| Title: | Robert Love, Liverpool, to Robert Love, Virginia |
|---|---|
| ID | 3639 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | love, robert (uncle)/122 |
| 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 | T2393/2/25: Presented by Messrs Heron & Dobson, Banbridge, Co.Down |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9503190 |
| Date | 16/09/1821 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 565 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Mr Robert Love care of Messers Peters & Tufts Newhants Petersburgh Virginia Postmark: Baltimore Jan 2 My Dr [Dear?] Robert L,pool [Liverpool?] 16th September 1821 With pleasure I did receve [receive?] your letter and glad to hear that you were well and in good spirits, long may you injoy [enjoy?] every blesing [blessing?] that this world can aford [afford?], I forwarded your letter to your father and has got a letter from him since in which he lets me know that he and family are all well, in this you will find a letter adreast [addressed?] to you from Ireland that came with your fathers to me I hope you will get them safe, and write by returns of ship to me and let me know all you can about trade in your part of the world, and if you have got that [prize?] in the lottry [lottery?] yet and if you still keep in vew [view?] your coming to England when you leave that place, I have got a letter from your Aunt Cox in which she requestes [requests?] me to say that she would be very happy to see you at winsor to stop for some time and that if you went by France you could land at Dover which would not be far from Winsor. I supose [suppose?] you know her adress [address?] it is this Kings [Kennel?], Sunning Hill, Barks [Barkshire?] England, this would be on your way coming home. I and my family are well your unckle [uncle?] Henry is well and family, I have nothing particular to inform you of but what you have hard [heard?] the King hase [has?] payd [paid?] a visit to old Ireland and while there the Queen took bad and is buried in Brunswick with her father and brother the King hase [has?] been, receved [received?] with the most wonderfull [wonderful?] joy and gladness by the people of Ireland in general it has don [done?] a wonderfull [wonderful?] good to trade in Ireland since he went and he means to hold his court in Dublin every 3 years and the [they?] are about erecting a new palace for him there as Londoners has forgot the respect that is due to the Soverign [Sovereign?] and parlament [parliament?] for some time past and some thinks that the Parlament [Parliament?] Will hold in Edinborough [Edinburgh?] in its turn with Dublin and London the King is gon [gone?] to Germany on a visit there where he is to stop for a few days only, and then return by way of Paris to England, I was glad to know by your letter that you had formid [formed?] such agreeable acquaintances at Petersburg long may you injoy [enjoy?] the blessing of a virtuous acquaintance, and prize it highly when gone [home?] its for it is worth thousands of gold and silver your Grandfather is still on foot and lives at the Castle at Tandragee, your Cuson [cousin?] Robert Love is growing a fine youth, My John is going to a place to morow [tomorrow?] as an aprentice [apprentice?] to a couinting [counting?] house I was not looking for the place, but the gentlemen fancied him from the Caractor [character?] he had of John you would hardly know John or Jane now the [they?] are so much grown now. My Wife with them joyos [joyous?] [Mc?] in love to you and wishing you every happiness I remain your loving and Affectionate Unckle [uncle?] till Death R. Love Write soon by next ship |
