| Title: | G Kirkpatrick, Kingston, Ontario, to Alex [Kirkpatrick?] |
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| ID | 1623 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Kirkpatrick, George Airey/25 |
| Year | 1859 |
| Sender | Lit. Col. Sir George Airey |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | army officer, barrister |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Craigs, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Rev Alexander Kirkpatrick |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | D.1424/11; Purchased From Mr. John A. Gamble, 44 Taunton Avenue, Belfast. #TYPE EMG Letter From George Kirkpatrick, Kingston, Ontario, to His Cousin Alexander [Kirkpatrick?], [County Antrim?], 11 October 1859 |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9004025 |
| Date | 11/10/1859 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 25:04:1990 SS created 20:08:1990 SB input 21:08:19 |
| Word Count | 478 |
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| Transcript | To Alexander [?] [no location] Kingston Oct [October?] 11th/59 [1859?] My dear Alexander you must have thought I was never going to answer your letter received now a long time since but the post is up in the backwoods there was nothing to be told that could possibly interest anyone. I am sending you a piece of a fossil which I got from a piece of limestone brought from a quarry a long way from where I lived, it is evidently the work of an insect it has a very long name but I have forgotten it I was sorry the quarries were so far off as I believe there were a great many different kinds of shells in them but we were kept so busy at home that I never got a day to myself Rutherford & I were in New York some time back it is certainly a very fine city but after seeing London Liverpool & Dublin one is not so surprised at the immense number of people as they otherwise would. I was very much disappointed in Broadway it is not nearly so wide as Dolier Street in Dublin but the hotels are magnificent and well managed, we stayed at the Union Place Hotel a small one in comparison to some of the others & I can safely say I never was in a better kept one, the people staying there were mostly Southerners - I was charmed with them, they are so very different from the Yankees. The Provincial Exhibition took place a fortnight ago in Kingston at which Minnie was fortunate enough to get first & second prizes for water colour paintings she paints beautifully- There was to have been a balloon ascent but Mr La Mountain the aeronaut went up in his balloon the day before at Watertown & was not heard of for days he was given up for lost but was found at last 150 miles due north of Ottawa in a starving condition having been four days with only [one?] frog to eat. The New Yorkers are building an immense balloon with which to cross the Atlantic. I believe there are more than an hundred applications for passages. They expect to cross in forty eight hours but whether they will land in Africa or near the North Pole they are rather undecided as yet. How do the farming operations turn out this year, in this country there has been a very good harvest & farmers are in high spirits in consequence If you ever see Harry [Seth?] tell him Harry [Lowe?] is quite well, he was down here a short time ago with his brother but they have both gone back to the [Mist?] again- give my best love to Uncle Aunt & George & Believe me my dear Alex ever your affectionate Cousin Geo [George?] B Kirkpatrick Thank George for his letter I will answer it soon Geo. [George?] B. Kirkpatrick 14 Oct [October?] 1859. |
