| Title: | Samuel Kerr, New York, to Robert Buchanan, Milford. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1609 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Kerr, Samuel/93 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Kerr, Samuel |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New York, USA |
| Destination | Millford, Co. Donegal? Ireland |
| Recipient | Buchanan, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Samuel Kerr, New York, to Robert Buchanan, Milford. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9705311 |
| Date | 19/11/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 23:05:97. |
| Word Count | 518 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | 454 West 43 St. New York 19 Nov. 92. Dear Bob:- Your welcome letter of the 8th recd. [received?] this evg. [evening?]. I think I see you when you got the "fish", it was the same one we had in the shop last summer. I sent one paper to you but sent it to Millford Co. Derry & did not think of it until after I had put it into the letterbox. Did you get it? We got badly left on the election. Poor Ben lost his job and his wife both. I feel sorry for him. I never was more surprised in my life at anything than the way things went. However the Republicans are not dead by any means, they are already planning how to come out ahead 4 years from now. We don't know such a word as "Surrender". There have been some changes round 28St. this last week or so. Murphy took another huff - Young Sloan & him had some fall out, & he put on his coat & went home - just the day after Election day, & both the Sloans & Mr Y---? say he will never be there again, but I have heard that often before + would rather see it before placing much confidence in it. He was not out of the shop before Young Sloan came to me + told me of it, + that he wanted never to look after humpy's floor too. So I have had my hands full since, but things seem to go along smoothly so far. They all got on to him going out to the corner so often, + when anybody wanted to see him he was not to be found. But he always had some excuse, he was to Newman's or the [turners?] or some other place. But they caught on to him being half tight most of the time & is terribly down on him. So I don't know how it will end, always before when he took the huff they paid him full time, but this time he was only paid up to the time he got, & that don't look promising for him. Richd [Richard?] & Wm [William?] Jn--? are both well + working away as usual, there are 6 of us upstairs & 8 or 9 on the 2nd floor: The weather has been very nice so far, no cold only for a day or so & then it turned warm again, we had a snow shower about a week ago, but it soom melted. You don't seem to care much for the old sod, well I suppose you are lonely & in a manner lost, as you can't know many people there. It is all well enough to go there on a visit, but I don't think I would care to stay. I think I have told you all the news which would interest you, don't forget to write once in a while & let us know how you are. Many thanks for the papers you sent, - I can't tell how many I got from you. Yours as ever Saml [Samuel?] Kerr |
