| Title: | George Taylor, New York, to Alexander Taylor [Belfast?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3083 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Taylor, George/16 |
| Year | 1903 |
| Sender | Taylor, George |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | businessman |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Taylor, Alexander |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | T 2296/5: Copied by Permission of Mrs M. Cotton Taylor, Staghall, WhitewellRd., Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. #TYPE EMG George Taylor, 114 Wall St., New York to his Brother Alexander Taylor, 29th May 1903. |
| Archive | Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 8910013 |
| Date | 29/5/1903 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 12:10:1989 LT created 23:01:1990 CMN input 24:01:1 |
| Word Count | 750 |
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| Transcript | TAYLOR & TAUBE, 114 WALL STREET, TELEPHONE 955 JOHN. Friday New York, May 29 1903 My dear Alex, Your letter of 4 also one from Mary the previous weeks, [both?] came as welcome surprises & I cannot tell you how glad I was to hear of you all particularly of mother. I never thought of an exchange of letters, whether I owed you or you me, for I have been on the anxious bench all this year about Kates health. After her escape from pneumonia, she had more frequent attacks of acute asthma, than ever & up till the week before Easter we faced a case of heart failure. One doctor who is also a very celebrated surgeon ( & [the?] [son?] of our old Physican who died this spring) took the bull by the horns, ordered a trained nurse for kate to build her up - taking one week to do it - on Good Friday had two other surgeons at the house - & cut out the cartridge that had grown to obstruct the passage both sides of the [nose?]. The operation was performed in twenty minutes or less She came out of the anasthetic [anaesthetic?] all right & now Dr Taylor can tell you that she has not had a twinge of asthma since & looks ten years younger. The wound is not quite healed yet, but she is very well & has her old spirits back again. In addition to Kates information - my own comes next - My Landlord would not make necessary improvements on our house when I asked him not only that he asked £300 per year more & I called his bluff. Before our time was up he would have given us anything & possibly reduced the rent, but my mind was made up - that I would give the family a years rest from housekeeping & we are home at the Hotel Castleton which you know - & [never?] were more comfortable in our lives - or in a better position to entertain Adela & [yourself?] during the Yacht races - now why I did not answer your last letter more promptly. I fully intended to give you a surprise & go over on the Campa[nia?] tomorrow stay a week & come back by same steamer. I am not only disappointed but broken hearted at not being able to go. [Taube?] go[es?] to Stockholm during June on company business which will be very important to me in the dollar & cent line - so I must wait. The sugar situation is also very much helped & my pr[esence?] is also needed on that account- I have [just?] written the following cable to - Taylor Owenocork Belfast- [Love?] congratulations mother birthday Give her ten gold from me - George. This is a [person?]able present but while our Company business is very prosperous - no coal has reached the insiders yet - we are [receiving?] profits to double our plant & even then we will not be able to supply the demand. I hope you will understand my cable & [give?] her 10 pounds. she is never absent from my thoughts. I enclose [Dlb?] to [cover?] - Kindly tell Mary I will write her next week. Tell her also I will take of the Taylor boy when he turns up - as yet no word of him. Glad to hear you are all well & that you & Jack are at the wheel again. Dont forget to have your [nose?] examined & that the air passages are clear - if your - [case?] is like Kates - the operation should give you new life. Stewarts still in Pittsburgh will finish about Septr [September?] Blanche and heasil [Hazel?] are still with us - but I hear there is something doing - I dont interfere in that department. Dorothy & Margaret are very well & are known as my team - They take entire charge of me. I am very Well - never was better - I play golf when I get a chance & am less tired after 36 holes than any of the boys - Well Gerty & Barron were down for dinner last Saturday - all well [Jim?] [has?] [got?] another start & I think in a fair way to do well He is certainly looking well & in good spirits - Hugh I see weekly & [prod?] him up all I can - but ambition is absent - Love to all at [Owenocork?] & to you & yours hurr[ied?]ly Your attached Bro [Brother?] Geo [George?] Taylor |
