John Nowlan Jr., Tinahely, Co. Wexford, to his brother, Patrick Nowlan, Digby, Nova Scotia, 2 August 1844
Description
Terrific, guilt-inducing letter from a pious and patriotic would-be emigrant, who, like James, failed to realize that his admonitions would surely have the opposite effects on his convert brother than John, Jr., intended. John Jr., reports that he's now employed as a "shopman" in Tinahely, in the woolen and linen trade, but he laments that it's impossible for young men in Ireland to save any money. Likewise, their brother James is now a corn and flour merchant's clerk near Enniscorthy, County Wexford. John, Jr., reports that he has taken the Temperance pledge and is also a Repeal warden in Daniel O'Connell's campaign to repeal the Act of Union. He doesn't explicitly beg for help to emigrate, but that appears to be the subtext. [Letter is actually addressed to "Patrick Nowlan, Province of Nova Scotia, Town of Digby or Sisciboe, Halifax, America"].