| Title: | O'Brien, Joseph Sinton to O'Brien, Daniel & Anson, 1842 |
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| ID | 6116 |
| Collection | The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson] |
| File | quaker/129(3) |
| Year | 1842 |
| Sender | O'Brien, Joseph Sinton |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | clerk |
| Sender Religion | Quaker |
| Origin | NYC, USA |
| Destination | Collins, Lake Erie, NY, USA |
| Recipient | O'Brien, Daniel & Anson |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 263 |
| Genre | he is glad they are helping at the farm, tells them about young boys in NYC |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Daniel and Anson: Dear Boys, I am very glad to hear that you are able to help so much this summer and I wish you could write so as to tell me how you get along in haying. Willy thinks it a hard case to be shut up in the the city but I guess that you would like to change places with him for a few days; but you would soon get sick of it for there is so many bad boys in the streets that you would be kept in the house or sent to school till you grew older, so that you would not speak to them. It would make you laugh to hear the little newsboys going about the streets with bunches of papers under their arms crying out "Sun", "Herald", "Era", "Tribune", "New York Arena, Sunday Mercury, Sunday Times, Sunday Herald, Sunday Flash, Evening Tatler, Evening Universe, Brother Jonathan, News Herald, Boston Nation, and Weekly Whip". This is not all the papers they have, but they seldom cry more than these since the others have not such musical names; and if you say these over and over with a singing tone you will have a pretty good idea how it sounds. I think f have written a pretty long letter to you. Have Margaretta write next time and tell her that l am glad she is going to school. Tell Willy to tell Margaretta to tell Maria to tell Mother to give a kiss for me, and when you are eating potatoes and milk, remember I have none. |
