| Title: | J. S. [U.S.?] to Robert Buchanan, New York. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3080 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Swan, Jim/89 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | Swan, Jim |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Freemason |
| Origin | somewhere in the New York area |
| Destination | New York, USA |
| Recipient | Buchanan, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D/1473: Presented by K. Baxter, Milford, Co. Donegal. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9705305 |
| Date | 01/01/1890 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 23:05:97. |
| Word Count | 418 |
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| Transcript | Sunday Morning Dear Robert Last night when I came home, Maggie had got home before me, fixed herself and went out again, she did not come home until the gas was out and I had gone to bed, about eleven oclock. During the time Maggie was out, Joe called whilst I was at Dinner, he told Miss Gilliland and I that Maggie has not been at work a single day last week, that she and another girl have been on the town all week, and that if she brought home any money to pay her board, it has been earned on the streets, and not at work. Joe says whilst he was on his route yesterday serving his customers with ice, he saw Maggie and the girl walking the streets and two fellows with them, Joe got into a row with the fellows and the other Iceman came to his assistance when there was a regular fight on the street a Policeman came and arrested one of the fellows that were with the girls, the other got away. Joe said he called last night to give Maggie a whipping, but I told him there was no use in doing that, I have said nothing to her yet, until I go over to New York and see whether she has ever been to work. When she came to me from Pecks after night and had no where [nowhere?] to go, what could I do but take her in and shelter her and put her on the way of helping to make her living, but she is so head-strong that she will do just as she pleases, last Sunday she was out with that girl all the afternoon, then after night the girl called for her again, I told her not to go out, but she went, this morning I see she has her head all filled with newspaper curls. I expect she is for the road again today, I have paid her board now for two weeks, and have given her a dollar and a half a week for car money to New York. She leaves the house every morning at 7 and gets back at night about the same hour, but if it is on the streets, and not at work she is, her residence with me will be very brief, Miss Gilliland told me she is very anxious to go and see her Mother, I have had nothing but trouble with the lot, and all for no good. J.S. |
