| Title: | Philip Formby, Dunton Colorado to Mrs Myles L Formby, England |
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| ID | 1079 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Formby, Philip/18 |
| Year | 1901 |
| Sender | Formby, Philip |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | miner |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Dunton, Colorado, USA |
| Destination | Goring on Thames, Oxfordshire, England |
| Recipient | Carrissima, Mrs Myles L. Formby |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | brother and sister in law? |
| Source | T 2404/2: Copied by Permission of Wing Commander Myles Formby, Dundaig House, Mascoquin, County Londonderry #TYPE EMG Philip Formby, Dunton, Dolores Co.[County?], Colorado, America , to "My Dear Carrisima", Mrs Myles L. Formby, Goring on Thames, Oxford, [ |
| Archive | Public Record Office,Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007034 |
| Date | 23/6/1901 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 19:07:1990 TSFS#CREATE created 20:11:1991 WJC inpu |
| Word Count | 631 |
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| Transcript | To: Mrs Myles L Formby Goring on Thames Oxon [Oxfordshire?] England From: Dunton Dolores Co[unty?]. Colo[rado?]. June 23 1901 My dear Carrisima I was indeed sorry to hear of poor Roger's death, I think it is very sad and hard to see a promising way out off [of?] just as he has made a good start in life and is full of high hopes and ambition, but I suppose we have to take it as it comes, it must have been a hard blow to you all at home and also to poor Hugo who I suppose will miss him as he would his right arm. I did not write to enquire about it as though by a casual reference in a letter of Cz [Cousin?] Anne's I had known of the event for some time, seeing no one had written me even a line about it from Goring I could hardly think of was a fact. I hear from Regi also that Lonnie is in S[outh?]. Africa I sincerely trust that he may be preserved in the hour of danager, I have no news of special intrest life out West continues to be of the strenuous order of things. I am working as a miner, I get fair pay but the air is bad and I have to work at night which i do not like as I cannot sleep well in the day time I work from 6p.m. to 3a.m. and have to walk home a mile, the mines here have the drawback of being full of a heavy gas which inflames the eyes and makes one nearly blind at times But the family have to be fed etc and so I have to earn wages at something - I wish it it (sic) were so I could work on my own mine where the air is much better, but though it is getting a better property right along the mineral in it is not yet rich Enough to pay for treatment - Our hotel we have let at fair figures for 3 years and as things in this camp at last appear to be getting substantically better it may come out alright yet Two lots of capitalists have already started on undertaking here that will increase the No [number?] of men employed in the camp from 75 - now to probably 200 - 300 men I am sorry to say that as things are looking up it appears certain that I shall have to send my wife and children out, (I suppose to England) as Myttie seems to be steadily losing her health and less and less able to do what comparatively little she has to do - the principal trouble is an ag[g?]ravated form of Prolapsus which will need not only thorough treatment - but also a complete rest which she cannot get here, as it is not possible to even get help to do our washing and a doctor will charge not less than 6- to 7- to just make a single visit - Myttie has had a patient of her own for nearly 6 weeks a man was brought here with his hands nearly blown off with Dynamite and as he had no funds the D[octo?]r came once and that the man has his hands and his life from blood poisoning is to her credit entirely, it was a disgusting subject to handle with no pay and sparse thanks I am glad to say that the little girls are strong and well but I wish they were away from contact with the American children here as they seem to have a particular faculty for acquiring all that is objectionable in the native speech Well dear Carrisima hoping this will find you all well and fairly happy With my best love to my Father yourself and the girls I am yours Very affectionately Philip Formby |
