| Title: | Henry Tyler, Baltimore, to His Mother, Newtownlimavady. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3138 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Tyler, Henry/64 |
| Year | 1836 |
| Sender | Tyler, Henry |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | on a trip |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Destination | Newtown Limavady, Co. Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D/3220/4/35: Deposited by the Late Lady Tyler on Behalf of the Other Trustees of the Will of Sir Henry MacDonald Tyler. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9808239 |
| Date | 05/05 (?)/1836 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 11:08:98. |
| Word Count | 842 |
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| Transcript | Baltimore April 5th 1836 My dear Mother I wrote you on the 16th of last month from New York, since then we have been travelling about a good deal, we started for Philadelphia on the 19th and arrived there in ten hours by steam boat & railway. we were very much pleased with Philadelphia its regularity and cleanliness forming a pleasing contrast to the city we had just left. we were fortunate moreover in getting into a quiet Hotel, we stopped a week at Philadelphia & delivered our letter to old Alec Brown but did not see him, as he was out when we called on him, & we were out when he called on us, so that visiting cards were all that passed between us. At Philadelphia we visited all the public buildings which are very neat being mostly built of white marble, inspected the water works, Dock yard &c and amongst other things attended a quaker meeting when we sat without a word being spoken until I fell sound asleep to the great honor [honour?] of the hoodkins, We met with great attention from Mr Robertson who came out with us in the same ship. we left Philadelphia on the 25th and got to Baltimore the same evening, the approach to the latter city is very fine, The town being situated on high ground, and the surrounding country being mostly covered with wood, we have found the Balimorans the dauntest people we have yet visited. Mr Moore has, been very attentive and we have formed a very numerous acquaintance, we are going out to two parties this evening, We went down last week to Winchester in Virginia with a party of gentlemen to be present at the opening of a railway, we had quite a festival on the occasion, were entertained at two public dinners and had the honor [honour?] of having our healths drunk by the company. In Virginia we had so many pressing invitations that we could scarcely get away, in fact we might have stopped there for three months free of all expense, we were much pleased with the scenery in Virginia, it is the most beautiful country I have ever seen. some of the country along the banks of the Potomac, reminded me of the highlands of Scotland, but I think was even superior to it. It is the cheapest country to travel in that I have ever visited. I think a person might live very well there on about 20 a year. The Viriginian ladies are also great beauties, T [Thomas?] Cather quite lost his heart amongst them, I had great difficulty in getting him away from them, and we have many invitations to return and visit them again. As soon as we can get away from our kind friends here, we intend going on to Washington which is only two hours journey by the railway from this, after we have seen the president and all the [___?] there we will return to this city and take the packet to Charleston from whence we propose, going to New Orleans, and up the Mississippi to Canada, where we shall arrive by the time winter is over. Spring has fairly set in here the weather has been very pleasant for the last week. Almost all the principal people here are Irish. some of them have made very large fortunes there are several from the county of Derry. I believe that any person entering business here is sure of succeeding. What would McAlick [McAlex?] think of turning merchant I think it would be a better spec than the Canada scheme but I shall not form any opinion till I visit that country. one thing I have made my mind up, upon, that if I were going to stop in this country Baltimore would be the place I should like to live in, It will be a place of immense trade when the railways are opened to it which are in contemplation, it being the seaport what will have all the trade of the western country. There is a great difference between the people here and in the northern states. There they give you plenty of the fine words & speeches here they give you good dinners & entertainment. I shall expect a letter soon I mentioned in my last that you were to adress [address?] to the care of Mr Tichon in New York who will forward it to me with best love to all at Newtown &c Believe me ever aff [affectionate?] H [Henry?] Tyler Tell Master Dary we will bring him a squirrel when we come back, we shall expect all the news in the first letter T [Thomas?] Cather and I have both enjoyed excellent health since we left home, we will write the next letter in about a fortnight and in future we will continue to write time about any letters that come to me at Newtown, you can open and let me know if they contain any thing of consequence once more good by [bye?] H [Henry?] |
