Brooklyn 28/12/83 [28 December 1883?]
Dear Uncle & Aunt
I hope this will
find you & the family in good
health I am sure you think it
strange I did not write before
this. Dear Aunt this country
is not what I thought it was
I was waiting from week to week
to see would things mend. My father
has not done two weeks work
since he came to the country
& I have done very little myself
I am sorry now I ever came
I have been very ill lately
& there is hardly a week but there
is some one sick my Father and
Mother are disgusted with the place
that is the reason I took no interest
in writing they intend to return
to sligo as soon as possible (there
are Hundreds here who would be glad
to get Back to Ireland if they could)
when I came here they were thinking
of going farther into the country but
have changed there [their?] minds since as
it would only make Bad worse.
I hope Henry Dugan has returned
and all has Been settled I called
to Robert Longs address the first
week I was here I was told he had
left. I could not find [dey St?] in
New York but there is a [day St?] and
I enquired there for gen [General?] Mulford
but they could not tell me anything
of him if I had got any news
of any of them I would have wrote
I hope Minnie is well
I suppose Henry & Martha
are getting along
I hope Annie & Ellen, Joe, Sarah, Kitty
Alice & last but not least Lillie
remember me to Anne
Love from all
No More at present
from your affectionate
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Nephew
Charles Mullen
we are still at
73 Vanbrant St
