Reference
X345/18
Title
Troy, New York State
Date free text
26 Sep 1882
Production date
From: 1882 To: 1882
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When I left St Armond in Canada, where I wrote from before, I went to St Albans in Vermont and worked in a rolling mill till they began to slack down, that was about 7 weeks, I made close on 18s a day, I work from 5 in a morning till 2.30 and then from 7 at night till 12, loading the rails, so I saved close on 50 dollars or £10. I told you to send my letter to St Albans because I intended going with the big P T Barnam's circus, the bigest in the world, there was 22 elemphants there and every kind of beasts and birds, he give 25 dollars and board a month, but it is hard times with a circus, and I went towards Richardson's to the city of Burlington in Vermont, then to city of Rutland, there is gold mines, they only paid 1$ 50 cents per day, so I did not stop. I went to Bellows falls and to Ashburnham, then to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, then to Lowell, the only job I could get there was where they was building a bridge over the Merimack river, you could not work in the wet weather, so I let it slip: from there to Boston, I was only 67 miles off Newport, so I went and see them and had good times, they was all well, only Mrs had a bad cold, but she said she would not come to Shillington to live for anything. I expected Ted Willson would be there, and he was, so me and Jet and Ted had a good time. It is a summer's resort, it is the most wonderful place, it seemed as hard leaving there as a home. I set sail for New York city, then I had to take another boat to Albany, and then to Troy, where I am. Jet wants me to come home next spring with him and Ted if we save enough. I am not without at 4-5. I meant to tell you I never had any scurvy since I left London. I was going to give you a description of fruit in Vermont, wild raspburry, strawburys, black grapes as big again as our tame ones, apple, cherrys, wild, any amount. Tell sisters and brothers how I am getting on. Send me a Bedforshire papers
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