| Title: | A. W. Smyth, Dunnamanagh to Miss Arthe Smyth, England. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2555 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Andrew Woods/12 |
| Year | 1906 |
| Sender | Smyth, Andrew Wood |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | surgeon |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Dunnamanagh, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Kent, England |
| Recipient | Smyth, Arthe |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | father-daughter |
| Source | Doc. No. 148: Copyright Retained by Brendan O'Reilly, O'Reilly's Bar & Restaurant, Main St., Dromara, Co. Down. |
| Archive | Original Held by Above Donor. |
| Doc. No. | 9809283 |
| Date | 17/12/1906 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 13:10:98. |
| Word Count | 298 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | DUNAMANAGH [Dunnamanagh?] DE 17 06 [Postmark 17 Dec 1906?] Miss Arthe Smyth Rosacre Beersted Maidstone Kent England Ardcame 17, Decem 06 [17 Dec 1906?] Dear Arthe Your letter came to hand while I was in Derry for three days waiting for the Amerian Consul to have papers filled and sworn to, in connection with the lands in New Orleans which I thought Mr Baldwin was attending to for you. Why Mr. Baldwin did not look after them I cannot for the life of me understand. He could have sold them any [sic] that he did not do which was very fortunate as it turned out. One hundred pounds was the offer five years ago when you and your mother took the papers from me and sent them, I understood, to Mr Baldwin. The lands are now estimated to be worth five hundred times more than they were worth five years ago, and if you owned them free of the costs connecting with the recovery of them from tax sales and public administrator's attempt to take charge of them &c. &c., you would be a rich woman indeed. Your aunt [Sep?] will write you all about it. she knows it all. I enclose you a letter from Joshua A Pell [Peel?] & Son which will give you an idea of the case. The letter you will please return to me at once (or in a mail soon) as I may have to send it to New Orleans. The Public Administrator is trying hard to be put in possession of the lands. The letter to Pell [Peel?] & Son is a part of his ploy. My nephew John and Mr Gurley, - Morgan Gurley, - write me that they believe the administrator will fail and that it is to my interest that he should fail. Your father A. [Andrew?] W. Smyth It is said that a man who has many friends has no friend. |
