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Title: Edward J. Hanlon to Michael Hanlon
ID6207
CollectionUlster Migration to America. Letters from three Irish Families [R.A. Wells]
Fileulsterm/10
Year1873
SenderHanlon, Edward J
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationstore keeper
Sender Religionunknown
OriginPittsburgh, Penn., USA
DestinationBallymote, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
RecipientHanlon, Mick
Recipient Gendermale
Relationshipbrothers
Source
Archive
Doc. No.
Date
Partial Date
Doc. Type
Logunknown
Word Count255
Genrework, family, friends
Note
TranscriptFrom: Pittsburgh
Date: 20 July 1873

Dear Brother Michael,

I received your kind and welcome letter and was glad to hear you are all being
in good health as this leaves us all enjoying the same at present, thank God.
I am getting along very well and like this country. I got a rise of wages on last
Saturday night. I don't know what has come on father, why he never writes to me.
I haven't had anything but the one letter from him since I came here. Mother and
Rose might write also. You can tell Mrs. Parkinson that Mary and I will send her
our pictures.
James McKee doesn't like this country at all, but at any rate he has very hard to
work. From = past 5 o'clock in the morning to = past 9 o'c[lock] at night is no easy
job, and it is not the way he was in Bains. Henry Bradley is doing very well. I haven't seen him this last three or four weeks. We are going to have a great pic-nic in our
church on 30th July. Mary Kate, Bill Connolly and I are all for it. Give my love to
Mrs. Stewart and tell her I sent the letter to P. I. Watterson as I did not see him in
New York.
Write soon and let father do it also. Let mother not be uneasy about me as I expect
I will get along very well.
Your affectionate brother

Edward