| Title: | 10. From James Prendergast to his son Thomas |
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| ID | 5655 |
| Collection | The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber] |
| File | prendergast/10 |
| Year | 1843 |
| Sender | Prendergast, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Milltown, Co. Kerry, Ireland |
| Destination | Boston, Mass., USA |
| Recipient | Prendergast, Thomas |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | father-son |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 733 |
| Genre | family, neighbours |
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| Transcript | Mr Cornelius Riordan No 22 Atkinson Street Boston Mass America a ship letter prepaid Milltown June the 12th 1843 My Dear Thomas, I have received your welcome and Joyful letter of the 15th of May last with your draft for £6..os..o sterling and gave both I and your affectionate mother the most Joyful pleasure of finding you all in as perfect health as this leaves us all at present thanks be to the divine redeemer. Your Brothers and Families are all well in health. Your affectionate Brother Maurice is still at Glenflesk. He has no employment as yet. He has stopped convenient to his garden this year as having no employment at present. Daniel Riordan is in the same place and Situation still and is in very good health. My Dear Thomas I had received a newspaper from you some time before the receipt of your letter. Whether you post paid for it I am anxious to know as I was charged 2d for same. My Dear children I have to communicate to you the state of uneasiness we were in this time past when we discovered ye did not receive any of the four letters I had written to you this time Back until the last which I posted in Killarney office. Dear Thomas (Turn over) there must be some fraud in our home post. I strongly suspect it is for the lucre of the shilling they delay the letters in the post I have strongly on my mind to believe. But in your letters there is no fraud I alway receive therefore direct them as usual to milltown post for me. I will for the future post my letters either in Killarney or Tralee as I have experienced you dont get mine. Let me know whether John Healy of Killarney wrote to Cornelius since as I gave him the Directions the last time I was in Killarney according to your directions. Dear Thomas let me know in your next letter whether you all are for coming ^home^ or no as you mentioned in Mary Donoghue's letter therefore your affectionate mother is anxious to know. Mr Francis Spring and family are all in prime good health. The day before we received a letter from you Mr Spring recd a letter from America from his own family there. Dear Thomas we were so uneasy that at the time of Towhy's daughter going to America (Mrs McCarthy) your mother followed her to Killarney with a letter to you by hand being so dispaired you would not get any. Let me know in your next letter whether you got same. Dear Thomas this summer is very indifferent wet all through, but thank God very cheap times. The Best of Black mingins at 1s/6d per Peck Pork at 31/2 per lb. My Dear children we have some nice hams of old sound Bacon waiting your arrival home together with a good Fat pig which will be fit for sticking after your arrival here. Let us know in your next letter when do ye intend coming home. Let me know is it any difference yourselves and Mrs McKenna had wherein you dont mention her in your letter at any time as her father is always inquiring of us and the Father is surprised the son does not send him any assistance. The Repeal is making the greatest progress in this country. Some of our Magistrates has been superseded for attending the meetings. Some of them are Resigning of their own accord sooner than give up the Repeal. No more at present from your affectionate Father mother and Brothers who join with ^us in^ love and friendship for Cors Riordan Mrs Julia Riordan Jeffeory and Thomas Prendergast James Prendergast From your humble friend Patrick D. Mahony and feel thankful and extremely obliged to you in the kind exertions you have taken with respect to my Brother's information. I shall for ever feel thankful after your advertisement should you Discover any inteligence to write us a letter speedily. Also I will feel obliged to you by giving my best love to My cousin Patk Moynihan Tailor and family and let him know that I am well in health thank God. I am yours Truly Park D Mahony I send one newspaper the Kerry Evening Post Inform me whether ye got same. |
