| Title: | Hester Habersham, Georgia, to H. Lawrence, Coleraine |
|---|---|
| ID | 1289 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Habersham, Hester/6 |
| Year | 1772 |
| Sender | Habersham, Hester |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | middle-class housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Georgia, USA |
| Destination | Coleraine, Co. Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Lawrence, Helen |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | D955/13: Deposited by Messrs Martin, King, Trench & Ingram |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9904038 |
| Date | 29/03/1772 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 07:04:99. |
| Word Count | 609 |
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| Transcript | [badly damaged letter] I take this opportunity of writing to you by Mr. Kay, who is returning to his friends in Belfast. I received your agreeable letter of the 8 December which I assure you is the first I have had from you these eighteen months though I have wrote to you by many opportunities. If my dear Helen knew the pleasure it gives me to hear from her I am sure she would write often. I am happy to hear you are safely recovered and am much obliged to you for giving me another young nephew and must now inform you I have returned you the compliment by giving you a niece. I was, thank God, safely delivered the fourth of this month of a fine little girl, who I intend calling Mary after her grandmama Habersham, who was by all accounts an amiable woman I should have called it after you and my dear mother but think every compliment in my power to pay my dear Mr. Habersham too small a return for his goodness to me. My little James is a lovely boy and is great company to me, as he runs about and says everything he hears. I had a letter some time ago from my brother Gaylard when he informs me he has got full pay. I am happy to hear it, as it will enable them to live very comfortably. I suppose by this time my dear Sally has got another little one. My dear sister, I would have wrote to Mr. Campbell to have known the reason your legacy was not remitted to you, but they are at present in heavy trouble as they have lost their only daughter about two month ago. She died in childbed. I will write soon and let you know. I beg you will write to me soon as I can't well understand by your letter whether old Mr. Mackey has left my dear little John anything or not, as there is wrote on the outside of your letter that he has left him five thousand pounds and two hundred a year during his life, but as it does not look like your writing, I can't be certain whether it is really so or not. As for Mr.Irwin's behaviour to the child I am not the least surprised as it was much the same to myself. I should be glad to know what situation they are in for I still can't help but having a great friendship for both him and her. I wrote to her a little after I came here, but never had any answer. I am sorry to hear of poor Molly Given's death. She was a worthy girl. I suppose Charlot takes great [?slate] on herself. Poor Nancy is likely to die an old maid. Let me know all the news by the first opportunity and how Jenny Allen does. I suppose she is turned quite an old woman and can't spare time to write to her old friends. I would write to her now, but cannot at present undertake so much, as my eyes are not strong enough. My brothers are all well and Dick's wife will soon make you an aunt. He is happily married as she is a sweet tempered woman. Allick [Alex?] is quite affronted at you for not writing to him. When you write you had better send your letters to both Maky's care, as Mr G[?] is seldom in London and the letter lies at his house. I would have wrote to my dear brother Lawrence by this opportunity but think it is the same which I write to you.... |
