| Title: | Hugh McClosky, New Orleans, USA to his Nephew. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3792 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | mcclosky, hugh/20 |
| Year | 1866 |
| Sender | McClosky, Hugh |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | Hugh |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | uncle-nephew |
| Source | T 1767/1: Copied by Permission of Mr P. O'Neill, Queen's Arms, Bridge Street, Coleraine, Co. Derry. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8901013 |
| Date | 22/07/1866 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 29:09:1993. |
| Word Count | 233 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | New Orleans July 22nd 1866 Dear Hugh, I received your lines, you say your father intends sending you to a shop, but you prefer coming to New Orleans. From the specimen of you chirography and orthography, now before me I judge you are poorly qualified to go to a shop at home, and certainly without a better education you are unfit to come here for any other occupation than labor [labour?] work. Many a well educated person has to labor [labour?] when he comes here, without any friend before him, but if he has good conduct he can advance himself. The best thing your father can do for you is to send you to a good school for two years, Learn to write a good free, legible hand, a fair knowledge of english grammar, to spell correctly, which I see you do not, Learn arithmetic thoroughly. A little bookkeeping thrown in would do no harm, With these qualifications, serving a time in a shop in Ireland would be so much time thrown away, Were you thus qualified I could get you into a store here where you could learn as much in a year, if you have capacity as you would be serving a long time at home. Let your father send you to a good School and I will pay the expenses. I do not wish to see you here, without something like a fair English education. Your affectionate Uncle Hugh McClosky |
