| Title: | James Buchanan, Milford to Robert Buchanan, New York. |
|---|---|
| ID | 409 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Buchanan, James/102 |
| Year | 1891 |
| Sender | Buchanan, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Milford, Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Destination | New York, USA |
| 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. | 9705014 |
| Date | 24/05/1891 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 01:05:97. |
| Word Count | 900 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Milford Co Donegal Ireland. 25th May 1891. My dear Robert I received your kind letter a few days ago, with P.O. Order inclosed for seven pounds, don't send any more money until I write to you for it, this money of course will not be mis-spent and you will get it back again some day, but you want to take care of your money and don't foolishly throw it away on whiskey. Every hundred dollars that you save - the interest will bring you five dollars a year, and the time is soon coming when you won't be able to earn so much money as you have done, when you will have to wear spectacles and when a days work will become harder on you, so try and save up all the money you can and put it away in the Bank. It will come in good to you some day when you will be unable to work. I have spent more than a hundred pounds since I came to Milford but if I had not taken care of my money in New York I would not have had it to spend. Of course you know the house needed a good deal of fixing to make it comfortable. Miss Gilliland often wishes you could take a run over in the Summer to see the house it is so much changed for the better. Of course I had to make it so that I could live in it. The inner yard we have converted into a flower garden, where Roses and Primroses and daisies are blooming in perfection. In the garden I have planted Early Yorks, and Winter Cabbage, Curleys, and Onions, and Leeks and Celery, and Beans, Peas, Carrots, Parsnips and all doing well. I wish you could just see them now when everything begins to look lovely. I spent fifteen pounds on the field. It is sown in Oats, Clover and Grass, I will let it lay in grass for four years, so that there will be no futher outlay until the end of that time. I had the Hedges all cut the ditches built and quicks put where needed. The Whins all rooted out and the whole Hill turned over with spade and Pick-axe, I got a new Gate put where the Old one was, and a little Green Gate put just big enough to easily let in a Cow or a Wheelbarrow at the corner of the little Garden at the junction of the two roads. As Lord Leitrim has now nearly all the grazing about Milford, that field will be useful for a Cow. You remember the old Lot I took you to once at Rock-a-way ave. A fellow wrote to me that he wanted to buy it, so I sold it a short time ago, an made over a hundred dollars on it, I got eighty-three pounds for it which I have now deposited in the Bank in Milford and that money I don't wish to touch at present. I had a letter a few days ago from Robert Whelan a Real Estate Man his office is at the Corner of Atlantic + Van Siecles Ave Brooklyn, he has written to me that Elliott the Carpenter whose house I showed you nearly opposite my two lots on Jerome St. wants to buy the lots, I wrote Whelan that I could not name a price for the lots as they may have increased in value since I left Brooklyn, but I bid him write me again and let me know the highest price he could sell them for, and then I would write and let him know whether I would take it. Now when the weather is pleasant some Sunday you might take a run out to Jerome St. and see if there are any new buildings and you might call on that Swede Carpenter or on Elliott and ask them what the lots are worth. Elliott wants to buy the Lots,- but you need not tell that I have written you, I want to find out if they have increased. None of Uncle John's family have written although I sent word to Alice Simpson of their Mother's death, I never bothered about the house, until two weeks ago, when I heard that a Sadler Conaghan who had been a weekly tenant with the Old Woman, and John McDevitt who wanted to start one of his sons in business were after the house. Whyte [White?] the Clerk was in town the day I heard it, so I just when [went?] down and told him when he went to Mulroy to ask Mr Manning to accept me as the Representative of Mrs Buchanan as tenant for the House, and I would pay the arrears. The next day I had a nice letter from Mr Manning saying he had much pleasure in making me the Tenant, so last week I went down and paid the Arrears ten pounds and got my receipt. After I paid the money Mr Manning put on his hat and showed me round the place, took me to his own house, introduced me to his wife, and I had lunch with them, he treated me nicely. Father says that will be a good house for you when you come home so it will- It now rents for ten pounds. I go to cut turf tomorrow- we are all well. James Buchanan |
