| Title: | James Brown, Philadelphia to James Brown, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 336 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Brown, James (1)/39 |
| Year | 1814 |
| Sender | Brown, James (1) |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | mechanic? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Brown, James |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | D 3688/F/10 a & b |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9103120 |
| Date | 14/11/1814 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 22:12:1993 |
| Word Count | 118 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | D 3688/F/10a From: James Brown, Philadelphia To: His Cousin James Brown, 18 Mill street, Belfast, Expressing surprise that he has not answered his last letter asking him to write. "...As for your kindness to Nancey I will never forget you. What you have done for her pleases me well...let me now [know?] if she is well and how she comes on at school and if she require 6 months more schoolling [schooling?] let her have it. Respects to your father and William and George and all> the family, not forgetting little Bessie Brown... ...Times is very brisk here at present with the most of mecenniks [mechanics?]. I have more than I can do. I have done about $7000 worth of work this season at present... ...My cousin Jean here is a fine girl and she thinks her cousin Jean ought to wrote an answer to her letter..." D 3688/F/10b "...Notes by James Brown, Belfast, written on the reverse side of the above letter saying that he had replied on the 4th February per Nancy Brown who had sailed on the Ceres on the previous day, and informing him of the death of his uncle, William Brown...." |
