Doc. No.9403171
Date27/12/1867
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogDocument added by LT, 14:03:1994.
Word Count580
Genre
Note
TranscriptPhiladelphia December the 27 1867

Dear sister i now rite [write?] you a few lines
to inform you that i am still on the
land of the living and enjoying good
health and i hope when you receive
these few lines it will find you and
the family all enjoying the same blesing [blessing?]
i am Astonished to think that robert
clark would raise a report that i was
dead i think it strange that he would
send a letter to a dead man i received
A letter from him a short time Ago
informing me that he had arived [arrived?] home
in 16 days after leaving here
the [they?] mentioned to me that some of [their?]
friends was glad to see them and others
was not that her brother Matthew had
ordered them out of the house and that
the [they?] were obliged to go to Mrs Cumins [Cummin's?]
to live the [they?] found that it was harder
to make a living here that what they
expected the [they?] rented two little rooms
on third story [storey?] and had to pay 10 dollars
in advance for one months rent and his
work i suppose was pretty hard so the [they?] got
discouraged and started back the [there?] were
A great maney [many?] came here this summer
that would be glad to get back if the [they?]
had the means it is very hard to make
a living in philadelpha [Philadelphia?] at present
it is impossible for a stranger to get in
to a boarding house now without paying
his board in advance neither can
A family get in to the smalest [smallest?] [?]
in the city without paying the rent in advance
i heard of several young men that
came here this season and could get
no employment for several weeks
and what little means the [they?] had got
exausted [exhausted?] and the [they?] were obliged to go among
their Acquaintances and beg what would pay
their passage back there was a man in the
work with me last spring and he had
no means to pay his board in advance
and he was obliged to go to one of
the Station houses to sleep at night
And take a bite to eat where ever [wherever?]
he could get it this country is very
much changed for the worse i wonder
what posseses [possesses?] farmers to come here
at the present time provisions keeps
at a very high rate And house rent
is Double that used to be
I would recommend to all that i wish
will to stop where the [they?] are sooner
than come here at the present
time I was hearing a few dayes [days?] ago
from John and nancy cummins
the [they?] still live out in the country
nancy unfortunatly [unfortunately?] got her leg broke
some time ago but is now recovering
i was seeing our old neabour [neighbour?] Mrs Caldwell
a few dayes [days?] ago her youngest dauter [daughter?] has
got marred [married?] some time ago and has
a young son she appears to enjoy here &
nursing the grandson i had a letter
from mary love in summer last
she mentiond [mentioned?] to me that her father had
sent her £50 of a present some time
before she wrote to me and she said
that her brother James had come on
from canada to see her and stoped [stopped?] a week with her
Dear sister i have no more to [mention?]
but still remains your Afectionat [affectionate?]
brother
Matthew Brooks