| Title: | [G. Griffith?] Brooklyn, to [Audley Brown?]. [?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1275 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Griffith, George/24 |
| Year | 1877 |
| Sender | Griffith, George |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | factory worker |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | Audley |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers? |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Margaret Graham Browne, Rathneeny*, Laghy, Co Donegal, 073-21816. mgtgraham@tinet.ie |
| Archive | Margaret Graham Browne |
| Doc. No. | 2006166 |
| Date | 28/11/1877 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:07:00. |
| Word Count | 412 |
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| Transcript | $$H10 Part of the Margaret Graham Browne Catalogue$$H Broklyn [Brooklyn?] Nov.28th 1877 Dear Audley In answer to your verry [very?] welcom [welcome?] letter the arrival off [of?] this will find you and all my friends in the enjoyment of good health. I am working in the Brooklyn W. [White?] lead at nine dollars per week and I am working in the mill and I dont [don't?] like it How Andy [Andrew?] got attending bar was we called in to this place to have a glass of ail [ale?] and that is how he got the job. Work is very slack the [there?] are lots of men walking around. Keat [Kate?] Stewart is married to Davis and is living in New-York the other letter I sent to you I was drunk when I rote [wrote?] to you I dont [don't] remember what I put in it. I would not allow Sam to com [come?] to Brooklyn for I have spent every cent I brought with me I mead [made?] a bad exchange when I left there I heard that Elliza [Eliza?] Fassett and Harron is married since I left. let me no [know?] to I put sum [some?] of her friends from blowing [sic] Andrew got Sam['s?] letter he told him to try Molden and Woburn and the bleachery for work for this is the last coach but the herse [hearse?] the half of the Whitelead men is ded [dead?] since I left it Charls [Charles?] Cotter got lite [light?] in the head and he was sent to hospital and he leped [leapt?] out off [of?] the window and lit [landed?] on the iron spikes of the fence and the watchman got him hinging [hanging?] by the neck on the fence so that ended Cotter Sixty threes is brick [bricked?] up it is gon [gone?] and the most of them is gon [gone?] away only a few [sic] Andy told Sam to rite [write?] soon to him again I have nothing streange [strange?] to tell you of only the odd fellows are going to write to you them selves I guess you had word before now and if not Joseph Wirling will have it brought forward again so that is all god nows [knows?] how I will get the winter in in [sic] this dam [damned?] pleace [place?] and I think we will soon have a stop and I want you to have ten dollars only to send me if I [stained] it. I am afraid [stained] will before the winter is over write soon G Griffith 130 Bridge st [street?] Brooklyn (* The owner of these documents has informed us that this townland is spelt "Rathneeny" and that the older spellings of it are "Roniney" or "Raneny". In the "Index To The Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland" the spelling is "Raneany") |
