"Letter Between Campbell Brothers." (1841) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/75458.

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Seguin Gadelope County october th5 1857

Dair brother I take this opertunity of riting those
fue lines to you hopeing that the will find
you and famly and all my reletion in Joyeing
good as the leive me at present thanks be to god
I received yors of 4 of agust wich i was glad
to here that all was in good halth and very
for the feler of the crops you manchet in you
letor that you in tende to come to taxes and
I think that it is the beste thing that you
cold do and I think that youd betor come
as soon as posebel and get here in time
to mak a [[crop?]] and hanve something for
the balence to live on wen the come to taxes
I cannot make my arngements at the presen
time for to asiste any of them to come out
befor next fall and from what you state
I think that you and famly can come to tax
it donte tak so much to bring you to this
country as you sepose it I founds 10 shiling
from Liverpool to neworlans apese and from
neworlanes to forte levack a boat 26 shiings
and if youd get there without one peny
in yore pocked you will getlong for I
can meet you there at any and I wante
you & rite me whiter you ar coming or
not this witer so as I can make a rengeme
for you and have land for you to make

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a crop on and I think that thomas wood do
weel to come to and helpe me in brining some
of the balace to this country next yare for I
in tend pay one houndrad pounds for
pasis and bring as many out as I can for
I know that all wood do well in country
I the wood take my advise and the wood
get cleare of landlords and the agents for
evrye farmer is his one landlorde and what
he makes he can keep or sell as ples and aman
that will worke half as hard he has to do
In Irland wood get ritch in fue yarse and
be independent I wante you to see brother
macke widow and children and tel them to 
rigt to me whither the wood come to taxes
or not and what sikemstanse is and if the 
will and live with that iwill try to
get them out nexte fall I thing that now
is the time for you to come for if you stop
to next fal you mayent be [[any?]] betor abel
to come than you ar now and peraps not
as well of I ampaying aman a boute 80
pounds a yare for to take care of my
stock and I lose a nofe bsides to seporte a 
famyl evry yare it don’t taka man long
take a starte in this county for a comen 
laber can get 2 shilings a day by the yare
and mecaneicke can make from 6 to 12 shil
a day so you may joude for youre self

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wich is the country I will asiste you
the first yare and then you can make
plenty and I donte think that you will ever
regrte comeing but you will be sory that
you di not come sevrl yarse ago we can rase
evry thing here that you can rase in that
contry and I think that you had betor living
a feu patatees here for seed and I dont think
that it is much use to bring many articl
with you only what you need as you say that
your meins limented when you get to nworlens
right me and I can meet you at porte levacka 
in Cannedey Dave brother I want you say
brother petor that I feel sory for his sitution
and for hime to do all he can on tel next fall
and that i will asite him as much as i can to
come to this land of freedom and plenty
and where evry man is his one lord and
peer I am sory that i canat mak it connenient 
to a sist him in comeing with you
but he must be of good cher and do all
to in crice his pile for next fall and I 
can give thim as much land as he and all
can coultevate and as many cows as the
can milke and as many hogs as the can ten
to if the were all the now I could imploy
them and I will make it convenent
to give them all imploymen when the do
come

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I Dont think the will be any difeculty 
in geiting pashes to nworlanes on the cont
there will be a goodail of freet to and from
nworlanes there is ragler packeds for port
levack and nworlanes I cold make a houndrd
pounds a yare if I had any man
to tend to my bisness so as I could
worke at my trade and in afue yarse be abel
to bring all of y brothers and sister
and fly to this country and asiste them
in taking a tart all is wanton is in one to
mak a start a I hope that you will set
the exampel and leave that land of tirne
opreso I want you to give my love to
all for the ar newomes for me to mench
and the one tenth I never seen but I hop
see sone if one dont start you will never
thee and starve in that poor country and 
your children on the a connt that youans [[all?]]
thank that there is now place lake night
when you have ben cradelt and that you 
could not make a liveing any were else