| Title: | Thos. W. Coskery, U.S.A. to W. J. C. Allen, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 709 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Coskery, Thomas W/25 |
| Year | 1873 |
| Sender | Coskery, Thomas W. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | businessman |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Campbell Allen, William J. |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends, business |
| Source | D 1558/1/1/500: Papers of William John Campbell Allen Deposited by F. D. Campbell Allen. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9802148 |
| Date | 12/09/1873 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 04:02:98. |
| Word Count | 720 |
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| Transcript | a [answered?] 27 October 1873 Augusta 12th Sept 1873 W. J. C. Allen Esq Belfast My Dear Sir Your valued favor of the 27th ult. is before me & contents noted. I am very glad to hear that you and your family are in good health & am always pleased to have a letter from my native country however short it may be as it revives old recollections of Belfast and its surroundings. Although but a mere boy when I first left there, my heart still clings to "Old Erin" and with all her faults I love her still. I am rather surprised that John Davison has not answered your letters for I have always regarded him as a prompt businessman and a very successful one for the last twenty years, although he had some hard struggles in the early part of his life he is now quite wealthy and spends most of his time in the parlour of the Georgia R Road [Railroad?] Bkg [Banking?] Co. where he is a large stockholder. He and I are on the most intimate terms yet I regard him as very excentric [eccentric?] in many respects and have never intimated that I knew you had written him except once on my return I merely mentioned that you were expecting a letter from him. He seemed to take a great interest in the Ulster Bank statement which you gave me and enquired particularly after you. As to William Bryson I fear you are not likely to get any response from him, he is not in the city at present and I don't know when he will return. Mr Bryson left him between twenty to twenty five thousand dollars and a good business, long established, but I hear he has run through it all speculating on "Cotton" or what we call "Futures" which is kin to gambling though more respectable & followed by a large class of our cotton merchants in N. York [New York?] and elsewhere. "Young America" is not content to make a fortune in the old fashioned slow way but must have it in a year or burst and not a few of them explode when they are left to themselves. Mr Bryson's two daughters are here in comfortable circumstances & most excellent ladies they are, Carrie the elder is still unmarried & Mary and her husband live with her in the old home. Mrs Giltenan has not returned to the city but presume she will spend all her time in Augusta hereafter. Our city is improving more rapidly in the way of new buildings than I have ever known and manufacturing prospects are also good. I sent you a large pamphlet four months ago, by Dr. Eve, showing how the various factories were getting along, but the Dr. has just returned and told me he failed to visit Ireland. Please say to Mr [Carr?] that I wrote him as fully as I could respecting his Georgia Bonds and regard them good. Since I wrote I have heard from the Secy [Secretary?] of the Treasury that there has been no provision made to meet the [Coupons?] except at the 4th National Bank at N. York [New York?] which is a great nuisance to foreign holders and well calculated to reduce the value on that side of the Atlantic. I believe I have given you all the news that would be likely to interest you and if I can serve you at any future time it will afford me great pleasure to do so, should you want to make enquiries about matters here, I will also take pleasure in sending you a paper occasionally and shall feel greatly obliged for a Belfast paper from you occasionally at your convenience. Our business season is now about to commence New Cotton begins to come in freely, from all I can learn I think we will have good cotton crops. The market has opened at about 18« c [cents?]. In antiwar (sic) times you know we were satisfied with 8 c [cents?], and I have sold it at 4 c [cents?] to 6 c [cents?] during our Mexican war. The abolition of Slavery has not diminished our products although at first labour was demoralised as they supposed freedom meant idleness, latterly they have learned different, With kind regards to your family and associates Miss B &c I am Dr [Dear?] Sir Yours very truly Thos. [Thomas?] W. Coskery. |
