| Title: | Archibald Carson, Philadelphia, To His Mother. |
|---|---|
| ID | 583 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Carson, Archibald/11 |
| Year | 1856 |
| Sender | Carson, Archibald |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | attendant at a hospital |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | T.2077/5: Copied By Permission of William Carson Esq, Artiferal, Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, Ireland. #TYPE EMG Mr Archibald Carson, c/o Dr Kirkbride, Insane Hospital, Philadelphia, To His Mother. 29th April 1856. |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8810042 |
| Date | 29/04/1856 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 06:10:1988 GC created 31:01:1989 ET input 01:02:19 |
| Word Count | 460 |
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| Transcript | Philadelphia 29th April 1836 Dear Mother, I receive your kind letter long since and must apologise in not writing you long since But having nothing important to say about it all and indeed I have but little at present. But wishing to let you know that all is well here and trusting to have a letter from you soon stating the same I am always anxious to hear from home and as you are the only person I am corresponding with I shall feel happy to hear from you soon, and please give my best regards to all your friends and my acquaintances. I need such particulars which by now as you find them all- Nancy, Robert and family and Mrs Manns. Andrew and James my two sons here is well and Danny well. They send their Best love to you and all and their friends at home Andrew got into a grocery store after he arrived and was very fortunate in getting a respectable establishement the money is not much at present he has a Nine Dollar per month [founds?] funds, James has finished his apprenticeship and is engaged at ten dollars per week without boards. With respect myself I purpose [propose?]staying here until a better offer which may be some time the work is not hard but close attention required you mentioned in your will about the fifty pounds that I was to get at your death- I certainly had to sign it over to M Crackon before I could get away to satisfy him and then for the property of my poor wife, and I believe they treated her most cruely [cruelly], in Ballymena locked up in a cold garret and I may say at least I am doubtfull starved her to death. But the almighty will avenge just judgement on the world of [Eternity?]. But I trust she will get forgiveness on this world for the many wrongs now to me and my poor wife after all the [trouble] me of kept Andrew Biller these there years working hard enough and his to them that I had brought him to come out along with me and the ten pounds you paid him kept it and charged him for repairs of shoes and clothes till it came to all But three pounds some shillings barely what paid his passage to New York and when he got here was without a penny he was obliged to stop there at a friends house knowing my address wrote you and I had to send money to bring him on that was the last of the treatments and I hope will finish all future [ ? ] Please write soon and give me there news and remember me to all their old friends Your Son Mr Archibald Carson Care Doctor McBride Insane Hospital Philadelphia |
