| Title: | James Buchanan, Milford to Robert Buchanan, New York. |
|---|---|
| ID | 395 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Buchanan, James/19 |
| 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. | 9705028 |
| Date | 31/07/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 01:05:97. |
| Word Count | 472 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Milford Co Donegal Ireland. 31st July 1892. Dear Robert On receipt of your letter last week, I at once wrote you at 228, West 24th St., care Mr Smith. Should you not have received that letter you might call for it, and if it has gone back to the Post Office the handiest way to get it would be to send a Card to the Postmaster asking to have the letter addressed to you at 24th St. sent on to your present address on Eleventh Ave. I have received a letter from you today, and at once write to say that if you are likely to be out of work for a while, the best thing you can do is to come right home and take a rest. It will be more comfortable for you now than on your last visit, and bring your tools and everything belonging to you with you, - as perhaps you may stay longer than you think, besides I have not had a vacation since I came here and we can have some good fishing at the horse-rock and in the Winter we can snare as many rabbits in the field as will keep us in flesh meat, don't spend any time looking for a job if you are out of work, nor don't lay out a dollar buying fashionable clothing, but bring your money with you, we have plenty to eat, I have as much vegetables growing that I am giving them away, rather than let them go to loss. As I wrote in the letter I sent last week, I have no doubt but if you settled down here, you could have all the work you wanted after a while. The work would not be so fine nor so well paid as you have been accustomed to, but at the end of the year I believe you would be better off, and you would certainly be more comfortable than in New York. There is that house of Uncle John's you could have after a while, and as I have some money laying idle in the Bank if you kept a Carpenter Shop and a Stock of lumber I do not doubt but you could make a fair living, certainly better than being idle in New York, so if you are out, or likely to be just come home and take a rest and you can judge for yourself but you have a good home here and you have none in New York. We just dug our new potatoes yesterday, they are first rate, as all our vegetables are, every thing looks nice in the garden and if you are here this month you will still be in time for the gooseberries. Miss Gilliland bids me tell you to come right away. My father still keeps very well. Your Affectionate Brother James Buchanan |
