| Title: | Francis Doyle to Martin Murphy, 8 July 1868 |
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| ID | 4087 |
| Collection | Argentina - Murphy |
| File | murphy/62 |
| Year | 1868 |
| Sender | Doyle, Francis |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | cattle breeder |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | San Pedro, Argentina |
| Destination | Haysland, Co. Wexford, Ireland |
| Recipient | Murphy, Martin |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | acquaintances? |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 532 |
| Genre | correspondence, payments, work, cholera, family |
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| Transcript | San Pedro To Mr Martin Murphy Dear Sir, I write you these few lines hoping you will receive them in good health as they leave me at present thank God. It is a long time since I have wrote to you, but then I know you will excuse my neglect for not being able to do so myself. When living with your brother John I got all particulars from home so regular that it was useless for me to write. But now as I am living some 20 leagues from him I deem it my duty to write as I cannot get accounts so regular. About a fortnight since I was in Uncalito where all friends are well and your brother John told me that he had a note for me from you enclosed in a letter from home. The note was mislaid so that I did not get it. But your brother told me what was most particular in it; was for me to continue sending the money to my mother as usual. I am very thankful to you for your kind consideration and I also thank you for your trouble in forwarding it to her. I was under the impression when I left Uncalito that the money would be continued as usual as I left money there for that purpose. I was but a very short while left, when your brother sent me word that it was stopped. He said he would, if you be so kind as to favour me with an answer, please to let me know at what time you commenced to let her have the money the last time. This is a very moveable country. People are continually changing. I am now living about 20 leagues from the partido of Salto, where I got a very good chance though the kindness and influence of your brother Patrick with one Austin, a Wexford man that is manager of an estancia that belongs to a native wool broker in Bs. Ayres. Camps are in splendid condition and sheep doing very well. It was a very hard summer in this country through a visitation of cholera. There were a number of people died, but thank God very few Wexfordians. But I am sure it is useless for me to describe it as you have had an account of it ere this. I would wish that you be so kind as to favour me by giving £1 to Mrs McCabe for her kindness to my mother. I would also wish that you let no one know, not even my mother, as I know so much her disposition so well that it might breed a variance between them. I promised and I leaving home at same time to send her a present, and suppose the poor woman must be back in need of it now, as I heard her husband is dead. I was very sorry to hear of your sister Mrs Furlong's death. Please give my best respects to Mr Furlong and family, and also to your sister Margaret, and accept the same yourself from me. I remain yours respectfully, Francis Doyle |
