| Title: | [?], New York, to Hugh Donnan, Cahard, Co. Down, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 1933 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Murphy, William/41 |
| Year | 1873 |
| Sender | Murphy, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | shop assistant, delivery boy |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New York, USA |
| Destination | Saintfield, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Donnan, Hugh |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D 2795/5/2/2: |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9512073 |
| Date | 12/05/1873 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 07:12:95. |
| Word Count | 439 |
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| Transcript | INSUFFICIENT PAID Hugh Donnan Cahard ireland [Co. Down?] to be left in Care Of Andrew Wilson Saintfield [postmark] LISBURN JULY 26 [postmark] NEW YORK MAY 14 [postmark] SAINTFIELD JULY 28 May 12th May the 12th 1873 Dear Sir I write to let you know how we are getting along we stopped with my uncel [uncle?] too [two?] weeks we have got a house at seven dollars per month which is counted cheap here too [two?] days after I went to my uncels [uncle's] he started me to drive too [two?] horses in A spring wagon to deliver boxes through the towne [town?] which he has ten men making he is giving me ten dollars per week and says he wil [will?] give me mor [more?] if I stop on with him which i intend to do for I like the driving well he has got a pair of first rate horses which cost him nintey [ninety?] pounds of your money and he intends to have Another one horses are much the same price here as in ireland horses are in general of a better sort and temper here one man drives from too [two?] to six in a teame [team?] the sheets here are laid down with sails and the wagons made to fit the runs there is no waking all trotting at full speed. We have not regreted [regretted?] our coming here yet provisions here are much the same as in ireland beef is cheap here cloathing [clothing?] is higher but of a better sort the people live very well here the greater part of the womans [womens'?] work is cooking and working we had to get a store as there is no grates the woman bakes there [their?] own loaves and Eliza can bake as well as any of them we have had fine weather since we came here but we have got no great heat yet. Corry and the family have got a house in Pittsbourgh [Pittsburg?] the son is working in a foundry at ten dollars a week and he is working at the water works and Robert Edgar is working at eighteen dollars a week and are all in good health. We are all in good health pleas [please] write and let us know how you all are and let us know how all our friends ar [are?] getting along and what sort of a spring you have had . I have but little news to send you as I have been very bussy [busy] since i [I?] came but i [I?] will have more time now when we are got into a house houses are very hard to get here land is much dearer about Pittsburg nor about Belfast please let me know if you got my last letter I hope these few lines will find you all well |
