| Title: | W. Campbell Allen, New York to Rosa Drummond, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 441 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Campbell Allen, William John/115 |
| Year | 1838 |
| Sender | Campbell Allen, William J. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | businessman |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New York, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Drummond, Rosa |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | D1558/1/2/37: Presented by the late F.D. Campbell Allen Esq., 15 London Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9803628 |
| Date | 25/11/1838 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:03:98. |
| Word Count | 402 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | New York November 25th 1838. Dear Rosa, Here we are still, although I expected to be a good way on in my Southern journey before this time. Most likely however on the anniversary of the day on which you wrote "You must be content to be &c" we shall have left this City, and our next epistle will be on date from another place. If you sent any letter (as we hope you did) by the packet of the 25th they have gone on South. She had an awful and utterly quick passage; so as to falsify my reckoning as to the access of letters by her. She took every one here by surprise. - Do not for a moment conceive that I shall be at all annoyed if your attention in [----------?] should make me of little importance you could not gratify me more than by making my mother go out as often as weather will permit, and I hope from the way you have begun, that this will be the most agreeable winter the old lady will have spent for a good many years. - We were so dissatisfied with the way in which the honeymoon closed (Bella being very sick & confined to her berth) that we agreed to take a new lease of it, and I trust we are likely to make it a lease renewable for ever, as we are now in the midst of the third honeymoon & neither of us is inclined to give up the enjoyment. - I long for a letter from John, but I suppose he has no leisure especially as his united labours are about commencing again, but I am eager to know what is going on about the Institution. If Mr Lanner has not forgotten the way to W. [Wellington?] Place i.e. if he ever pays you a visit, I wish you would give him to instruction that I propose shortly honoring him with a portion of my correspondence, and that I consider him negligent in not having yet written to me; although I am duly grateful for the papers he sent me. - Give my love to all communicated by Bella and tell William that he has my hearty wishes for success in his suit provided it be in the quarter I thought it ought to be & believe me to be Dearest Rosa, Your truly affectionate brother W.[William?] J. [John?] Campbell Allen. |
