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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-22-2018, 01:32 AM
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That tallies with the letter where he says the journey from New York would be troublesome with many changes.
Incidentally two of his nephews later emigrated to the USA and worked as engineers on the railway which crosses from East to West, can't remember the name.
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Forum: Lens Clubs
10-19-2018, 01:43 AM
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New Orleans seems to have recovered well from the hurricane, quite a specular shot.
By a strange coincidence I have a letter in front of me dated 1849, from a long forgotten relative living in Cincinnati, in it he is encouraging his relatives living in Ireland to join him. In the letter he mentions that his brother is a clerk on one of the riverboats and that the best way to get to Cincinnati is to come by New Orleans rather than New York, it took me a while to realise that you could get a river boat all the way from New Orleans right up to Cincinnati and probably beyond. In the letter he lays out the food they would need for the voyage from Ireland to New Orleans, one forgets it was do-it-yourself catering back then, he also says to come in March or April as the Yellow Fever in New Orleans is not that bad at that time.
I am actually amazed that the letter has survived, my family was living in London during the war and were bombed out at least once. Most of the letter is crossed, written first across the page in portrait format as you normally would and then rotated 90 deg and written in the opposite direction - landscape format - so its quite difficult to read and also slightly faded in one or two places, apparently postage was calculated on the number of pages hence the crossing.
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