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From: "Judy A. Ollikkala" <>
Subject: [AYR] Who is this JAMES MORRISON?
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:41:21 -0500


24 December 1892, 30 Chatsworth Rd. Forest Lane, Stratford, London, England
Mr. George Caldow, Dear Friend,
"Who can tell Where fate may fling us
Who can future fortune dean
to tell at een what morning may bring us
Far exceed the Kin O Man"
Many thanks for your very kind and entertaining letter-its made me
proud to hear of your success-it was a great undertaking with a young wife
but a true wife is by far the best companion one chooses-it was noble of
her to go with you. I hope you will live and love together for many
changing years and that time will but make her more Dear if my own wife
would have left old England, America would long since been my adopted home.
I have been much preferred to come but the Guid wife would not think of it
and to take one away against her will is to make you more miserable as they
are always regretting even tho came, and instead of cheering you with a
bright happy face-you will die from the paper. Your friend Keir Hardie has
achieved the height of his ambition, as M.P. for South West Ham- his rival
shot himself Hume Webster committed suicide. I by some means have laid
aside your very kind and to me interesting letter, and I had to write your
Father for your address hence my long silence. I was truly glad to hear you
had been so successful and I hope you will endeavor to rise in your new
sphere-mind you are Climbing The Hill of Life and there is room enough at
the Top. A thought has struck me while I am writing that you might become a
Free Mason they are very powerful in America and believe me it is the
highest order of Religion. While I was Secretary for a lodge I signed as
such an address upon the Occasion of The Late President Lincolns 2nd grand
old Abba. You can think the matter over you can meet in good Society among
such good fellows-you can think this suggestion over. I have nothing of
much importance to tell you-what did your new friends think of Ringolds
opinion of Mr. Jay Gould-it was a well-merited open spoken opinion. V.
Carnegie is in my opinion not much better. Look at Pittsburgh today-his
____is nothing short of robbery. If you should ever get to the top keep
before you Burns advice-that the Hart is the Part that keeps us Happy long.
We are close drawing to the End of another year. Tomorrow is The Great
English Festival of the year. I presume that you shall receive this about
the New Years Day if so accept for all and Mrs. Caldow my Most Fervent wish
for a Guid New Year-Brimming full of Good Luck and cause no room for
repining and regret but only the loss of absent friends-I am glad to be
able to say that I am fairly well and all my Family and that I am just
writing you from among The Ivy and The Holly from Ballochmyle and Boswells
sent by my 2 friends John and Hugh Hood it awakens my happy early days
altho this Christmas is my 47th in London and those memories are still
green and it seems as if it was but yesterday. Now Good by and may you both
live and Love each through many changing Years and be spared to at some
future time to revisit your Native Land with The Auld-Auld wish a Guid New
Year to you Both and will be glad at any time when convenient to get a line
from you. Believe Me in past your sincere well wisher,
James Morrison


DEATH ANNOUNCEMENTS (Mailed to the USA from Catrine, notes edged in black)
Tuesday, 16th January 1894 at 4 Am Robina Morton aged 30 years, beloved
daughter of Mrs. Gall, who died at Ballochmyle Lodge, Catrine.

Wednesday the 21st March 1894 in Affectionate Remembrance of Margaret
Cameron Mitchell, aged 66 years, wife of John Mitchell, who died at Newton,
Catrine.

Sunday October 28th 1894 at 4:30 AM Susan Mcknight Reid, aged 24 years,
Mill St. Catrine (beloved wife of James Reid)

This is the last of the letters dealing with the romance of George Smart
Caldow and Annie Logan Ramage, who were married in Wilson Hall, Catrine,
Ayrshire, Scotland on April 25, 1892 and sailed for America on the
steamship "Ansonia" on the following day out of Greenock, Renfrew. I have
finished transcribing the diary George kept on the trip across the Atlantic
Ocean, and will begin posting it in sections next.
Judy Caldow Ollikkala

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