| Title: | John Hanlon to Father and Mother |
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| ID | 6214 |
| Collection | Ulster Migration to America. Letters from three Irish Families [R.A. Wells] |
| File | ulsterm/17 |
| Year | 1876 |
| Sender | Hanlon, John |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | emigrant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Allegheny City, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Ballymote, Co. Down, Northern Ireland |
| Recipient | his parents |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son-parents |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 440 |
| Genre | arrival, account of passage, family, socialising, decease, friends |
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| Transcript | From: 25 Linden Street, Allegheny City, Pa. Date: 5 May 1876 Dear Father and Mother, I arrived here safe on Wednesday night. Eddie, Kate and Mary and Wm. Ferguson met me at the depot. They were awfully glad to see me. Mary stopped here that night. Eddie did not know me. I am as tall as he, and far weightier. Mary is not very much changed. Kate is stout. I had a very pleasant time in New York. My cousins are very kindly. They are doing a great business. He has three men working for them. I got a pair of buttoned shoes from them. Mr. and Mrs. Rooney are very kindly. I stopped there. I never saw Pat but once. I got the whiskey all right. They would take any British measure from you, but I took 3/4 of a glass out of it and they saw it and said nothing. There were a great many fined for whiskey. They had it sealed. I went to the Central Park on Sunday. It is a nice place. I went to the McIlduffs and had dinner there, and then went over the river to Hell's Gate. I stopped there a while and started for James Mulvaney's. I stayed there a while then went to Pat Gilmore's, they were just going to bed. Dan and I went to a ball on Monday night, and had a very pleasant night of it. We had a pretty long ride from New York to Pittsburgh, it kept us twenty eight-hours. I would rather cross the Atlantic as go on the trains. We had a very rough passage. There was a head wind the whole way over. We saw a very large iceberg about fifteen miles from us. For two days and two nights we could not see one end of the vessel with the fog, when we were crossing the banks. There were upwards of four hundred passengers in the vessel. 1 was sick on Easter Sunday and Monday. I got two eggs. Tell Mrs. Stewart that Pat's wife had died since, and that the two children are in a hotel. Give my love to Mrs. Stewart. Give my love to the Harvey's, also the Gracey's. Give my love to Barney, Patrick and Ellen. Tell Patrick not to fret. How is Rose, also Mick? Write to E. Rooney and Dan. So dear Father and Mother you need not be the least uneasy about me. With the help of God, I will get on well enough. Tell mother not to fret. I remain your affectionate son to death, John Hanlon |
