| Title: | [?], Peabody, to Audley [Brown?], [U.S.?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 2094 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Peabody/13 |
| Year | 1877 |
| Sender | Peabody |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | prob. Audley Brown |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Margaret Graham Browne, Rathneeny*, Laghy, Co. Donegal. 073-21816. mgtgraham@tinet.ie |
| Archive | Margaret Graham Browne |
| Doc. No. | 2006167 |
| Date | 10/06/1877 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:07:00. |
| Word Count | 740 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | $$H12 Part of the Margaret Graham Browne Catalogue$$H Peabody June 10 77 My Dear fraind [friend?] audly [Audley?] i take this obercunity [opportunity?] of writing you these few lins [lines?] to let you know that i am well at pesend [present?] hoping to find you in the seam [same?] dear audly [Audley?] i hop [hope?] you will excuse me for not writting [writing?] to you before now but time after time pssd [passed?] away that i did not write but still i often think of you and days gone by i sopose [suppose?] you no [know?] that i was back from the [West?] and robert we come in march i did not roo [rue?] my jurny [journey?] i maid [made?] out better last winter than ever i did a winter before i wood [would?] not hav [have?] come back only bob [Robert?] was taken [taking?] the eagg [ague?] again so he wanted to come back and i did not lik [like?] to stop alone drear [dear?] audly [Audley?] i supose [suppose?] you wont [won't?] wright [write?] to me when i did not write to you before now but you no [know?] how a fellow is mocket [nocket?] around here i hop [hope?] you will write to [me?] and i will tell you [all?] the news off [of?] the country but i supose [suppose?] you are to [too?] busy tossen [tossing?] diches [ditches?] i here [hear?] you are making great farmning [farming?] but i winder [wonder?] you are not geting [getting?] marred [married?] but i supose [suppose?] you are coming back for dealeny [Delaney?] She cant [can't?] cant [can't?] marred [marry?] yet but bob [Robert?] and hir [her?] is meking [making?] great [sparks?] and [holning?] is alive yet i am goan [going?] over to work for [Stocker?] this wook [week?] he was after me to [two?] or 3 times but we are not true [through?] yet we will be true [through?] this week i supose [suppose?] you herd [heard?] about him feling [failing?] he feled [failed?] last march and he maid [made?] no setelment [settlement?] yet the crediters [creditors?] is runing [running?] the factury [factory?] yet and the [they?] pay the men 8 and 9 dollars a week and i hav [have?] 10 a week dear audly [Audley?] tims [times?] is getting to be first reat [rate?] the [taners?] is resed [raised?] a d or 2 a week and i must tell you some thing about [Brickinok?] dick [Richard?] is by the month at 80d there is none but Sam and Suney [Sonny?] there to i go that is all will be in it but he has 20 men in the other yard and wants more and cant [can't?] find them Bleekly was the first that hired men he hired Brother Rob [Robert?] first man at 23d and sam and Suney [Sonny?] but he did not want them for a week afeer [after?] he hired them so [dick?] had maid [made?] no bargen [bargain?] with [J?] [S?] before that so he was wild for fere [fear?] he wood [would?] get the B by the thousend [thousand?] that he wood [would?] get no men so Stocker give [gave?] them 25 and the [they?] left Bleekly [Bleakley?] and he cant [can't?] get a man at any pay bob [Robert?] and big dick [Richard?] has to cery [carry?] of [off?] all the [lime?] so he has to pay bob [Robert?] 26 now and dick [Richard?] the [they?] struck for it and got it i was over yesterday bleekly [Bleakley?] offered me 27 if i wood [would?] go to day and cery [carry?] on dick [Richard?] harris is making for newhall he had 20 frenchmen and yesterday he had not one man in the yard he is gone [going?] to Canada for men he wanted to no [know?] if you were comen [coming?] back he wanted you to strack [strike?] for him so that is all the news i can send you about [Brickming?] So write soon and let me no [know?] all the news you can tell me all about the foks [folks?] in the mountain and about the girls and boys or how you lik [like?] home G. Griffith is well but wors [worse?] than ever every way he is in the uper [upper?] yard so is J. Mongmory [Montgomery?] and tom david lynn and long Joney [Johnny?] Stuard [Stewart?] from Brooklyn N Y [New York?] all the [swantens?] send there [their?] loce [love?] to you in the kindest manner so good yo write soon A B E East Saugust [Saugus?] Mass. [Massachusetts?] (* 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") |
