| Title: | Joseph Carswell, [Augusta ?], to "Dear Father & Mother, [?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 591 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Carswell, Joseph/56 |
| Year | 1824 |
| Sender | Carswell, Joseph |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Augusta, Georgia, Usa |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son-parents |
| Source | D/3305/4/4: Deposited by Dr. K. A. Miller. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9805353 |
| Date | 01/01/1824 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 14:05:98. |
| Word Count | 430 |
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| Transcript | Dear Father and Mother Think not it is without due premeditation we solicit your aprobation of an act as delicate as it is serious - delicate as it repects your own feelings and serious on the part of ourselves ; in as much as it is one which of all others requires to be approached, if with esteem, yet with a diffidence which will keep that esteem tardily in the rear of our judgement - and which requires to be executed with due deliberation and the utmost caution That we have formed an attachment and sealed that attachment with the most solemn obligations to unite it, is no longer to be concealed from you - Not doubting you will hestitate to sanction our wishes yet permit us (without presuming to dictate) barely to observe, that the errors which parents have fallen into by withholding their assent on such occassions, may be traced almost to infinity. Give ancient and moden philosophy a careful examination you will find that in all ages, the greatest philosophers and the wisest men agrued in opinion that "the first thing parents should consult in giving their children in marriage is certainly this inclination were due regard paid to this they argue, there would be fewer unhappy matches - there would be fewer keen recollections of unfortunate attachments which attend many to the grave, blunting through life their energies, rendering exertion without object, and success without enjoyment : closing up the avenues of the heart and rendering it morbidly sensative [sensitive ?] and timidly shrinking from the risque [risk ?] of repeating suffering - prejudicing it against the [___?] - and a thousand other evils of equal magnitude may be traced to the refusal of parents to sanction a congenial union - such has most often been the case of those dispasitions uncommonaly will adopted to the exercise of the kindest and best affections" We have appointed Wednesday the [__?] for the celebration of our nuptials - not doubting you will hesitate for a moment cheerfully to yield to our wishes we submit with the utmost confidence to your aprobation believe is with a due sense of duty and deference yours &c &c &c Joseph Carswell By all the pangs divided lovers feel That sweet possession only knows to heal By all the honours bordening over the deep Where fate and hope the hearts dominan keep I sware [swear?] should our parents disapprove Their smile or frown shall never change my love Impatient hope the midnight hath employed and led me to the Nymph my soul adored. |
