| Title: | Robert Love, LIverpool to Robert Love, Petersburg, Va. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3637 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | love, robert (uncle)/108 |
| Year | 1821 |
| Sender | Love, Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | works for a merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Liverpool, England |
| Destination | Petersburg, Virginia, USA |
| Recipient | Love, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | uncle-nephew |
| Source | T 2393/2/16: Presented by Messrs Heron & Dobson, Solicitors, Banbridge, Co. Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007008 |
| Date | 11/01/1821 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by JM 09:11:1993. |
| Word Count | 491 |
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| Transcript | My Dr [Dear?] Robert Liverpool Jany 11th 1821 This Will inform you that I and my litle [little?] famly [family?] are all well, and also that I have got a letter from my brother your father who is well and all his famly [family?] and lets me know that. he has got a letter from you and tels [tells?] me of the death of Wm [William?] Murry your much esteemed freind [friend?] which I was very Sorry to heare [hear?]. I am sure you must have sufferd [suffered?] a greate [great?] deale [deal?] of truble [trouble?] of mind at his death to be in the midst of straingers [strangers?] and in a straing [strange?] land but my dr [dear?] R. [Robert?] the seame [same?] God that removed him from you can raise you up other friends and prosper your Way in a strainge [strange?] land as he did Joseph of old in the land of Egypt. I hope you Will leane [lean?] unto him and trust in him and he Will be thy couinselor [counsellor?] on all ocations [occasions?]. Your Grand father is Well and all your freinds [friends?], I had a letter from your aunt Jane she and famly [family?] are all Well She spoke of you in her letter and is very Sory [sorry?] for your loss She sends her love to you and wishess [wishes?] you were again in your own country, I am still in the same place in this town Jane is still with the lady that I told you of in a former letter John is in a place now but not at trayd [trade?] as yet, I would be glad yould write soon and let me know how you are and what state the cuntry [country?] is in at present and i can forward it to your father. Times are very flat at present in this town there hase [has?] blow [blown?] an estrly [easterly?] wind for some weeks past which has prevented all shipping to come in to our port and we have very few in our docks now but I hope it will soon chainge [change?], provisions of all kinds are very low here but many very scarce, the [Qunns?] tryel [trial?] is over now. she was found guilty by a mejoyrty [majority?] of 8 or 9 of the Lords and peers of the three kingdoms, but no further procedings [proceedings?] has been folowd [followed?] against her My wife and I with my two children joyns [joins?] in our loves to you and wishing you all manner of hapiness [happiness?] in this year and many returns of the season, I remain Dr [Dear?] Robt [Robert?] your afectionate [affectionate?] Unctale [Uncle?] till Death Robt [Robert?] Love I hope you will write soon farewell Direct to me care of Wm [William?] John Goodwin Strand Str [Street?] no 59 your unctle [uncle?] Henry and famly [family?] is here nowe [now?] (Liverpool) he is in a bad state of health #PAGE 2 Mr Robert Love (care) Peters & Tufft Petersburgh [Petersburg?] Virginia Uncle's Liverpool Jany 21 1821 |
