| Title: | Henry Tyler, Charleston, to Alexander Tyler, Newtownlimavady. |
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| ID | 3139 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Tyler, Henry/65 |
| Year | 1836 |
| Sender | Tyler, Henry |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | on a trip |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Charleston, S. Carolina, USA |
| Destination | Newtown Limavady, Co. Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Tyler, Alexander |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D 3220/4/36: 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. | 9809205 |
| Date | 07/05/1836 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 23:09:98. |
| Word Count | 876 |
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| Transcript | Charleston S.C. [South Carolina?] May 7th 1836 My dear Alick I take advantage of a ships leaving this for England to send you a few lines We arrived here on the 4th of this month, after a voyage of 11 days from Baltimore which however was very pleasant as we had fine weather & good accommodation. On our arrival we paid a visit to Mr Ogilby and found him and Mr Ross both well we have spent most of our time with them since. The weather is very hot here so we will not make a long stay but will start for Kentucky and thence to Canada as soon as possible. I hear great accounts of the Western country its fertility and climate are both highly spoken of but I shall be able to tell you more about it when I get there. We have invitations from Mr [Clay?] & Crittenden the senators for Kentucky, & I hope will find it very pleasant. The Planters in this country (S. [South?] Carolina) make an immense deal by the cultivation of cotton & rice, but the unhealthiness of the climate in the interior & the prevalence of slavery, I think, more than counterbalance the advantages they enjoy the same objections apply to all the southern states, and moreover the state of society is a very unpleasant one, to live in. Almost every one carries a long case knife which upon the slightest provocation he thinks nothing of sticking into your ribs. Assassinations in fact are very common almost every paper contains an account of one or two, people flock here however from all parts, a great proportion of the inhabitants of this place being composed of English & Irish. The love of gold conquers every other feeling. This place at present is crowded with volunteers from the seat of war in Florida. There are about 600 Indians there, who have kept [1,000?] troops employed all the winter, endeavouring to subjugate them, and they are just when they started, there have been about a dozen Indians killed and about two or three hundred Americans, one Chief was killed who had 100 white scalps in his belt, all operations have ceased for this season on account of the climate & I calculate it will cost Jonathan some few dollars & men before the business is finally brought to a close. There is another war going on in Texas which is a fine province belonging to Mexico bordering on the U. [Unites?] States. The origin of it is this. The Mexican government some time ago gave grants of land, to a parcel of Yankee settlers, who continued increasing till they mustered some 30 or [40000?] They then thought they were strong enough to set up for themselves. And accordingly have declared themselves independent. Santa Anna the head of the Mexican republic, has determined to regain the country. And marched a powerful army into it during (sic) the Yankees before him, and would have kicked them all out before this, were it not for the supplies of money & men they have received from this country, for there is a strong feeling in favour of the Texians [Texans?] although it appears to me that they have been just treated as they deserve, for in the final instance they had no business to go into the country at all, when there are such tracts of unoccupied land in their own, And in the second instance after they got there they should certainly under obedience to the government under whose protection they had placed themselves, but it shows the genius of the people not content with their own immense territory they must be always encroaching on their neighbours. I suppose this letter will reach you at the Umbra, where you & Master Samuel will be shooting away at the shell drakes, I hope I will be able in my next letter to give you an account of some sport in this country. I am very anxious to try my hand at the squirrels and deer. I have not had an opportunity of doing any thing yet. I have formed a great many plans for you & myself in this country, but as they are merely plans I may as well keep them to myself. I shall first see as much of the country as I can & then I shall know better what is to be done. I suppose you enjoyed your trip to Edinburgh. I have just written to [Dunlop?] who I suppose you saw there. With best love to all I shall now come to a close I cant say where my next letter will be from but I will make Thomas write in a week or two, he by the way sends his love also to all the pretty girls in the country [and?] so goodbye and believe me ever yr [your?] aft [affectionate?] [brother?] H. [Henry?] Tyler so I must conclude with a hundred thousand loves &c &c - [3*] [JU23] [36] [LIVERPOOL ] [SHIP LETTER] Alexander Tyler Esqr Newtonlimavady [Newtownlimavady?] Ireland. Who do you think I met here the other day. John Barber, he is in a grocery store and is looking & doing remarkably well. Mr Ross expects to be home some time in August He & Thomas Cather are just waiting for me to go old (sic) |
