| Title: | [?], Georgia, To WJC Allen, Belfast |
|---|---|
| ID | 3996 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1871-80/6 |
| Year | 1875 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Campbell Allen, William J. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends? |
| Source | D1558/1/1/586: The Papers of WJC Allen. Deposited by the late FDC Allen Esq, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9906043 |
| Date | 11/02/1875 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 07:06:99. |
| Word Count | 206 |
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| Transcript | Augusta Ga [Georgia?] 11th Feby 1875 W.J.C. Allen Esq Belfast My Dear Sir Many thanks for your valued favor of 24th October, together with Dr Portins able and interesting reply to Professor Tyndall also the annual statement of the Ulster Bank all of which I have pursued with much pleasure and interest I am pleased to see such men as Dr Porter and Dr Watts handling the professor "without gloves" and am doubly pleased to learn that Belfast is poor soil for materialism or Atheism If Dr Montgomery or Dr Cook had been alive they could scarcely have done more than these two men in vindicating the great truths of the gospel, but they have each gone to their reward and I most sincerely hope their mantle will fall upon others, yet I can hardly ever expect to see their equals, in every particular, in my day, and Ireland should always feel proud of having produced such intellectual Giants, While they differed in minor matters they would have united in our grand effort against Infidelity and Tyndall with all his scientific ability would have dwindled into insignificance our religious puss all over the country gave him a lick and I think he will hardly trouble you again in Belfast on the same subject, The continued success ... (INCOMPLETE) |
