Bagillt
August 5, 1853
Dear John & Elizabeth,
I take the pleasure of sending these few lines to you in
hopes to find you all well as these leaves us at present & thanks be to God
for it. And according to your request
that I write with this mail to inform you that I received your letter on Monday
last and the next day got the money cashed at Holywell, and I went to Liverpool
myself and got to the officer strait [sic] on, and it was impossible for to get
a berth with the America for they were full and could not get room for one, and
they took his name and agreed with me for to bank the money in Holywell and I
mean to do it today, and as you thought that we would be able to get a passage
for about 10 or 12£, it could not be in no way whatsoever under 15£ in the
second cabin and there is no third, and as you can see by the newspaper upon
the account of the other line of packets, the first one as to come out next is
the Taurus(?), they expect to arrive about the 15th of this month
from America and to return they expect about the twentieth. I made an enquiry in the office about her but
she is not to take any passengers, and the Andes is the first open time to
bring passengers and that on the 31 of August as you can see in this week’s
paper, and another thing they told me of is the passage money is more with them
than the Mail for that it is 10£ the lowest money for to come out with them,
therefore as you desire so much for to have him out against the latter end of
the month I thought I could not do anything
better than getting his passage with the Econ(?) for on Saturday the
twentieth of this month, as you can see by the paper that she is for Boston and
that will be fifteen pounds, and he says that if God sends that he shall arrive
safe and have his health that he shall not be long in making this money up for
you again and he is very anxious to come out .
So all your brothers and sisters sends their kind respects
to you all and that they are all well, hoping you are the same. I must conclude for the present with our kind
love to you all, and this from your dutyful father & mother, Robert &
Sarah Benjamin, with a great many thanks to you for your kindness towards us at
all times.
PS. Your brother is
going to write a few lines to you to finish this up as he is here, for he was
out of employ when I went to Liverpool and I made him come home for he was
running to expenses there, therefore I thought he would be better at home, and
at home he will be I suppose for this fortnight. R.S.B.
I shall more write a few lines to you in answer to your
letter as I was glad of the money you send me for to come over. I am sorry as I can’t come over until the 20th
of this month and so I respect [sic] to be with you by the end of the month,
and so I respect I shant be long but what I should pay you, my dear John, if
God will be so good as to give me health as I told you in my last letter before
that came from Liverpool last week, and sooner is the better for me to come to
you, and I am sorry that passage is more than what you thought of and so the
money that you send is gon [sic] very little .
I hope that I should be happy with you and Elizabeth and MAB, and so my
kind love to them, and no mor [sic] at present from yours truly,
Edwin Benjamin
Edwin is on his way to America!
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