| Title: | Dalton, William to Hogan, Ned, 1859 |
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| ID | 4297 |
| Collection | Oceans of Consolation [D. Fitzpatrick] |
| File | oceans/59 |
| Year | 1859 |
| 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 | 692 |
| Genre | news, economy |
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| Transcript | Abbey Februry 22/59 My Dear Ned Yours of the 9th December last reached me on the 12th of this month and I am Sure you will blive me when I tell you how overjoied I felt on receving it. In deed I gave you all up for lost and being ungreatfull but in this I find I was Mistaken So far as you are concrned. I receive the Sydney paper regular for which I feel Most greatfull to you and I am Sure that you will blive Me when I tell you that I will feel Most happy in hearing from you. I am glad that all the rest of the family are doing well and in deed the Could not be otherwise as in living a Most honest Industerus Religious life if they Should have luck in their undertakes. Remember Me to poor Mairy when you See her. As to Judy I Suppose She has given us up all for the husband. James has got Marrid last Novembr to a girl from Neanagh he got £1500 fortune he is Now living in Mough. I had house room enough but his wife preferred living in her own house they were great fools. I left him all his fortune which I am now Sorry for as I made booth of them Mad with Money. Mough is greatly improved Since you left. He has a lase of his own life and thirty one years after for 200 a year what I paid 318 for and Made Money and educated My family. Land is not to be got for love or money in this country. Notwithstanding this was the worst year on tillage farmers that come for the last forty years while those that were in the graizing line were equally good. Every thing that can be laid on the grass is gone beyond the value. Mutton 8D and Beef 7D a 1b Pork equally Dear. In fact there is a great improvement in this Country Booth in the prices and in Conduct of the people. You will See by the papers I send you that wee are Seeking tennant Wright what wee never can get as it is imposible to Frame one. But as the old Saying is it is by Making fools of half the world the other half lives. You will think a greadle [great deal] of the Thurless Meeting when you read it but you will be Surprized when I tell you it was got up by the tag rag of this Country by a few village attorneys and a Skow pool of a MP we have the O'Donohoo. He is a Kerry Man he is a frind of O Connels but Never recoginized him. But there is in this Country the venom of that ruffin Duffy who is gone over to ye their young Irelandders who is formed by a parcel of half educated priests. It was Most afull [awful] to See those young fellows Now abusing old priests of 50 years Standing fellows that would be Minding the pigs were it not for peels grant to Mynooth College. They get when in College a nough to eat and Drink and their education and 25£ a year to Cloath them. Where it not for this wee would have those fellows rosting notaries in the ashes as they Were reared. And when there is vacation in Summer they have this money and in place of coming home to their parents the are too full of money and them that reared them too poor they go about Spending and Sporting. I always Said the British goverment Never gave anythin but to trample on the old country. I am Sorry that my frind and Couzin is made a fool and a tool of by that Duffy He tryed his hand in this Country at every but he at last Came to the Conclution that he was to well Known and to well watched and he said I will try my hand in Melbourn and glad I will be to have a country and to Sell[?] it. Mark [erased: you will] . . . |
