| Title: | J Carlisle, Brooklyn USA, To His Mother, [Co. Armagh?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 538 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Carlisle, J/21 |
| Year | 1857 |
| Sender | Carlisle, J. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | just left his job at a dry goods store |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Brooklyn, NYC, USA |
| Destination | Co. Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | T.1790/5/3: No Publication Without Permission of Miss D Quinn, Merriview, Quay Hill, Ballycastle, Co Antrim #TYPE EMG J Carlisle, Brooklyn, America, To His Mother, [Forkhill, Co. Armagh, Ireland]. 27th June 1857. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8810023 |
| Date | 27/06/1857 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 04:10:1988 GC created 16:08:1989 ET input 23:08:19 |
| Word Count | 1050 |
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| Transcript | 142 [Myrtle?] Avenue Brooklyn June 27th 1851 Dear Mother I again take the opportunity of addressing a fue [few?] lines to you hoping they may find you in good health all as they thus leave me at present, I could have written to you on this but expecting to have recd. [received?] an answer to my last letter, I do not know whether you recd. [received?] it or not, I wrote it some time before I recd. [received?] your Newspaper so I thought I would again write to you and tell you how I am getting on and also to know how you are all at home. Joseph Murdock did not call with me if he came out as you told me he was to have done I am not now in the same place for the last month in which I was, I was asked by an English man to go and attend in a dry goods store, and I went but found him so harsh that I could not remain only one week, so I am not at present in any situation but I do not stay idle, I strive always to turn my hand to some means to pay my board when I am not in a situation, There is many a changing scene here before a person can get permenantly [permanently?] and satisfactorily settled, there is many a harsh word and many a dark frown to be born with to get through life here, but still [Dear?] Mother I have one [inestimable?] satisfaction that the Lord is with me in all places, I have his kind providential hand with me [since?] even I left you I meet with kind and feeling friends where ever I go though I very often meet many to the Contrary hower [however?] I pay no attention to things of that kind There are two things which cheer me greatly in this strange land they are the hope of being [put?] of use to some of those I have left behind me, and the hope of a rest from toil and Sorrow in my Fathers House above. If Joseph has still a [wish?] for drawing tell him to continue at it and endeavour to improve it all he can, and if I and he are spared I expect to be able to get him a very nice business here, it is light and easy and one at which there is much to be made let him be a good boy and when he is old enough I will try to take him out. I have never herd [heard?] from Eliza Cany yet I would like very much to hear from her, If I do not rec. [receive?] a letter from her soon, I will write to her again, The warm weather is just coming in now I do not feel its effects as much as I thought, I hope you have a prospect of a good harvest, the crops of every kind look exceedingly well here, Dear Mother I do not know of any thing more I can say of worldly matters which will be of much interest to you. My Health up to the present has never been the least impaired, the Lord has been exceedingly Kind to me, and I have a right never to forget him and Dear Mother I am determined by his grace I never shall, I am not (as I have often said to you in my letters before) afraid of ever wanting I believe a Kind providence will never forsake me which I strive to live to his glory, I have just two desires, first to Serve God and get to Heaven, & second, to be of use and comfort to those whom I love. I sometimes feel pressed down with the [cares?] and [anxieties?] of live [life?], but I just then remember that our mourning days will soon be oer some of the [Host?] have crossed the flood and some are crossing now, & we too soon shall bid adieu to Earth and all its [cares?] and disappointments. I would not live always I ask not to stay Where storm after storm Rise's dark o'er our day I would not live always Away from My God Away from Non Heaven That blissful abode [Dear?] Mother my heart is full of joy while I write, My Father has said he will take care of me and All is well. I will expect to have a long letter from you soon and one from Wm [William?] Locke and when I write to you I think it the same as writing to them, I hope all is going on well with them I would like to hear that they are comfortably settled, and though I am thousands of miles from you, while I write I feel as though I was amongst you, and if I can do no more I will call for Gods blessing upon you I feel determined to worke [work?] and pray, and perhaps I may yet see you all fact to face in the body, but if not I expect there is a happier meeting in wait for us, and if you pass before, stand and hail me on your brightest shore, [Dear?] Mother I must now conclude write to me Soon and tell me all the News you Can I enclose a Small [note to?] brother Wm [William?] I did not know his address or I would have also sent him a Newspaper [you?] can however send him this accompanying one when you have done with it it would have been a religious one only I had not an opportunity at present of getting one, [yet?] there is much interesting and useful News in it the small note which I enclosed in my last letter to Jno [John?] [Bourke?] I forgot to put his address on the back but I suppose you knew it was for him, give my love to Jno [John?] Joseph Wm [William?] Locke and Eliza and all my old friends - direct to the care of Mr [Gill?] 142 [Myrtle?] Avenue Brooklyn N York I kindly bid you all adieu for the present and in [love?] remember your affectionate Son James Carlisle N.B. tell me in your next what [preachers?] you have now, J C. |
