| Title: | [Mary Ann Frost?], U.S.A to Relatives, Ireland |
|---|---|
| ID | 1100 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Frost, Mary Ann/17 |
| Year | 1865 |
| Sender | Frost, Mary Ann |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housekeeper, dressmaker |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | writes to her family |
| Source | D 1152/3/29: Presented by Mr Charles Best, Mullaghglass, Bessbrook, County Armagh, Ireland. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9011026 |
| Date | 10/07/1865 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 06:12:1993 |
| Word Count | 517 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | [fragment] To: [Porter, Desert, County Down?] From: Chicago July 10th 1865 My Dear Granmother & Uncle & Aunt I once more take my pen in my hand to write to you a fiew [few?] lin-s [lines?] to let you know how we are all getting along hear [here?] in this part of the world I suppose you thought I would never write agane [again?] but such is not the case but I am real-y [really?] ashamed of my selfe [myself?] for not writing before now but I have wrote a letter twise [twice?] and was waiting for the address to send it and I did not get it untill [until?] it was two [too?] late to send it but it is beetter [better?] now than never and I hope yous [you?] well [will?] excuse me this time now I must write you some news in the first place it is allmost [almost?] two years since I received a letter from stating that you were married and I was very Glad to hear you are married and that you got in with a name sake of mine and I suppose by this time you have another one of the same name that is if it is a Girl and I hope it is and now I suppose I must tell you that I am married also but we have not any increase in our family I was married about nine months after you were. my Husband is an amacan [American?] and he is from Main [Maine?] and his naim [name?] is Hason Frost and after I #PAGE 2 married I kept house about one year and Sarah and Joseph both lived with me while I was housekeeping and I got a good chance to to [sic] and work at dressmaking whean [when?] Sarah was working and so I give up house and now we are bo-rding [boarding?] with an English family and Sarah Bo-rds [boards?] with us in the same house and we got a very pleasant place to bord [board?] and I think we like it quite as well as to keep house because rents is very high now in Chicago and provision is also rich we pay $11 per weake [week?] for my Husband and my selfe [myself?] and Sarah pays 4$ per weake [week?] and we furnish our own room and my Husband is in the Express buisness [business?] and we are getting along pretty well at present Joseph went home to Fathers last fall and he is now at home Hason and I went out to Fathers last sommer [summer?] and staid [stayed?] one weake [week?] and we would have had a very pleasant visit if it was not for the old woman but Sarah and I is going out this Sommer [Summer?] again to try her pations [patience?] for she dose [does?] not like our company any too well I have wrote all the news I know and I hope you will send all you Know Uncle and Aunt is well when I last he-rd [heard?] from them and Father and Uncle Speake [speak?] together now give my love to all my Uncles and Aunts and cousins #PAGE 3 and tell Aunt Mary Ann to |
