| Title: | 47. From Elizabeth Prendergast to her children in Boston |
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| ID | 5692 |
| Collection | The Prendergast Letters. Correspondence from Famine-era Ireland (1840-50) [S. Barber] |
| File | prendergast/47 |
| Year | 1850 |
| 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 | 367 |
| Genre | emigration |
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| Transcript | Mr Thomas Prendergast 79 Southstreet Boston State of Massachusetts N. America Milltown 19th Augt 1850 My Dear Children Just now, the Postboy handed me your letter of the 7th Instant covering a check for £5. I need not say what joy I feel when I hear that ye are all well, and how I am more than joyful at the thoughts of being going to my dear children. Figure to yourself what comforts I anticipate at the thoughts of embracing each and every of you so long parted from me. I have another cause of great pleasure and joy namely your sending for John's little Orphan. She is going from misery, and parting a tribe I never liked. We are ready as soon as the Agent will call on us. I hope we will be well prepared. I have a good featherbed and plenty bedclothes to take with me, and ye have sent me the means to procure the rest. I felt so anxious to go out that I wrote a second letter after the one you answered. I hope you will not be troubled with replying to it as all my expectations are now answered. I am very well in health and spirits thank God. So are Maurice and his Family and Michael's Wife and family. All your friends are well. I called on father Batt. He was out ^of^ home but I shewed your letter to his cousin father Buckly who said he would deliver your message. As I expect to see ye all shortly I will only say that I remain affectionately your Mother Elizabeth Prendergast P.S. Wm Dinneen called on me and begged that you would tell Michl he requested of Mich to see his son Edwd Dinneen, who lodges at David Kelly's 59 Ellis street, and to tell him that his father sold what he had to go out as soon as he writes. Wm wrote to him when I wrote to ye but received no answer. He and his family are very anxious to sail with me. He begs of Michl to say in his next whether Edwd is married or not. |
