| Title: | James Buchanan, New York to Robert Buchanan, Milford. |
|---|---|
| ID | 397 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Buchanan, James/34 |
| Year | 1889 |
| Sender | Buchanan, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New York, USA |
| Destination | Milford, Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Recipient | Buchanan, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D1473: Presented by K. Baxter, Milford, Co. Donegal. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9705029 |
| Date | 12/08/1889 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 01:05:97. |
| Word Count | 369 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | 940 Fullerton St. Brooklyn, N.Y. 12th August 1889. Dear Robert, I hope long before this reaches you that you will have safely reached Milford. I had a letter last week from Mrs Osborne in which she states that Thomas Matson had left the house and gone up street, so that I suppose you will have the house to yourselves. I suppose you will have to do your own cooking, and keep Bachelor's hall the best way you know how, you ought to get a woman for a few days and have the house scrubbed from Garret to Kitchen and open all the windows that will open and give it a thorough ventilation. It seems John Hunter wants to buy the field from my father and has offered him twenty-seven pounds for it, and my father is very anxious to sell it and get the money, but it would only kill him all the sooner if he had the money, besides I don't want that field sold just now. It will be worth quite as much any time after this as now and my father has no use for twenty-seven pounds, you and I are both getting old, and we don't know what accidents or misfortune would make us glad to have a home in Milford, and the house without the field would not be so valuable, so I hope before this you have emphatically protested against parting with the field. It is very likely the Agent could take it from him as he has sublet it as well as the home, and perhaps it would be as well when the year of the present tenant expires that he should not rent it next year but just let it lay at rest for a year or two. Mrs Osborne has told me that she can get no woman to stay in the house on account of old Margaret, so I would banish her from the house whilst you are in Milford. I am going on my vacation this week. I will be away for a month and if I don't feel better than I have been at the end of that time possibly I might take a trip over to Ireland write soon, Your Affectionate Brother James Buchanan |
