May the 6 1855
May Beloved Mother
But hope this will excuse me for all
sgt there dis April that i have almost forgoten
Mother this leves me in good helth at present
hoping it will find you and my brothers
and Sisters in the same
Dear Mother I will relate to your ,as Nere as Poscille
Hy miss fortunes and sickness for the last year
every thing prospered very well with me Untill last
August at that time i was taking sick with ext bad
with and ley sick for three months And. Jbegan
to leinid think after the first that my bornes would he
take in the wild piliani if ba Departing St put me in
mind of my Mother and sisters and brothers thought
If i could only see them i could ide happy
But by the Assistance & etgood doctor and Action
to tak care of well, Here is some thing, that
Hargy use will surprise your when itel an that my Doctors
ill was the small fifteen hundred dolbers
For the man to wate on me and give me the Madicens
tat was prescribed for me by the Datey Both there Bills
Amounted to Ameteen hundred Dollars, this maks of whole
in the paire fast, But this is California life and me must
is contented with it,- will relate to you some more
f my miss hapis Issufficie your have all had of Bout the
It dhuir of the Banks of california and the Attantic State
The fallice of of dervis and bo Bank took me out of
thousanth fine huntred Jollers of my hard burnings in California
in
Unsigned letter, California, to his mother, (County Armagh?), 6 May 1855
Description
This is an excellent letter, but it's not written by one of the Williamson brothers; the writer's literacy level is too low and his expressions are too crude. Letter appears to be from a farmer who has lost several $1,000 through sickness and bank failures, about which he's surprisingly philosophical. Expresses very negative attitudes towards churches in California and about religion in general. He writes of relatives, who have names similar to those of the Williamsons, but who live in Ohio. [author writes that he lives forty-five miles from Sacramento].
Date
06/05/1855
Date Issued
27/03/2023
Resource Type
Text
Archival Record Id
p155/4/1/1
Publisher
University of Galway
Extent
7pp
Topic
Williamson Letters
Geographic
California,United States,Armagh (county),Ireland
Temporal
Nineteenth century,Eighteen fifties
Genre
Letter,Transcription,Reproduction
Note
Title and description by Professor Kerby Miller. Transcript text by PRONI.
