| Title: | Thos. Warnock, Cincinnati, To John M. Orr, [Chicago?]. |
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| ID | 3182 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Warnock, Thomas/43 |
| Year | 1847 |
| Sender | Warnock, Thomas |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | businessman |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Recipient | Orr, John M. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained By John McCleery, 80 Circular Rd, Belfast, BT4 2GD. |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9702141 |
| Date | 26/10/1847 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 10:02:97. |
| Word Count | 864 |
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| Transcript | Cincinnati 26 Oct 1847 My Dear John I received yours of the 10th on the 19th and would have written you in course but I thought it better to delay till the English Mail arrived to give you the benefit of any news that I might get. I got a letter yesterday one from Eliza & one from Margt [Margaret?] but there is very little news in them. they are all well at home just as we left them & Eliza says as dull as ever. Magt [Margaret?] went to Scotland on a visit to Mrs G. Patterson a week after I left home and has not yet returned she finds herself a good deal better. Eliza tells me you have sent your portrait home & that it is considered very like. Wee Tom has done the connubial with Miss Patterson at last. John [Monwood?] not for a month George Bowden is home finished and is reported to be married soon to Miss Allen This is nearly the amount of the news I got I am glad to see by your description of your journey in America that you enjoyed yourself as well as I did. I called with James Maxwell in New York & was several times in his house drank tea once & went to New York with him to see John Moffat and they all said that they did not see you or hear of you. I intend to go to New Orleans as I am afraid to chance the cold climate & in chicago you will be frozen up for 3 or 4 months and that would be death to me, you know that I can not stand cold, the only thing that makes the Southern climate bad, is the yellow fever, of that I must run my chance. I have not done anything yet nor do I in fact know what to do. The person to whom I had my letter of introduction behaves very coldly to me, not taking the slightest interest in me nor does he give me an answer to a question without a seeming grudge, he is a banker & a Scotchman. If the markets here come to a favourable point before I go I intend buying 250 casks of whiskey & taking them to New Orleans. I many times wish I had a beginning made but I do not know how to break the ice. Many a time I wonder what will be the end of my adventures & wish I had contented myself at home. The future has nothing pleasing to me, all seems of inky darkness, & full of shoals & danger. But I must resign to Fate let that be good or bad I envy you having begun to do something, the way I have spent this last month doing nothing is most irksome. Your time will now appear short having your mind engaged But I wish my dear fellow to put you on your guard about the Yankees and I am the more so since you have got into partnership with one. I do not wish to alarm you but only to tell you the advice I got my self. You should have your partnership Deed drawn up very strictly to preserve you from any debts your partner might have become liable to before you joined him, also to covenant that he does not speculate without your knowledge, or lend money. And I have been particularly put on my guard never to take a Yankee's word in matters of business but have every thing expressly stated in writing your partner may be a very honest decent man & he may not. You are strangers to each other. I was glad to see you had escaped the fire, it would have been a terrible blow on you at your commencement, but I hope good luck will attend you on every occasion as well as on that. We have had very heavy rains here last week & the River rose eighteen feet in 24 hours. In your next give whatever news you get from home, as I am always anxious to hear of anything about Portaferry & no doubt your father gives you a good deal. There is very bad news from England, never was business in such a state, failure after failure in every branch of trade. Ireland has nearly escaped. no failure of any consequence having taken place. The Potatoes are rotting all over Europe, & asiatic Cholera is now raging in Russia & taking much the same course it did in 1832. Archy & his wife are well they are going to live in Indiana but where they will settle is not determined. Perhaps in a short time you may take a notion to come South, when I go to New Orleans I will write what sort of a place it is, the fever is still very bad & I am afraid I will have to wait till the second week of November. Wishing you every success & good health I remain D [Dear?] John Yrs [Yours?] sincerely Tho [Thomas?] Warnock Direct my letters to the care of Mr Robt [Robert?] Park Merchant New Orleans Robert Park Merchant New Orleans |
