| Title: | Dalton, William to Hogan, Ned, 1858 |
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| ID | 4296 |
| Collection | Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick] |
| File | oceans/58 |
| Year | 1858 |
| Sender | Dalton, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | prosperous farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Co. Tipperary, Ireland |
| Destination | New South Wales, Australia |
| Recipient | Hogan, Ned |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | former employer-former servant |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 536 |
| Genre | news, economy |
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| Transcript | [from transcription of lost original] Abbey Golden August 17/58 Dear Ned Why should old acquaintance be forgotten. I was thinking it was the case until receiving by this mornings post the Sydney Herald and Freeman which I feel much obliged to you. I would always feel a pleasure in hearing from any member of the family. What is become of Judy. I never heard from her but once since she married nor neighther from James or Dan. Poor Mairy I suppose is saying her prayers. This country is improving very much for the last 5 or 6 years notwithstanding there are numbers going to your country. To give you an idea how hirein going on here Butler of Ballicurran is paying 18s a week to ten men he hired in Golden on Sunday and their diet. I am entirely out of tillage thank God. Wheat is not worth more than 14D a stone in this country and it is thought the new wheat will sell at 9D a stone. There is such a glut of forrein corn tillage farmers are not at all well off in this country but graziers are doing well. We had not since the potato blight come such a splendid crop as we have this year. We have 20 barrels to the acre. The blight is gone this year and corn is equally good. I am cutting wheat in Mough today I have only Loyde and his son cutting. It would [word missing] from the farming implements we have got since you left we can do buissness with one third what we had in your time All your friends here is doing well here. Your old friend Mickeleen Hogan is still alive and doing well. He gave two thousand pounds some time ago for an estate and a few days after I was coming from the fair of Kilfeacle and he was sitting in a little [word omitted] he has on the tipping [?Tipperary] road eating his dinner and what was it a little bowl of yellow male stirabout. So you see it is hard to break an horse of his troth [tror]. The Scully and Sadlers are all knocked to pieces. They robbed the country with their Bank. Land that let here some time ago for 15s [?] is now let for 25s [?]. I very fortunately got a lese of Mough for a guinea an acre. It is a pound an acre better now than when you left. I have 40 dairy cows there and it is as good as Abbey for butter. The five tennants that remain on Cloughleigh are very happy having the land under the Courts. There is not one house to the 20 in this country that was when you left. I never heard a word from Matt Blake but twice since he left. There is a free imigration for some young females. I am trying to send out two little girls neices of Peggy Dwyers. If they are successful in going I will write by them to you. They would be a treasure to whoever would get them. I blive it is for Melbourn they are taken. I am Dear Ned Yours truly William Dalton |
