| Title: | Letter to John Humphrey in South Carolina. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3933 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1831-40/19 |
| Year | 1833 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | N.Ireland? |
| Destination | S.Carolina, USA |
| Recipient | Humphry, John |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | D3561/A/18: Papers of E.R.R. Green, deposited by Dr. P.R. Green. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9306115 |
| Date | 23/03/1833 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by J T, 30:06:1993. |
| Word Count | 507 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | PAPERS OF PROF. E. R. R. GREEN (Copies of emigrant letters collected by and sent to E. R. R. Green as part of his research project on emigration) Deposited by Dr, P. R. Green [The following letter was handwritten to John Humphrey in America and dated March 23rd 1833. The source and the letter writer are unknown. The photocopied copy of the letter is stamped "From the original in The South Carolina Library. Permission is required for duplication or Publication".] Crosscannon March 23rd 1833 Dear Brother and Sister I again sit down to write to you we are all in good health at present thanks be to god for all his blessings to us his undeserving creatures I hope these few lines will find you and family enjoying the same great blessings I have thoughn [thought?] [missing] [missing] getting a letter from you we received no letters from you these eleven months past the last letter we received bore Date Feb [February?] 12-1832 in which you stated you had wrote [written?] a letter some time before which we never received we were sorry to hear of your sickness in the summer time and also of the tremmur [tremor?] of your hand which makes us often think [missing] either not contented or it is not a healthy [missing] which reason or are they more un [missing] [missing] from you therefore I hope you [missing] [missing] letters as [missing] as possible [missing] [missing] John [missing] like [missing] [missing] so that fath [missing] [missing] Dear B [missing] Dear Brother and Sister be so kind as state [sic] in your next letter the affairs of your country or if the choleramorbus which is the name the Medical men in this country have ascrib ed [ascribed?] to it we have heard of it being very bad in the grea ter [greater?] parts of America but is anxious to know [if?] it has reached your border it has been somewhat felt in Antrim it has been Fatal in B[elfast?] Dublin and Newry also in England and Scotland Larn [Larne?] Ballymena, Ballymoney it was #PAGE 2 also alarming in Antrim for a few days Mrs Magill went to bed in good health at nine o'clock and [missing] [missing] at twelve and felt herself somewhat [missing] [missing] the doctors were applied to and the cur[missing] [missing] was in vain [missing] five in the [missing] [missing] it was a [missing]ing to [missing] [missing] place [missing]t sam[missing] [missing] th her[missing] Dear Brother and Sister there are a great many alterations in this country since you left it trade is still getting worse here Victualing is very low here this season potatoes best price 14D [?] but meal 9s Do [?] pork During the winter w[missing] [missing] om [from?] 34s to 38s [?] cw [hundred weight?] but is now from 28s to 33s Do [?] [torn] cattle is very high butter During the summer was from 8D to 10D [?] lb [pound?] D--r [Dear?] Sister Pam [missing] to you that my Uncle Samuel has sold [his?] farm [missing] cannon the same man bought it that bought [missing] Flemings of potters walls Mr. Montgomery Esqr [Esquire?] and Uncle got 1040 pounds for his farm and he has bought David [---?] and as I also stated to you before William Fleming got [missing] his also Uncle James Hus[ton?] has sold his in R[missing] [missing] pound for his farm Mr. Macaddan of Belfast and [missing] in his own [torn] usual and it, [missing] [missing] how i[torn] with him [missing] [missing] doing well as [missing] [missing] [Addressed to:] John Humphry South Carolina [missing]chter District [missing] Postoffice [missing]merica [America?] |
