| Title: | James Buchanan, Milford to Robert Buchanan, New York. |
|---|---|
| ID | 394 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Buchanan, James/16 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Buchanan, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Milford, Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Destination | New York, USA |
| Recipient | Buchanan, Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | D1473: Presented by K. Baxter, Milford, Co.Donegal. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9705017 |
| Date | 21/07/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 01:05:97. |
| Word Count | 589 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Milford Co Donegal Ireland. 21st July 1892. Dear Robert I just received your letter to-day, and although I am uncertain whether this letter will reach you before you move, yet I think it better to write at once. I regret to hear that you have left Sloane and Maguire, but I write now to say that if you are likely to be out of permanent employment, the best thing you can do is to come home rather than be wandering around New York in search of work. You will find it much more pleasant and comfortable in Milford now than it was on your last visit; I have been working in mud and mortar ever since I came, I have not spent an idle week, but now I have everything in fairly good shape, if you come we will go fishing as much as you want. Miss Gilliland bids me to tell you surely to come, and she says you won't know the house when you get the length. If you do come, write by return, and bring your Tools and all your wordly [worldly?] health with you. The fact is you would be as well to come and settle down in Milford, your work would not perhaps be just as fine or pleasant, as in New York - nor could you earn so much money here but at the end of the year I think you would be just as well off, and we could assuredly give you better food of our own growing a better bed to sleep on and cleaner and better surroundings than you have in New York, besides you are getting on in years, and in a short time you will have to wear spectacles and be less compitent [competent?] to go out and earn a days wages, besides i may not be living very long; at my death you would have to come and live here anyway as there is more property here than you have in New York. Should you come here and settle down to work I have no doubt but you could be kept busy. There is no good Carpenter here but Robert Hazlitt and he has more than he can do, Mrs Osborne told me he could drink all he earns, but he has lately built two houses for himself at Kilmacrenan, he is now working with a lot of other Carpenters at Downings Bay putting up a Wood Hotel that the late Lord Leitrim had ordered ready to be put together in Norway. We have now a nice Steamer between Milford and Glasgow nicely fitted up Cabins with Electric &c. My father still continues in his usual health, he is still able to go across the street. I am amused at him sometimes, if I am working with any of his old tools and happen to lay it down for a few minutes, when I look for it again, he will have it carefully locked up in the press. The handles of the old chisels are worn eaten and ready to fall in pieces, and so blunt and rusty you can do nothing with them and yet he is as careful of them. I think he wants to leave them as a legacy to you when he dies. I hope this letter will reach you - Miss Gilliland sends kindest regards, and bids me to be sure and tell you to come right home. Your Affectionate Brother James Buchanan I suppose the Josephine Williams is a daughter of Uncle Josephs' I suppose she wants help- |
