Letter from Richard Golden to Jasper Golden , no date but prior to leaving Ireland

 Dear Jasper, W. Cooper did not speak about any of   your money but  we did not do anything nor even showed him the order left for fear he might sue for the remainder. We paid no rent in March if we can get time til the rent is called   in harvest we will be compelled to pay a years rent it will fail us to make it on butter up to that time, we have Cess also to make up in summer and we will want a little provision. It would be also needful to buy some wool for  frize you know it would be late at January when you say you would send us help so we think if ye could send about 6 pounds as fast as ye can after receiving this letter it would answer better than to wait for all to January. There is also a bill still due to John Brett about 50. We must pay it about harvest to sell any of our cattle would be breaking ourselves in many ways for two of them are sprippers (stupprs?) they will go twice as much when they are calving in winter & spring. My Mother takes some spirits constantly to take a pain in her   head now & then she acts ascending to the rule you prescribed. We were not driven for rent   since ye went and I hope will not either when W. O’Brian sends an enclosure we are still living in peace and quietness both in the family & with the neighbours. May the Lord Bless ye & us til we meet beyond the water. Sarah did to send us a paper of a long time. Your last words are still sounding in my Mother’s ears we still remain ye in our prayers. I suppose we cannot avoid doing so til we must if it is the will of the Lord   we be. All spared til that day I must conclude.  , Jasper & sisters may the Lord Bless ye , Richard Golden