| Title: | John Campbell, Philadelphia to Thomas Allen, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 464 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Campbell, John/93 |
| Year | 1819 |
| Sender | Campbell, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Allen, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers-in-law |
| Source | T.3597/3: Deposited by Mrs. F. W. C. Clarendon |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9310405 |
| Date | 25/08/1819 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C.R., 14:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 628 |
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| Transcript | Philadelphia 25th August 1819 Mr Thomas Allen Dear Sir: I had inclosed [enclosed?] me from Augusta the 15th July your letter 26th May informing me of the receipt of the bill for 100 pounds British sent you on my a/c [account?], Mrs Hull's bill for 16 pounds dated in May last and one for 25 pounds Irish on Newry sent you since; you have yet to acknowledge receipt of. Should I be able to find so small a bill as the last, I will send it to make the balance of my annual present to my good mother to whom give my love and duty. Tell her I always reciprocate in prayers morning and evening. After the bill of Mrs Hull in my favor of May 1819 for 16 pounds buy 20 pounds as before. Please to say how much is due her by Rev. [Reverend?] George Hay. He will readily give you a statement of the amt. [amount?] due her and at what time. She is a poor lonely woman deprived of her last daughter by the great destroyer death, and lives by herself now in her 82 year. Judge of her distressed situation in a land of strangers and not having an income that would buy her fuel in this country. She has felt her forlorn situation keenly and having retained all her faculties render her grief the more poignant. In expressing my disappointment at the small progress made by the boys, no [?] or intent to be imputed to you. I had paid for their improvement and I am and was always satisfied as little as it could be done for in Belfast. It was therefore very reasonable that I should feel any disappointment on they understood nothing of grammar, nor could spell three words in twenty in the dictionary and test their memory. Nor could any of them tell me where Liverpool, London or Paris, Harve [Le Harve?] or Bourdaux [Bordeaux?] lay or what country they were in. This you must allow is vexatious and showed great inattention both in themselves and their masters. The assurances of my good mother are not necessary that you disposed of the funds intrusted [entrusted?] to your care in a proper manner. Both William and Harper had been in delicate health before I left Augusta. My last letter states William to be well but Harper in bad health. I am informed from William's conversation he will encourage some of his connections to come out to this country. His doing so would be very improper and in case he does so he must leave my employ, as such conduct in one not calculated to give advice of a correct nature, or capable to earn support would be viewed by me as very improper. It #PAGE 2 requires people of good property to come here to be comfortable. A great number who arrived at Charleston shortly before I left home has died of the yellow fever which now rages there, and I am sorry to add that but a few cities on the Atlantic states have been free of it. I was in Baltimore ten days ago and it was carrying off some daily. I hastened from it with all speed. Were you to witness the distress now here and in all the other seaports of poor emigrants from Ireland, your heart would bleed for their forlorn situation, destitute of money, friends and hope - they sicken and fall into and early and sorrowful tho [though?] too often an [?] grave. My uncle Arthur is here and well. All our other friends are well. William Harper is in Providence and will be here in a few days; his health is better. Wishing you every happiness, I remain with affectionate love to Jane and all family, John Campbell |
