Anderson Letters (continued)
8.
/5. June 47, (cont'd page 2)
expences, & all improvements that you make is for your self
and not for a landlord who can turn you off at pleasure & not
allow you any recompence for all you have done, onely charge
you more rent for all your improvments if he let you remain on it
(page 3)
As you have heard Sister Ann Jane was down hear
last winter upon a visit, She looks well & her Children
is fine interresting children, they were sick at the time
she returned, & continued so untill her return home,
her last letter states that they are quite well again & also
that all our Pitsburg friends is well, that Cousin John Kells
Thomas,
stops at uncle (Holmes?),
the linen you sent by him i have
not received yet, i have sent to sister to have it sent down
As soon as possible, the reason of it not comeing to hand
was Sister thought i would go up to see them, but she was
disappointed As business was good and my employers could
not spare me the time required for makeing a visit so
i thought it more prudent to remain at home,
I suppose before this reaches you that you have heard
of my marriage, as Mr Flack told me he wrote to that
effect, the ceremony was performed upon the 18 th March
by Mr James Presley, in Presence of Bro George & Wife and
Mersers Miller M Cullough Flack & Johnston & several other
acquaintances,
my partners name wasJane Scott, she came
from the vicinity of Belfast, her mother & two Brothers
live in this city & she has two Married Sisters that live
in Ireland,
I
am very well pleased with the change it
has wrought for me,
I have very little more to say at
present, Bro George & family was in to see us one week
agoe they are all well as is all my (tacquaintances?
the by I had almost forgot that John Costello or (Ban ?)
that used to (peddle & tell pomes 2), is in this city & has
been quite sick So that he was not expected to live
he is recovering,
As respects the letter you mention to
have sent by James Crawford i have never received
Give my respects to all my uncles & aunts & Cousins & friends
Jane join me in sending our love to Mother & Brothers & Sisters &
I remain your Affectionate Brother
John Anderson
John Anderson, Cincinnati, Ohio, to his brother, William Anderson, Coagh town, Tamlaght parish, County Tyrone, 28 June 1847
Description
John provides valuable information about his brother George, and expresses his own bitterness towards their father for his unfair treatment of sons; he refused his share of his father's inheritance because he would not accept its conditions. Letter also excellent in describing Irish-American and native American sympathetic responses to news of the Great Famine In Ireland-for instance, people in Cincinnati have subscribed $8,000- $10,000-as well as the good employment (and soldiering) opportunities in the US for poor Famine emigrants, who have opportunities to become "comfortable" in America that they could never enjoy at home. Brother George has cleared 35 acres on his farm : he raises corn to fatten hogs and makes hay to feed the thousands of horses employed in the city; he also raises wheat, oats, and potatoes. Urges Irish people to emigrate to the US, where they won't have to suffer landlordism or high taxes. Reports his marriage to Jane Scott, an immigrant from near Belfast.
