From William Wright   Sep. 6th 1840.

Roscrea¹ Sep. 6th 1840.

My dear John

Few moments for the last six months has given me greater pleasure than those I experienced on the receipt of your letter² of this morning week It has been a great cause of uneasiness to me of late that I should have so slighted your kindness. But all is now past never to be remembered. Oh, if I was near you now I would give your paw such a shake as that you would remember it for years to come.

I am glad to find that the fair sex has made some impression on you,³ I hope you will not let it slip; if you do take my word for it that you will be sorry, although I have had very little experience about the women so that I am a bad judge. But this I know, that opportunity once lost can never be recalled, so keep tight to the work and do not for a moment relax your hold.

When I had the pleasure of seeing your father in Carlow I had an intention of accepting a situation in Cork which had been offered me by a brother-in-law of Thomas’s,⁴ but some engagements which my present master had engaged in prevented me, along with engagements of my own with one of the fair ones which I am determined to fall or rise by. In my next I will give you a more lengthened detail of my intentions. I am sorry that it is not in my power to give you a description of Roscrea, my pen, or scribble as I should call it, would fall short of giving you an idea of the ugliness of it and the surrounding country. In short it is the most wretched place that I have had the good luck to be in. You will oblige me by giving my respects to the ever to be remembered L Bridge⁵ folk which are along with you in Youghal. Mind Jack keep up a constant fire upon me with your kind letters and I hope we will never fall in to our old error again. Farewell and may you be always as well as I wish. Do not forget but let me have one from you shortly

Yours truly | William Wright.

RI MS JT/1/11/3883

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