| Title: | 22. From James Prendergast to his son Thomas |
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| ID | 5667 |
| Collection | The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber] |
| File | prendergast/22 |
| Year | 1845 |
| Sender | Prendergast, James / Connor, Jeremiah |
| 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 / neighbour |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 695 |
| Genre | correspondence, family / petition for assistance |
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| Transcript | Mr Cornelius Riordan No 22 Atkinson Street Boston State of Mass America prepaid T.S.P. Milltown May the 21st 45 My Dear Thomas, I have to acknowledge the Receipt of your welcome letter of the 1st Inst ^on the 16th Inst^ with your check of £5..os..od stg. which gave me your affectionate mother Brothers and their families the warmest pleasure of finding you all in as perfect state of health as this leaves me your affectionate mother Brothers and families at present thanks to providence for his divine mercies. Dear Thomas I have to acquaint you that I received the amount of the check in the Tralee Bank Immediately and receiving your letter if empty would be as welcome to me [and] your affectionate mother as if it contained £50 British. We were so impatient this time past for not receiving a letter from ye we were doubtless^ly^ In dread something was the matter with one or either of you. Dear Thomas you mentioned in your last letter the Receipt of a letter the 9th of November last. You must have mistaken the date. The last letter I wrote you was dated the 6th of March last. Whether you received same I cannot say. Dear Thomas I am always acquainted writing to ye regularly if you receive them as I and your loving mother think a month a year when we dont hear from you all. Moreover our scriviner or writer ^Patt Mahoney^ is as free to us as if one of yourselves were at Home. Therefore do not neglect writing to us often, as it is my chief object. Tho we are a Burthen on ye I well know it would be a consolation to ye to hear from us. I know it from my own Bosom as we get many years younger when we receive your letter. Therefore do not neglect writing Immediately. Dear Thomas I have to acquaint you that Daniel Riordan is well in health and in the same situation still in the Victoria hotel Killarney. Dear Thomas let me know in your next letter how is James John and Laurence Ford and how are they getting on. Dear Thomas your Brother Michael seemed as much delighted at your letter with respect to the little donation which ye intend sending as if he had same in his Pocket he being so certain of your Punctuality that he expressed he was sure now of same. He wants a little horse badly and I am very glad you did not encourage him to go to that country as he seems not sound in health tho not having any sickness. I have no more to say but wishing you all every happiness with your Beloved mother Brothers and their families who join with me in love and friendship to Cors Riordan Judy Riordan Jeffeory and Thomas Prendergast and Remain your affectionate until death. James Prendergast I expect an answer to this immediately. From Jeremiah Connor of milltown Publican begs of you to let him know in your next letter whether that Country would be ^a^ good place for him to send his Eldest son namely Part Connor to. He is seventeen years of age and is a proper honest Boy and a very Proficient scholar. If ye could make out any situation for him in a shop or otherwise to bind him to some good trade for a few years as I am informed that in that country they have a yearly salary together with showing them their trade. Therefore as you consider the best mode for him to have a clean livelihood I would be most anxious to send him to that Country according to the encouragement had from you in your next letter and by your exertion in the above case I will for ever be under the greatest obligation to you all. I having seven in family that I would be most anxious to have the eldest Boy in some good way to get thro life than have him in this miserable country in Poverty. No more at present from yours Truly Jeremiah Connor |
