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Title: James Houston, Eden, to “Dear James
ID1483
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileHouston, James/97
Year1898
SenderHouston, James
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationfarmer
Sender Religionunknown
OriginEden, Illinois, USA
DestinationEssex, Ontario, Canada
RecipientSmyth, James Alexander
Recipient Gendermale
Relationshipfriends
SourceCopyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com
ArchiveMr & Mrs J Smyth
Doc. No.604004
Date19/10/1898
Partial Date
Doc. TypeLTE
Logunknown
Word Count280
Genre
Note
Transcript[Page 1]
Eden
Oct 19th 1898

Dear James,
I received your kind and
Welcome [welcome?] letter which
I was very glad to here [hear?]
that you are doing so well and
that you passed your examination
it is grand work of you to be
so clever. Dear James I hope you
will be spared your health and
grace and when a person has

[Page 2]
grace and trust in providence
the [they?] will get through.
my brother Willie has gone to
Scotland again and very little
change on him for the better
always drinking the beer for
want of Grace and asking to
providence to guide him the
Lord might change him yet as
I trust in his mercies he will
I suppose you always think a
little on the folks at home

[Page 3]
the [they?] are all well, I
be over occasionly [occasionally?]
and the boys gave me a good helph
[help?] this year in the hay and
I am sure if you had been at home
you would not forget me either.
Dear James - wasnt [wasn’t?] it
great work of James Gorden
[Gordon?] to leave Eden I thought
he never would have left it is
great of him to


be in the Maiden’s city
[Maiden City?] and he looks like
a gentleman and his situation
agress [agrees?] the very best with
him. You [your?] friends the
Duncans is nothing mended yet I
think the [they?] are getting
foolisher every day and I suppose
your oun [own?] people tells you
about them but they are not
much use in talking about them as
the [they?] think the [they?] are
all right and is [sic] doing well

[Written at top of Page 1]
Write soon again and on no
account don’t forget
James Houston


Transcribed by Tony Flanagan