| Title: | Robert Love, Liverpool, to Robert Love, Virginia |
|---|---|
| ID | 3638 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | love, robert (uncle)/110 |
| Year | 1821 |
| Sender | Love, Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | works for a merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Liverpool, England |
| Destination | Petersburg, Virginia, USA |
| Recipient | Love, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | uncle-nephew |
| Source | T2393/2/18: Presented by Messrs Heron & Dobson, Banbridge, Co.Down |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9503189 |
| Date | 4/2/8121 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 21:03:1995. |
| Word Count | 437 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | 12A Liverpool Feb [February?] 4th 1821 My Dr [dear?] Robert I have recd [received?] your letter dated 26th Nov. [November?] which I am thankfull [thankful?] to you for and glad to find you are well, and preserved from faling [falling?] a victim to that dreadfull [dreadful?] disorder that has taken off so many during the last year in your part of the world. I am very sorry for your loss in Mr. Murry. I thought you would not be so happy after his death if ever you should leave America to come to Europe I would be so glad to have the pleasure to see you in this town on your way home and as you can have a ship at any time coming to this port and as you can come here cheaper and sooner than to Ireland I think it would be your best way and will you see this town and perhaps more of old England. My wife and children would be glad to see you here and the [they?] would strive all the [they?] could to make you happy We are all well thanks be to God your unckle [uncle?] Henry and family lives in this town now and are all well excepting himself who has been but poorly in health this winter but is now giting [getting?] better, your aunt Jane is well and family and sends her love to you and would be glad to see you in this country I am still in the same place and contented in my situation. I seem to please very well and has got some presents meade [made?] me. Jane is still in the same place and is growing a fine girl. We have peace and plenty here but little money but I hope that trade will revive and that it is now better my son John has wrote to your father this day by his last letter to me they were all well My dear Robert I wish you many returns of the season and that you may have more pleasure and happiness in this year than you have had in the last and that the dear couinsels [counsels?] of your Father may rest upon your memory so that the [they?] may be a help to you to surmount all the disapoitments [disappointments?] of this mortal life may heaven give you wisdom and power to withstand all the snears [snares?] and trapes [traps?] that will be lead for you in a deceitfull [deceitful?] world is the prayers of your afectionate [affectionate?] uncle till Death Robt [Robert?] Love My wife and children joyns [joins?] Me in love to you farewell |
