Slevin letters and photos. T.3277, PRONI.
/1. James Slevin, New York City, to his mother, Ballygee, Belleek, Co. Fermanagh,
1 May 1882.
New York May 1 st 1882
as comfortable as you Can tell
My dear Mother
Ann to be as Kind to her as possible
I hope you are living yet to hear an-
and if no other reward ever is
other letter read from me I am
given her God will not forget
very well and hope this will find
it And tell her that I see James
you the Same do not be angry
(page 3)
for me not writing Sooner I
every few weeks that he is well
was very busy wm and patt
and is actually a Steady good
(also?) are very well.
fellow working every day
Dear francis in Answer to your
and is gowing to bring out
Last I believe you are about right
his Frow this is a dutch
to take all you Can get easy from
name for a wife, did you
my polished friend Joseph
get any reduction in the rent
keep hold on the the note and
or how is John and Biddy &
pick at him for a few pounds
the three children tell John
every time you think it any good
to write to me himself or
when it is failing you threaten
biddy and tell little bridget
Law and Keep the note all
that she is forgetting me
the time untill you get the last
I am poking after that money
Cent of it I need not
for Master McGoldrick but can
(page 2)
not (get) any clue yet to it.
Tell you to give half what you
when I was at home I forgot to
get to bridget for I Know you
tell you about a dream I had
will. I hope your (place?) (is)
before gowing home, and since
getting along well and I think
I came back I dreamt the
yous will very Soon have a
same that old white thorn
better place than America is
bush Growing over the little Garden
yous are better off now than
behind wms Buyer (Byre?) and right at
the average people here of
(page 4)
the Same class So let yous be
the step as you (g) o down the
Careful and truthful to
bray to the river you Know below
your selves and yous will
the pigs old craw I dreamt of
yet be the Sole owners of those
piles of gold and silver to be
old Beautiful fields where
in under the roots of it right
health and a good appetite is
under the steps or between the steps
so easy got when you write
and the roots of it
to me tell me exactly How my
Just where you
See the blue mark
MO ther is doing and Keep her
