| Title: | Letter from P. Browne to Father, mother and brothers |
|---|---|
| ID | 343 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Brown, P/19 |
| Year | 1887 |
| Sender | Brown, P. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unemployed, formerly a coal worker, now hoping to get a job |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son-parents/siblings |
| Source | D.3561/A/18: Deposited by Dr. E.R. Green |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9310410 |
| Date | 16/08/1887 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by C.R., 14:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 450 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | (Copies of emigrant letters collected by and sent to ERR Green as part of his research project on emigration) San Francisco Aug [August?] 16 1887 Dear father mother and brothers it is a pleasure that I sit down to answer your kind letter that I got two weeks ago I was very glad to see by it that you all are so well hopping [hoping?] that the arrival of this note will find you all well I never had better health myself thank God I left Peabody two weeks ago and is not working in any place yet but indeed can get plenty of work but I will strive and get in the street cars it is a nice clean job and easy work The reason I that I left Peabody because now in the summer their [there?] is not much doing in the coal trade and he wanted only one man but he wanted me to stay and he would give me 7 pounds a month for he said that he likes me better than James I would not take it for James and every other one would say that I put James out of it and any way I would not do the work when their [there?] is only one man in it please do not talk about me leaving or that I could get James place for I never told James that the boss would keep me before him and when you is writing to me do not talk about it For James sees some of my letters and then Peabody wanted me to come back and that he would keep us two but I would not go for it is very easy for a steady person to get a good place when he is known in the city I am stopping now in Jemmys the groves mans but let you send the letters to 114 Washington St [Street?] for I be their [there?] every night I will write to you mother when I go to work again it is very easy getting work now We are expecting McSorley brothers and cousin this week James Jemmy and me went to Petuluma yesterday. There was an excursion to it and we got cheap and went to Charles Lynch's and if you would hear that day's talking with Nelly and Charles and Hugh [Hugh's?] Uncle John was in it and then we went to Hugh's Aunt Catherine's and saw her and Cassie. Charley is the funniest man that ever I heard and Nell is a jolly as ever Charles John Nelly Catherine and Casssie [Cassie?] desired me to remember them to you all and all the neighbours tell Anne Lynch that we were in her son's Edward's house and he has a finer house than any in Strabane Good bye your son P Browne |
