| Title: | 42. From Elizabeth Prendergast to her children in Boston |
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| ID | 5687 |
| Collection | The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber] |
| File | prendergast/42 |
| Year | 1849 |
| Sender | Prendergast, Elizabeth |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Milltown, Co. Kerry, Ireland |
| Destination | Boston, Mass., USA |
| Recipient | Prendergast children |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | mother-children |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 446 |
| Genre | money, family |
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| Transcript | Mr Jeffery Prendergast 69 Southstreet Boston State of Massachusetts N. America T.S.P. Milltown 10th November 1849 My dear Children Yesterday I received the amt of your Order, sent in your letter of the 4th of October last. Mr Quill, Director of the National ^Provincial^ Bank is as good friend to me as he was to your father. He said that he would always cash for me, as often as often as I should want it, tho it was on the National Bank no matter where when the order was good. I need ^not^ say I am thankful for what ye send me at all times and that I reel more pleasure on receiving an account of the welfare of my children and their families than any gift I could get myself. Thank God that I am ye ^are well. I am well thank God and so are all the friends, Michael's Wife and children and Maurice and Family. I received the amt of the check ye sent in may last and I returned an answer (I believe) twice over. Michael's Wife received the amt of her order in due time and replied directly. I suppose he has received it long before this. My dear Children It is un =necessary for me to say that ^I am^ really sorry for what ye lost by the failure of your employer, but it is useless to despair. Ye could not foresee nor avoid it. Ye cannot avoid it ^blame yourselves^, therefore, do not fret too much. God is good and will reward the honest man. May God bless and help ye. I have one thing to tell ye. Last year The Revd Mr Buckley published a station here, and your father received him. He has done the same now and will be with me tomorrow, and if it cost £5 I would not refuse receiving him. Reply to this as soon as you can and tell how every one of ye and and your families are situated and what Julia and Con are doing. Maurice begs you will tell him what particular trade James Maurice is bound to. Tell James his mother is displeased for not writing to her. She could expect nothing else yet. They cannot understand what a Mechanist is is in your Country, for here we call all good tradesmen Mechanics. Tell Michl that his Wife paid Michl Ginna the little that was due to him. I will say only that I send my blessing to each of ye young and old and not forgetting Con and Julia and that I am affectionately your Mother Elizabeth Prendergast |
