Frederick Paulin to Frederick Arthur Paulin, 2 Apr 1886

Hurst’s Temperance Hotel

Hood Street

Liverpool

April 2^nd 1886

 

My dear Fred

The enclosed came this morning addressed to me here.  It is doubtless intended for you written to go in another envelope but in the hurry enclosed in the one addressed to me.  You suspect will have the letter intended for me, but I shall know when I return the afternoon to AG.  Poor Mama is I know chaotic just now.  I left the voyagers 4 on the “Adriatic” yesterday afternoon, by my last tender afterwards immediately I took some food and then the boat down the Mersey to New Brighton and stood on the pier there as the “Adriatic” passed at 6:30 pm.  I waved and flew the coloured flag as I did when I left the “Adriatic” but I got no response so I suppose the voyagers were busy below. Our thoughts are always wondering to the lad of the Free – “To the West”

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And the general motivation in all round to migrate to you.  Will it be?

It is yet hidden in the “dim and distant future” – may it come out of the huge distance and become an absolute fact! I send you a dressing gown.  Fishers handkerchief and mama some like items.  I have told the voyagers that now amongst them we must have one letter at least weekly.

 

Much love from your affectionate father.

More about the SS Adriatic, which was the vessel mentioned in the letter above.  The voyagers he is talking about is Ernest and Emma Paulin, Amy Jennings and Herbert Paulin.