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
Resource Type
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.