| Title: | Nicholson, Thomas to O'Brien, William, 1819 |
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| ID | 5959 |
| Collection | The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson] |
| File | quaker/10 |
| Year | 1819 |
| Sender | Nicholson, Thomas |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | Quaker |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | O'Brien, William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers-in-law |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 467 |
| Genre | correspondence, legal affairs, |
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| Transcript | New York 5th mo 1st 1819 Dear William I send thee herewith a letter which I reced a few days since from Belfast & ship Jno Dickinson which came to Abm Bell's address & I expect will return at 1st of 6th mo. If Anne or thee have any letters or parcels to forward it would be an eligible conveyance & I would have pleasure in putting them under safe care here. 1 duly received two letters from Jno Wright c/o Hector on first day last, and please tell him at any time I can be of service to him or any of you to command me. I have secured a second power of atty from Susanna Douglas which is better than the first & has W Murray (Provost of Dungannon) signature to it; and I should suppose that this would be sufficient & fully satisfactory to N. Holms, but wish to mention that in the situation I am now placed it would be out of my power to undertake a journey to Pittsburgh. After a long period of anxiety & wandering since I came to this country I have at length prospect of getting into business under rather favorable auspices; but as everything is not concluded I can say no further at present & such being the case you can readily conceive that a journey at this time would be more an injury than otherwise. Thou knows that I have to make exertions for more than myself & if energy be wanting in these times, every thing falls to the ground. I am thus particular so that thee and Anne may understand that it is not the will that now prevents me from setting out for Pittsburgh: to be of use in this affair wd be very gratifying indeed, for I conceive in this strange land, we who are relations by being exiles from our native Country, as well as by blood, should feel bound to keep up a closer intimacy than if it were otherwise. Whatever seems best in the case please write me. As you will have all the news by these letters from Ireland, I need not add anything from our letters, more than that our friends are all generally well. I did promise to write to Anne, which I have not forgotten: my excuse is the state of anxiety I have been in for some time past, which does not allow of much writing as one would desire. Tell me if you intend remaining near Philad - I hope you will. Remember me affectionately to Uncle and Aunt Greeves. My brother is just present and unites with me in dear love to Anne and thyself. I am thy truly affectionate Thomas Nicholson P.S. I hope that the little one is doing well |
