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Prudence Love, Banbridge, County Down, to her brother, Robert Love, [Petersburg, Virginia], 20 May 1819
Luaigh an doiciméad seo Amharcóir IIIF
Bailiúchán Love Letters
Title Prudence Love, Banbridge, County Down, to her brother, Robert Love, [Petersburg, Virginia], 20 May 1819
Description Very similar to the preceding letter, expressing hope that her brother will stay in America no more than two years. This and other letters give the growing impression that the family plan was for Robert to "apprentice" in America as a merchant's clerk, stay there no more than two or three years, and then return to Banbridge. It's also clear that Robert's father and friends (such as George Mahood: see Letters 6 and) had arranged for him to be apprenticed to former neighbors or kinsmen from east Ulster. This was a cosmopolitan, bourgeois family: Robert's paternal uncle was a merchant in Liverpool.
Date 20/05/1819
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Cineál Acmhainne Text
Archival Record Id p155/6/4
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 3pp
Topic Love Letters
Geographic Banbridge,Down (county),Ireland,Petersburg,Virginia,United States
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen tens
Genre Transcript,Reproduction
Note Title, description and transcript text by Professor Kerby Miller.
Creator / Author Name Prudence Love