| Title: | [?], Grange, [Co Tyrone?] to, B. M. Smyth, Castledamph |
|---|---|
| ID | 151 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Becky/74 |
| Year | 1900 |
| Sender | Becky |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Grange, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Plumbridge, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Bella M. |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 410279 |
| Date | 13/6/1900 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 29:10:2004. |
| Word Count | 365 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Envelope addressed to < Miss B. M. Smyth Castledamph Plumbridge Grange Sunday Evg. [evening?] My dear Bella, Can what I have been hearing really [sic] true that Willie Gilkinson is dead. Now I said you would surely have written and tell me. I cant realize it at all poor Tilda I am so sorry for her. I had a letter from M Duncan on I think Friday and she seemed to think I had heard all she [just?] said he had died in a short illness poor thing he seemed to be so strong & lifelike last time I seen him be sure now and write me so soon and tell me all as mother and each of us feel heart felt sympathy for all of you. Annie has written to poor Tilda she feels it terribly I am sure. and to see the old man living still it is wonderful. Dear Bella is the weather not just beautiful it seems hard that our loved ones should be called away altogether from us. And buried beneath the sod. But we know we have all to die and which one of us but has some loved one gone before. We would not live always away them and the father, I often repeat that verse in the beautiful old Hymn "A few more years shall toll" etc, the words are so beautiful. Now dear Bella I am writing this on my knee out in the field I am watching the cows for 1/2 an hour as we have not put them on the grass yet. So you must excuse the scrawl. Mother is down with Mary she went on Saturday a wee holiday, for her, I dont know when she will return. Mary was up at Easter and is looking right well if she had; had, her bicycle with her she would probably have given you all a surprise but she had not. How is your mother and father feeling, these times I wish they would come to see us. We had the Rev Steen down at the presbytery meeting in our church last week. They are trying to amalgamate first and second N.T. Stewart [Newtownstewart?] I dont know if he will succeed the Rev. Moore has asked leave to resign |
