• Reference
    X345/26
  • Title
    Liverpool (Mersey Mission: Sailors' Institute)
  • Date free text
    21 Aug 1885
  • Production date
    From: 1885 To: 1885
  • Scope and Content
    Last night I put in a hard night for the 2nd night, walking the streets of wicked and selfish Liverpool. I ought to be ashamed of myself for writing for money, a think I made up my mind I never wood do, a man never knows what he can do before death, but I was rather surprised at you sending it. May God help you and prosper you on this world, which I know he will do, and in the world to come I hope we will all meet. I feel often, though I never had a spark of religion in my soul, that I should like to, for fear we might never meet on earth again. With all the teaching I have had, I feel somtimes worse than the heathens in Arizona and the Indian territories. You don't know what you have done for me by sending - perhaps it has saved me from jail (that I was in 7 years ago next December). I am sure you have saved me from the workhouse - I had made up my mind to go in tonight rather than starve. I will pay you double. There is a great difference in England and some parts where I was working for wages; the eastern states are done; that is where all these emigrants keep stoping instead of going in the far west. You said you was sorry I had returned to the old country in such unfaverable circumstances; so am I, dear parents, but when I left Hoboken I was in a pretty good fix; but treating in Hull run away with most of my money. Dear parents, I am much obliged to you for the clothes, as I don't need them, being has there is no work. It would be to much expence to come home, you said I should be welcome, I know I should be welcome, but I don't intend to have off my parents what I cannot pay back. I am glad that Harry is doing well, you did not tell me about my dear sisters and Chal and John.
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