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Isaac Potts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to his sister Martha Crane (Mrs David Crane), The Rowantree, Quilly, Dromore, County Down, postmarked 10 September 1946
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Collection Potts/ Poots Letters
Title Isaac Potts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to his sister Martha Crane (Mrs David Crane), The Rowantree, Quilly, Dromore, County Down, postmarked 10 September 1946
Description A short letter, the first third of which is entirely filled with religious relfections and consolations inspired by a family death in Dromore; religious reflections are remarkably similar to those of Quakers and Presbyterians in the 18th and early 19th-century letters. His son Robert was now working for "the Carbonundum Co.," while son Edward was going to high school at $65 per month on the G.I. bill. Daughter Grace had married a man with a clerical position in the Railroad, making $182 per month, and they had just taken out a $4,000 G.I. loan to buy a house worth $5500. Potts estimated that his own house was now worth $12,000. "There is plenty of work here but strikes and work stoppages cut into production you would hardly believe what it costs to live butter 85¢ a pound milk 20¢ a qt eggs 68¢ a dozen steak 80¢ a pound bread 15¢ a small loaf however we are lucky in having the property houses you just cant't get we could sell it now for $12,000.00 but where would we go to live." Potts wrote that his brother Samuel (of Meadville) ''was here in the winter when his case againao the City come up and he said when he got the money that he would send Emily her $100.00 for going over and swearing for him but You know his wife she would not let him send a nickel she was always on the receiving end looking for a haul, she was a kind of on the war path when she was here, She brought up a lot of stuff she said that I looked out for No 1 while in Ireland she said I lined my pockets I have made more here in a two week pay than I got all the time Potts (continued) I was in Dromore and that inclu(des) clothes too Father loaned me $35.00 when I came here and the first $35.00 I made I returned it." Potts is 59 years old .
Date 10/09/1946
Date Issued 27/03/2023
Resource Type Text
Archival Record Id p155/62/17
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 4pp
Topic Potts/ Poots Letters
Geographic Pittsburgh (city),Allegheny (county),Pennsylvania,United States,Quilly (townland),Down (county),Ireland
Temporal Twentieth century,Nineteen forties
Genre Transcript
Note Title, description and transcript text by Professor Kerby Miller. This material is not available for public reference digitally for rights or privacy reasons. Please contact the University of Galway Library Archives to view this material. Contact email: digitallibrary@universityofgalway.ie
Creator / Author Name Isaac Potts