| 词条 | Margaret McCarthy letter |
| 释义 |
I write these few lines to you hoping That these few lines may find you all in as good State of health as I am in at present thank God. I received your welcome letter to me Dated 22nd of May which was A Credit to me for the Stile and Elligence of its Fluent Language but I must Say Rather Flattering. My Dr. Father I must only say that this is a good place and A good Country for if one place does not Suit A man he can go to Another and can very easy please himself But there is one thing that's Ruining this place Especially the Frontirs towns and Cities where the Flow of Emmigration is most, the Emmigrants has not money Enough to Take them to the Interior of the Country which oblidges them to Remain here in York and the like places for which Reason Causes the less demand for Labour and also the great Reduction in wages. Margaret McCarthy ({{birth based on age as of date|23|1849|09|07|noage=1}} – death date unknown) was an Irish migrant to the United States. On September 22, 1850, she wrote a letter to her family, as a guide for other emigrants.[1][2] She explained that once in the United States, moving west was very expensive, though she did not know that those who did go rarely had an improved standard of living.[3] Her letter is typical of that of many immigrants, containing optimism about her own condition, and concern for the family and people she left behind.[4][4] BiographyShe was born to Alexander "Sandy" McCarthy, a carpenter for the Crown Estate who lived in Boherboy, Ireland, and his wife, Neil.[1] McCarthy travelled from Kingwilliamstown in County Cork to Nohavaldaly, near Kanturk, during the Irish Potato Famine.[5] She left from Liverpool, England, on September 7, 1849, on the Columbus, and arrived in New York City, United States, on October 22 of that year.[6] References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.mayolibrary.ie/en/LocalStudies/Emigration/LetterSamples/|title=Letter Samples|publisher=Mayo County Library|accessdate=October 16, 2017}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910|first=Esther|last=Crain|date=September 27, 2016|isbn=9780316353687|page=211|publisher=Hachette Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56yTCwAAQBAJ|via=Google Books}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader|first=David M. P.|last=Freund|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|date=February 16, 2015|isbn=9781444339000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quhdBgAAQBAJ|via=Google Books|page=51}} 4. ^{{cite book|title=Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists|last1=Grinnell|first1=Jennifer|last2=Conley|first2=Alston|publisher=McMullen Museum of Art|location=Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts|url=https://archive.org/details/redressingcathle00grin|via=Internet Archive|page=132}} 5. ^1 {{cite book|title=New Directions in Irish-American History|first=Kevin|last=Kenny|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|date=2003|isbn=9780299187149|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EopWeGItUYQC|via=Google Books|page=216}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=https://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/689|title=An Irish Emigrant to New York Writes Home|work=HERB: Resources for Teachers|accessdate=October 16, 2017|publisher=City University of New York}} 5 : Letters (message)|1850 documents|English-language works|Works by Irish people|Works about immigration to the United States |
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