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Title: Greeves, James Richardson to O'Brien, William, 1840
ID6077
CollectionThe Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson]
Filequaker/103
Year1840
SenderGreeves, James Richardson
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationlumber merchant
Sender ReligionQuaker
OriginPhiladelphia, Penn., USA
DestinationLake Erie, NY, USA
RecipientO'Brien, William
Recipient Gendermale
Relationshipcousins
Source
Archive
Doc. No.
Date
Partial Date
Doc. Type
Logunknown
Word Count93
Genreabstract of letter, news of family and friends
Note
TranscriptPhila. 26th 4 mo 1840

"After Thos & I left you last fall —. Thos had to leave school a few weeks ago —. our cousin Dr Morton —. our dear friend Jacob Green —. Aunt Greeves —. We heard a few days ago thru Morton Coates ... that brother
Henry [Greeves] was there [New Orleans], engineer of a cotton establishment. His children are all well, the two
eldest at school ... the two youngest at their grandfathers at Frankfort —. Abm Bell & childn are attending the
wedding of his son Thomas.