Liverpool, July 28, 1853
Dear Brother,
I now am glad of the opportunity which you have had before
me in coming over to you, and my father has been over here with me and I have
promis [sic] everything you have ast [sic] me to do and I shall be glad of
having the chance of paying you. This
morning you are goin to send me and father, and I am now over here enjoying the
blessings of good health, as you have said in your letter you are all the same,
thank be to god for it .
I am sorry to inform
you as I was stopt [sic] to work today and I think of goin home, and then I
should be out of it until you shall send for me, and a hope that will not be
long for Liverpool is not a place for no one to be out of job. I’ve work hear 5 weeks and two out of it, and
so if you will send for me to you I shall be very much oblige to you and shall
be as a son for you when I am over. I
would have been over this long time back I had monny [sic]. As the say, monny makes the more to go, and
so it is with me now.
I must say a little about the mills for you. When I was their the(y) [sic] only aloud me 8
S per week and so it was a shame for me to have such wages, and the(y) would be
very glad for me to go back but I don’t think I should go their a tole [sic]
for I had a nuf [sic] when I was their before, and so when I left the(y)
thought I was coming to you then until the(y) seen be gone to Liverpool. I have heard that it is goin very slack their
and so don’t care for it. If I shall
come out to you, you hopt that I would not object to refund the money for you. I shall be very glad of the chance to nag
them for you and I believe that Mr. Daveen is goin on the American male to be a
fireman he told me the other day, and so I respect [sic] you shall see him. He doesn’t know how soon he shall be comeing and
so you can send everything you like with him when he’ll come. He sends his love to you and all.
I received a letter from James this morning and he wants to
come with me sadly, and so we must send for him after he has learn a little more
for he has paid a good atention since he is their, and so lost a year time with
his arm and I believe his arm is very strang by this and so I thing [sic] I
shall be home back again Saturday next and I shall go and Mr. Gleave and see
what he has to say to me again.
I shall send to you soon again about all for my time is
short and I must conclude in love to you and Elizabeth and ___ and
yourself.
Believe dear brother I remain most truly,
Edwin Benjamin
PS The money which you are goin to send father and after I
settle with when I am over. E. Benjamin
A letter to John from his brother, Edwin. Edwin's grammar is not so hot at this point. He wants to come to America badly.
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