| Title: | Dalton, William to Hogan, Johanna, 1853 |
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| ID | 4293 |
| Collection | Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick] |
| File | oceans/55 |
| Year | 1853 |
| Sender | Dalton, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | prosperous farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Co. Tipperary, Ireland |
| Destination | New South Wales, Australia |
| Recipient | Hogan, Johanna |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | former employer-former servant |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 1309 |
| Genre | news, advice, farming |
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| Transcript | the abbey golden august 20 1853 Dear Johana Yours of the 23 of March reached the abbey on the 5th of this month together with two numbers of the Morning Herald and on the 15th of this Month the Morning Herald of 28th of May Directed to Mrs Dalton with your name in it arrived here. I need not tell you how greatfull Mrs D and all are to you for your Kindness, and how happy we all felt on receiving your very Kind and affectionate nice letter. What a comfort it is to you to be able to write Such a letter and how greatfull you Should be to the Father and mother that gave you the oportunity of doing so which I am Sure you are. Yes it was always my opinion of you and family that yee all were possed [possessed] of that Degree of honour and honesty and gratitude which was very rear [rare] to be found in an other family and what I often Said Since yee left that yee Couldent but have look [luck] which I am glad to percive by your letters. Yes indeed Johana it is now I Know year wor[th] when I am Dealing with a Set of robbers that I cannot trust one of them. Not so when I had yee. I came home quite Content with the Keys of all my barn[s] under year care but now I must Stay and bring them home every night. Often I told the ruffins yee left after yee that I wished to god I Kept one of yee at home and gave him a hundred pounds ayear I would put three in my pocket. I hope I need not adviz[e] yee to follow the Same line of life in a forren land as I am sure that Nothing will induce yee to act other Wise. Dear Johana if those who you live with Knew year Worth as I do What a treasure they would Set on yee. You Mention that you are living with a leady & if She Know Your Worth as Well as I do What a treasure She Would have in you but if you live with her for any time She then will say that I have not told half your worth. Yes Johana for your Morel Conduct honour and honesty I would be Security to any amt Not for you a lone but for any Member of your family. The leadies here were very glad to hear that poor little Mary was gone to the Convent. As to my part I think you Can Save your Soul out side as well as her. I was nevr fond of Convents. You Canot but remember that I had my darling Maria in one of them for five years paying a 100£ a year for her and Came horn to Me with her health impaired. Besides my Notion is that god Never created a being to go Shut themselves up for life and Say their prayers. But poor Mary was always fond of praying as Kit often told me when ever I Should Send her to the dairy house that She Spent the Morning Saying prayers & it would be well that She Spent Some time Saying them. The last letter I received from your Brother Ned he Said he wrote it three days after he was Marrid. You will blive Me When I tell you that I laughed harty as I always thought that Ned would never have the Courage of Marring [marrying] any Woman. He Says that She was a good loving wife he Should wait untill the honney Moon was over. But when I told the tads in Mough that he was Marrid young Loyde Cursed out that he did not think he would marry the first leady in Ireland. I asked him Why. His answer was that if a girl looked at him that he would run a mile from her So that I am apt to think there must be something very temting abut her when She throw a leg under Ned. Yes Poor Ned in him She has got a treasure and I tell the loving wife though loving She is that She got ten times a more loving husband. I wish poor Ned and his loving Wife from the bottom of My heart every look but I hope that your Brothers thoughts are not wained [weaned] from you and to be Candid feel More happy to hear that you were Marrid [torn: ?and in your] own house. Tell your [torn: ?Brothers from] me that [I] hope the will not Neglect your welfare as to you they owe a gredale [great deal]. Let turn their thoughts and think of the Beautifull Clean ordly little Cottage they had to Come into after their day Leabour Whilst under your Care. I have never gone into it Since yee left. How often did I rejoise in going in to it when I had an hour to 5pair of a wet day to See everything So orderly and Clean. Do you recollect the little dresser and all the cheeonee [?china] that you had in it. Tell your Brothers that I will expect to hear that you are in your own house in your next letter. They one and all promised me when parting in Dundrum that the would take Care of you and indeed I am s[?ure] they will. Do not offer to think of following Mary. Stay out Side get Marrid and you [torn: ?will always] be a treasu[r]e to [one and a half lines missing]. This Country is fast Improving. Land is in as great demand as ever. For the las twenty years we had not Such a Crop of potaties. I Break the field oposite Jack Kennedy and I am sure it will produce 40 brls to the Quarter [rood]. Pork is 3£ a cwt Butter £5 a cwt Beeff 7D a lb Mutton 6D every thing that grass feeds are as high as they were in Bonaparts time. I See by the paper you sent me that Irish Butter Sells high in Sydney. I wish I Could Send you a firkin of the right Sort from abbey one of Mrs Murnanes Make. Your old native Spot Clougheleigh is all let. Keffin [?] has 300 acres but very low by [?] 10s an acre. Willy Scully is living in Larry Creagh[s] house Castle Park. [2 or 3 lines torn off] You Could Not think how lonly every place is here. Every one that Can g[o] to yee and to America are going. Still we hav near enough yet you May Judge. I road by your little Cottage a few days ago and the thisels were growing in the middle of the road. Now Dear Johana write often and send the papers and I will write as often an[<l| send you papers. Your frind Father McDonnell is Dead. He was removed to Cashele got feaver and died. Yee say nothg about my last letter. Ned Should have it long as I directed to Mr Gibbins for yee. I Send yee News papers with this. You w[ilt] read a Speach of Docter Cahils it will remind yee of the old Country and the old religion. Fare well Dear Johana god Bless yee. Give my love to all the fam[ily]. [2 or 3 lines torn off] Do not forget to write often. I send the free press the [Vi]ndicater the Ion [London Weekly] Dispatch and will be always happ[y to] hear from you if the boys are Sucsesfull at the [D]egenns [diggings]. Come home I will get yee a good [h]usband. It is a pitty you should Breed in any place but Cloghleigh. Farewell god Bless yee. Your Couzin received your letter with the enclosure. She seems greatfull. |
