Letter from James Neill to his son Samuel, recently enrolled as a boarder at Coleraine Academical Institution.
6 Sandy Row
Bangor
20 October 1904
My Dear Samuel,
I received your kind letter all right and although rather long in answering it you are often in my thoughts. I hope you are getting on well and that Mr. Houston and you are very good friends.
6 Sandy Row
Bangor
20 October 1904
My Dear Samuel,
I received your kind letter all right and although rather long in answering it you are often in my thoughts. I hope you are getting on well and that Mr. Houston and you are very good friends.
We are all well. Campbell is busy in the office. Wilson has not resumed duty since he came home only one day we talk of him going abroad but there is nothing settled yet. You asked me some questions in your letter but I think they are so stale now I need not answer them.
I am pleased to hear that you like the school and I hope you will soon be going in for a prize.
It was very kind of the Rev. Ekin asking Willie and you down to Portrush for a day you will have to ask Samuel to spend a holiday with you next summer.
I hope Rose sent you on the books you required.
Pigeons, horses, cows and dogs are all doing well. Mr. McGimpsey was here yesterday getting coal and he -went round to Mr. Hugh Fergusons and bought a cock for 10/- (Plymouth Rock) so it should be a good one at that price. ‘Helen’ is still running between Manchester, Liverpool and Belfast, doing very well. ‘Rosabelle’ left here on Wednesday for Maryport discharging in Dublin today. We will have all our potatoes up tonight. We will have a very good crop. I hope you get a walk into the country sometimes to see how things are doing.
I don’t know that I can tell you anything very much only that Robert Bowman and Robert Hanna left Bangor for New York on Monday.
With kind love to Willie and yourself from your affect. Father.
James Neill
I am pleased to hear that you like the school and I hope you will soon be going in for a prize.
It was very kind of the Rev. Ekin asking Willie and you down to Portrush for a day you will have to ask Samuel to spend a holiday with you next summer.
I hope Rose sent you on the books you required.
Pigeons, horses, cows and dogs are all doing well. Mr. McGimpsey was here yesterday getting coal and he -went round to Mr. Hugh Fergusons and bought a cock for 10/- (Plymouth Rock) so it should be a good one at that price. ‘Helen’ is still running between Manchester, Liverpool and Belfast, doing very well. ‘Rosabelle’ left here on Wednesday for Maryport discharging in Dublin today. We will have all our potatoes up tonight. We will have a very good crop. I hope you get a walk into the country sometimes to see how things are doing.
I don’t know that I can tell you anything very much only that Robert Bowman and Robert Hanna left Bangor for New York on Monday.
With kind love to Willie and yourself from your affect. Father.
James Neill