| Title: | Robert Moore, Portadown, to Joseph Searight, Philadelphia |
|---|---|
| ID | 1871 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Moore, Robert/38 |
| Year | 1853 |
| Sender | Moore, Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Portadown, Co. Armagh |
| Destination | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | Searight, Joseph |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends, business |
| Source | D. 2794/1/2/78: Presented by H.H. Montgomery, 4 Kensington Gdns., Belfast 5. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9510059 |
| Date | 01/04/1853 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 12:10:95. |
| Word Count | 933 |
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| Transcript | Portadown 1st April 1853 Dear Joseph I have duly received your favour of [7th?] [ulto?] and note contents. If I had received it 3 March since it would have put an end to my shipping as I have no wish to be the cause of you loosing [losing?] any more money. I had quite enough for me to loose [lose?] œ40 - œ50 on the [transaction?] ( which I asure [assure?] you I have done) without this additional loss to you it realy [really?] oppressed me but I hope your friend will bear his part of it, the matter being a deal I did not mind a small loss so you had kept yourself all right the [Blue?] Linens are [Buying?] 7« to 8 here at present and the Brown [___?] bring nearly as high a figure in the Lingden market so that it is a bad job all together [altogether?] and in future if you cannot sell goods at a profit, so as to protect yourself better to sell none as it would be quite out of the question for me to indemnify you as I have already said my object in sending out those goods was to give you an oppertunity [opportunity?] of trying your hand at the Corn Trade as I had so often heard others here say thay would send you goods if you were doing anything in that way- but I realy [really?] am not in a position just now to loose [lose?] any more money and hope that in future you will make up what we both have lost. I hope [she?] [is?] [well?] doing [well?] [A?] [J?] is thankful to you for some [__ales?] you have sent us but cannot say how she will like them as she has not seen them as yet. About the [I Gee?] affair I cannot say as I know little about it, this I know [____?] got of it yet and I have got no thing out of it since last letter [___?] and I think if we could get rid of it wd [would?] be well, I wish you would say what you would take for your Interest in it that I might buy and dispose of it in some way that the proceeds might be applied to. Square the old matter that is Lying [ay?] [&?] you say what you think should be done a Portion of the rent should go to pay the interest of that Ac [account?] I will speak to Mr [M?] and let you know how the matter stands. Yours hopefully Robert Moore I am half asleep it being 12 0C but I must say a little more. We are going ahead in the Breeding Line here still I have got another Love [10?] [days?] Since and I am thankful to be able to say that A J though still delicate is considerably better than I expected her to be as her health had been bad for some time. We [Dare?] [____?] to be so particularly as others stout and strong are falling around us. I helped to bury Mrs [____?] after a very short illness. I may also say that Elizabeth M now Mrs Robb has lost her first born last week. See that you take care of yourself. When your letter arrived I had a lot of [___?] goods [ready?] for you and as they are prepared for your market I still think it better to send them hoping they will do better realy [really?] if they had not been [finished?] and that I had led you to believe I would send them. I will not do so I am so vexed by your present information they are 135 ps 3/4 and 4/4 Pillow Linens 79 of them mine and 31 W [William?] Montgomery's. We thought to send them by the Citty [City?] of Manchester but they were not ready and Wm [William?] think better to send them by the Mail Steamers and not insure them. I think they will go by one of Colin's Steamers on Wednesday 11th but we will write from Belfast today and enclose [Consuls?] Certificate and Invoice and all particulars but we think better to forward those samples by the present mail but we should be late in [Belfast?] for Saturdays Boat I will send you with this cloth the other sample booked as you have directed me and they will represent any goods of the class that I may send in for So you keep two for yourself and I may now say that if the present transaction should prove satisfactory I am in a position to send you 100 ps each month or more if you can open a market for them I have been selling 200 ps per month of them Brown . I had four diferent [different?] lots of them ready for you but got a good price for them at home and though [thought?] best to [sell?] I saw an invoice of them Same as these to a Dublin House this Week at 16 Nett and considering the advance in Wages and yarn here I think you should net 16 for the 5/7 & 20 for the 6/4 at least. I know you will do the best you can and if it is in my power to [send?] you I will [on?] the Back of this I will give you some idea of what we are Sending as this Letter may [reach?] you before [in?] goods, and I will request you to write as soon as you may see them and say what you think. Robert |
