| Title: | J. Mulligan, New Brunswick, Canada, to J. Mulligan, Banbridge, Co.Down |
|---|---|
| ID | 1920 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Mulligan, J/97 |
| Year | 1829 |
| Sender | Mulligan, J |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New Brunswick, Canada |
| Destination | Banbridge, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Mulligan, James |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | nephew-uncle |
| Source | D1757/2/2: Presented by Mrs J.Todd Martin, Cushendall, Co.Antrim |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9502084 |
| Date | 09/07/1829 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 09:02:1995. |
| Word Count | 821 |
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| Transcript | To: Mr James Mulligan, Lisnasligan [Lisnasliggan?] Banbridge Ireland New Brunswick July 9th 1829 Dear Uncle You requested me in your last to write to you frequently, in compliance with this request I write to you again though I have not yet received any answer to my last. I will not however insist on your returning letter for letter, And though I would be glad if you would write as often as practicable I will consider it my duty to continue the correspondence on my side even should you remit it still more than you have done. I have been informed by a letter from William of Robert's death, an event which your last letter and his lead me to anticipate as not far distant; and of the state of his own health which seems to me highly calculated to incite alarm. I hope my apprehensions may prove unfounded, but I do not like to hear of one who has to subract [subtract?] weekly to so much encition [exertion?] lungs attacked by a long and severe cold. I have advised him to take a journey if he should be so threatened again. And I think his friends at home would do well to urge him to the same cause. I wrote a letter to Robert in April last, which I suppose that some of my friends have got, in which I sent all the information which I could procure respecting William Dobbin, which amounts to this I can hear nothing of his history since I saw him in the spring of the year 1824. His old aquaintance Wm [William?] Gordon in Rochester is apprehensive that he is dead. When I saw him He talked of visiting Ireland some time soon. I have as yet received no answer to the letter which I wrote at your request to David MacGill & family. I have begun to despair of ever receiving any from them. Since I came to this country I have written to them at least half a dozen letters to which I have received but one answer that which I transmitted to you. I will write again if you wish it. I enpect [expect?] to send this by Mr Demsey [Dempsey?] whom you will no doubt see & who will be able to give you much entertainment and satisfaction respecting this country in general, and any situation prospects Ac. Now if you were to send a letter for them by him it would be as certain to reach them as mine. I think you wrote to me that you sent a letter to them by some person who was going far back in the country. Now this was by no means so good a way to have sent it to the letter bag of a ship. The chance of it being lost by a private conveyance or of its being forgotten or neglected is ten times greater than of its being miscarried if you send it by the ship. When you send a letter by anyone coming out here, encept [except?] he is about to go direct to the person to whom you are writting [writing?, just desire them to go put it in the letter beg of the ship. This gives the bearer less trouble and increases much the probability of your letter reaching its correct destination. I have nothing new to communicate respecting my circumstances. Mr Demsey [Dempsey?] can give you as I have said full satisfaction on that subject & to him I refer you. I suppose you feel very little interest in our political squabbles on this side the Atlantic. I take very little myself - so much so that I have not yet become a naturalised citizen though I might have enjoyed that privilege five years ago. As far as I can see it is not likely ever to be my wish to take any practical past in the politics of this country. Those who take the most active part in them and who are most successful in struggling for a few [crimils?] from the nation mal treasury are generally men contemptible not only in the eyes of foreigners like me - but of all good & intelligent citizens - The fact is that the rude, the noisy, the arrogant, the unprincipled &c generally rule the roast [roost?] - And the prudent, moderate, and well informed and virtuous part of the community have to look on with as much equanimity as they can command. The present is a time of considerable pecuniary embarrasment here owing in a considerable degree to the failure of last years crop - Our manufacturers are nearily as loud in their complaints as those in England notwithstanding all the advantages which it was supposed they would reap from the late tariff. I intend if possible to send some pamphlets with Mr Demsey [Dempsey?], of which I wish all my friends to have a reading of as many as may interest them. I am affectionately Your nephew |
