| Title: | [N.B.Smyth?] New Orleans, to [Dr Andrew Smyth?] [Donemana?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3003 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Natalie Bouligny/9 |
| Year | 1908 |
| Sender | Bouligny Smyth, Nathalie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Andrew Wood |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | wife-husband |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Brendan O'Reilly, O'Reilly's Bar & Restaurant, Main Street, Dromara |
| Archive | Original Held by Above Donor |
| Doc. No. | 9902173 |
| Date | 21/11/1908 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 25:02:99. |
| Word Count | 1640 |
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| Transcript | address all letters to the company. cable address hartley new york. M. HARTLEY COMPANY UMC sole representative of REMINGTON trade mark trade mark THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. representative THE REMINGTON ARMS CO. J. F. WOOD, LeCOMPTE, LA. 313-315 BROADWAY, NEW YORK New Orleans- Saturday, Nov 21 '08 My dear Doc Arthe ' wrote to you on our arrival in New York. The Columbia landed at 5.30 p.m. Sunday & we took the midnight express that night from N.Y. [New York?] arriving here Tuesday at 8.30. The family met us at the station & I drove up to [Taori's?]. They were all more than glad to see us. Arthemise has invited us to stay with her. She is fitting Arthe ' out & launching her into society as her niece & god child. She seems to be delighted with the child as also her uncle Albert who cannot say enough about her. So much for the family [news?] now to business issues. I saw my brother in law at the bank the next day of my arrival. He was very kind but seemed to take very little stock in the ultimate results, money results, to be obtained from the [Eldorado?] He thinks the claims of McCan [McCann?] & Conery [Connery?] with the interest added will swallow up everything. He advised me to be diplomatic with John & Gurley & try & get out of them all the information I could - I did so - said you replied & kissed him, though I felt like a Judas - later on however I can have my revenge. John seemed very nervous. I never saw him so disturbed. He is evidently much perturbed & I hope he will be more so. He read me the enclosed letter, (I have made a copy of the copy he let me have to send it to you) the other I am taking to Beckwith & to Albert on Monday. They were neither of them here to day. I saw Mr Beckwith who has grown old & thin but is still the same otherwise - with a first class head for all legal points. He was very kind & told me that on your account & my own he would do all in his power for me. He said it looked badly. That he would not be associated with Morgan Gurley for he did not think him straight & told me of some incidents he knew about him - as to Rivers Richardson he said it was shocking to have employed him, as he was about to be disbarred for cheating & swindling. Your old opponent Bradford of the Canal Bank has had to go to jail for cheating & stealing as also some others concerned against us. This is by the bye Beckwith, gave me the advice to try & smooth matters with the enemy & get all the information I could from them. He wants to see a copy of the power of attorney you sent to M.G. because there are two paid v - me that can be revoked & one that cannot, but he added, " with that man Richardson he would not let the chance slip " & he fears you have signed away your power irrevocably. In fact John Smyth said the cable [was?] the revocation [nice?] any good & you had only affronted himself & Gurley. I told Albert you said you would do what he thought best & vest the power by cable first with whom he thought best. It seems they have made your claim into a syndicate called the Leader Realty Co with 250 shares, which are placed so: Dr A.W. Smyth 247 shares M. Gurley 1 Randolph Gurley 1 John Smyth 1 John Smyth says this syndicate is only a paper transaction made one year & a half ago. I met Morgan Gurley on [Common?] Street & was very amiable as I was told to be. I told him I wanted him to do me a favour in letting me have a copy of the power of attorney. He said I could " have all the papers I wanted as there was nothing to hide " but I have not got the copy yet. John Smyth wanted to know from Arthe ', who called to get the papers I enclose, if you had yet appointed any one else as attorney? She said she didn't know & he told her to ask me. I am afraid we are in a bad boat for God sake whatever is [easier?] to you to do do it immediately. This is all I know at present. I am going to see Albert & Beckwith on Monday morning. In speaking of your litigations with the Canal Bank, Beckwith seemed to think that Ward Gurley had mismanaged the business. Albert said the three Gurleys had each had a " whack at it," & it seems it was Hughes Gurley who let the land interest I wrote to Albert about at first to lapse. John Smyth is making money hand over fist. He has two sign boards up with his name, so one each side the entrance. I felt like tearing them down when I thought for lack of one that you should have put up in what straights [straits?] & misery we were! Good bye my dear I hope you are keeping well. I have a bad cold but I stood the fatigue & the trip better than I had dreamt I would. It is hot as the lower regions & except that I ride about in my rich sister's carriage I would be dead with the heat. Do let me know anything that you can think of & what is your opinion of the news so far. Write to Beckwith & thank him. I think he would like it. Arthe ' is well & at the theatre to night with all the family. Yours Nato (7) P.S. Sunday Morning. I have marked with an x the history of the claim of the syndicate who is laying siege to a large part of the lands in question. Mark that there is much of the same history as the negro woman in the Canal Bank Claim. Some spurious thing got up in the same way. The name of the syndicate is not given though its history is. Nor is the name of the would be purchaser for the $10,000 netting you $5,000. Beckwith said it was important to find out who that purchaser was but John Smyth would not tell me. In the list of the shareholders in the mock syndicate (paper transaction according to J.S.) you are the holder of 247 shares, Morgan Gurley 1, Randolph G 1 & J S 1. There is no question of these being bought not only you with your 247 shares. Probably when you are shut out & give up title they still expect you to do, & as Albert may advise me to have you do, these shares would be located & retained to bear future big money. Young Albert Baldwin seems to me too much in favour of the gang. When I wired him from N.Y. [New York?] to meet me at the station he informed M.G. immediately of the fact. What was that for? I could have informed the gang myself of my coming if I had so desired - again he seems to repeat verbatim all that the gang say, & JS said that " they should have got the Baldwins to cable to you instead of M.G. " I wonder if A.B. [Albert Baldwin?] Jr is lying a spec [speck?] in connivance with the gang & persuading his father that if we dont take the offer of $5,000 we will get nothing. I dont like his manner & the confidence there seems to exist between him & the gang. I dont know whether the father is behind the scenes wire pulling. If so we are badly off. Albert may be honest in his idea that $5,000 is better than nothing. I will get no money help in that quarter & without money what can we do ? I am going to see Beckwith to morrow before I see A.B. [Albert Baldwin?] When I proposed taking a lawyer as you had said A.B. [Albert Baldwin?] Sr said it would do no good but I have got Beckwith any how . He Albert does not know I have spoken to Beckwith yet & I dont know how he will take it. I shall go to see young Robert Marr, the son of old Judge Marr & find out about that decision against the Conerys [Connery?] & McCanns that you told me we had gained for you. I have a terrible cold & can hardly speak which is a disadvantage in interviewing You had better make no answer to what they write or cable unless signed Beckwith or Nato. I am afraid of the gangs using the Baldwin name as they did in the cable about your health. A good battle line is nothing to this sorry [danger?] skirmishing & sharp-shooting behind bushes. I enclose you a letter from Morgan Gurley to me which missed me on the high seas, but of which he sent a copy to my sisters. From it you will see that they thought the cables, one signed Smyth the other to Albert signed Nato were both from me. I told you that they had. Send my letters direct to Arthemise, Esplanade Ave & Desbigny St. I will get them quicker than from A [Arthur?] Baldwin. This is all I can think of. Will write as soon as some move is made & after seeing Beckwith & Albert Nato It struck me that John was reading a lesson written out for him in that letter from Morgan Gurley. When I came in he took it out of his desk & confined himself to reading it I was very amiable - kept my eyes open & mouth shut. the date of the letter is supposed to be Oct 30th. |
