| Title: | [?], [Michigan, U.S.A.?] To [Robert?], [Co.Londonderry?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 4011 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1881-90/43 |
| Year | 1883 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farm labourer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Robert |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | relatives |
| Source | T.1866/8: Copied by Permission of Miss E M Thompson, Wayside, Articlave, Co. Londonderry, Ireland. #TYPE EMG [? Michigan, U.S.A.] To "My Dear Robt". [Articlave, Co. Londonderry]. 26th November 1883. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8901001 |
| Date | 26/11/1883 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 17:01:1989 GC created 07:02:1989 pg input 19:04:19 |
| Word Count | 779 |
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| Transcript | Curry Farm Sunday 26th November 1883 My Dear Robt [Robert?] I recd [received?] your ever welcome letter on Friday [?] also one from Joe [M L?] tell him I'll write him soon. Your letter to me was the only consoaling [consoling?] one I got from home. I endorse evey [every?] word in it you say [Adei?] & some other might have done more & saied [said?] more than they did and as far as I can gather all others are wireing [wiring?] in for selling the last [paving?] stone. In the first place I have made nothing of it, but [driven?] out of a dear old home to a wild God forgotten [awful?] country to face, & work to Strangers at work I would not do at home & under anything but good health. I am sory [sorry?] I did not remain in ["Hobuckeu"?] I never had pain or ache until I came here & [even?] Mrs Isaih [Isaiah?] curry knew the differnse [difference?] 5 years ago after she came here from Canada I think it is the wather [weather?]. I am at work from 5 till dark at everything & am doing work that these canadians or others can not do, after I fixed up our 300 [trees?] & [staked?] them [&?] made draines [drains? or ditches some 3 + + feet & made a pipe of the best pine boards & took water off the land & has it as dry as our garden. Tom Curry (the owner) is [driving?] up every now other & always someone with him to see what I have done. I am at everything else that is to be done round the place. There are 13 horses 30 cows & young stock & 6 pigs all these are attended to 3 times a day by Isaih & myself I clean, feed & attend to the horses when I get up, & he milks & attends to the cows the sheep require little as yet. I am often down in [Iawas?] with a team & can drive a pair in double harness like a book. I hear from parties that curry is well taken with me I was down on Thursday for a waggon of lumber (which means all cut timber) & Curry wants me to engage a year with him after we press 100 Tons of Hay which will take a month he would want me to go down to attend [bar?] & chore about all summer & take another acre off the orchard & go into vegetables strong they have a big place in East [Saginait?] & will require stuff down by the Boat any week at the same time I would have a general care or change over all the place [A?] man & his wife who would be here Isaihs [Isaiah's?] place & Mrs Currys. I told him I would give him an answer in a Month or so after the pressing of the hay. If maggie was here [&?] undertake to cook &c I hear as much as he would want me to "run" the place that is manage all but he wants me for the gardening business. I. Curry with [me?] leaving here for Canada in April to a farm of their own & they are glad to go I would not care for Maggie to be a servant here having to be up at 5 until Summer and have breakfast on the table for a lot of men in the harvest & hay time all men. [grub?] & Sleep here when they are working. all food is provided of the best. Of course your work is never done here Sunday or Saturday I would rather have a herring at home as all their d - d pastry & tarts &c I can & have done all sorts of work light & heavy dry & wet but milk Butcher & shoeshorse all these [and more?] is supposed to do yourself Tom Curry wants me to take down a house as big as yours & remove it to near his house for a workshop &c for me or anyone else to do little [jobs?] or smith or carpenter work. I wish the hay was all pressed it is heavy I have to fork all of the mow & forward to the machine & [roll?] in all the bales [?] [?] I. Curry feeds & a boy [dries?] the horse, you may guess the size of the barns here when one holds 150 Tons of hay with [?] Except home I could not be happier or better cared for than here as far as bed & board & do as I like in some ways. |
