"Letter Between Campbell Brothers." (1850) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/75464

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Seguin Gadelope County October th14 1850

Daire brother I take this faberl opernity of righting
thaes fue lines to you hopinh that the will find
you and famly and all my reteleions in Joyeing
good health as this lave me at present thank
god I received yours of the 15 of August a fue days
a go and I was very glad to here that all was well
and very sory to here that the petote crops was
a bout to fale a gain on the a Count that I was
in hopes that sume wood be abel to Come to taxes
this fall it is hard for me to Comemand much meins
wiht out sackrefiseing property that I made
by hard worke and hardships wich I do not lake
to do. but if the ware here I Cold asiste them
to take a starte but I am makeing my araingements
for to asiste a many as I Can next fall to
Come to taxas I received a leter from brother
pat stateting that he will come and I rote to
him to come [[unclear]] right away and I think that he
beter Come and that will releve you sum and
I ntend to asiste brother petor and famly to come
next fall and brother micels widow and children
if the will live with me and I want her
to right me what the will do so as I will know
how to manage and you mentch in your leter
that sister rose was not in good health and I think
that shes betore stay with you for the prasent and
I will see how I will get a long and I may be

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be abel to asiste her some I recivede a long letor
from nail in July and I rote to him he give
me a rale siteing down for not riting hime but
when he see as much of the world as I have he will
be a betor Jude this is a very fine country and emegrace
is comeing in very fast and the farmers has
maid fine crops this seson and the have there crops
harvest all but there coten and suger and the
marked opens very faberle and priceise is good amen
Can tend twenty five ackers of land in this
Country with one horse and make from 40 to 50
busels of Corn to the acker and he Can selet
at fom 2 to 4 shilings per bushel and he Can
rase plenty of stock of all kinds cows and horses
and hogs and sheep if he wants to be side
and petote and wheit and evry thing that
he Can rass in Irland this is a free country
for evry man Can be a free holder if he will
try to and be a litel in doustry and we have
anether privilege here and is if a man hasnot
got shues he cCan go bere footed I am working
at my trade at present and Intende to
Continue working at it for one yare and all
that I make in to then with waht I have
to bring soume of reletefs to taxes from that
land of tryne and epresen where the Can
live in peese and not beharest by landslords
and ther agents nor poore rates we have no railment
poore pepel in this Contry for there is imploy

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for all that will work and good wages to [[unclear]]
them and when a man gets him a pise of lan
and opens him a farmm then he Can gather
evry thing a round him ait increase so fast that
he gets independent before he knwes it a man
that farmes it here can make from 2 to 4 pounds
dollars a yare and seport a famly be sides and
he Can sit aunder his one shade and that is
more thane a farmer can do in Irland for the
poore farmere is a poore slave to the nobility in
poore deprest irland Daire brother it greives me
to the harts to think that all has been slaves
to the landlords so long and when fall to
serve them well the will tourn you out of door
and then youd have to hount a new master or
perhaps go to the poorehouse we have now such
tryney in this land of independents and plenty
I think if pat will come this winter that i will
be all to Judge betor how to act I think that
a most all that Comes to taxas is not pleet
for the first yare or two and after that
the think that it is the best Contry in the worl
so I think that when pat Comes and sees that
he wood be a betore Judgs than me for I have
been here so long that I think that taxas is the
baste poore man is Contry in the world and as
for his wife she will not trobel me on the
a Count that this Country is large and wide
and I wonte trobel her much for I travel

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a goodal and I have no famly to trobel her
I think that if no bad louck comes in my way
that next fall I will be abel to raise one houndren
pounds for pashesish and bring as many out as I can
I think that brother tomas had beto come
with brother pat and make somthing for the
balens to live on when the Jet here prepare
the may be avesel Comeing to galveston and
it wood be beter for them to Come derect
to gaveston and then it will not Cost
much from galvston to port levack brother
petor rote to me in pat later that his lande
has giveing him warning to lave his land in
november which I am very sory for his sithetion
and I think that he had betor to make all
the preperations that he can and Come next
fall I am paying a man a bout 80 pounds
a yare to a man to tend to my stock and
I lose a nofe besides for to seporte a famly
Intend to start a new stock farm next spring
and the spring folwing I will tak my
stock back and then I will want help
to milk and tend to them and buter and
chees comands a good prise in this Country at
time and the I ladys wood mak anof to
seport the famlyse by buter and Cese