| Title: | Robert and Eleanor McKelvey, U.S.A. to Thomas Lewers, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1731 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | McKelvey, Robert and Eleanor/12 |
| Year | 1861 |
| Sender | McKelvey, Robert and Eleanor |
| Sender Gender | male-female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Williamsburg, New York?, USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Mrs Thomas Lewers and family |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | they write to their family |
| Source | Robert and Eleanor McKelvey, U.S.A. to Thomas Lewers, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9604008 |
| Date | 20/05/1861 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 04:04:96. |
| Word Count | 626 |
| Genre | |
| Note | (letter prob. penned by Eleanor) |
| Transcript | From Robert and Eleanor McKelvey, Williamsburg, U.S.A., to Mrs Thomas Lewers, Belfast. Williamsburg May 20, 1861. Dear Sister and Brother not forgetting sarah I now sit down to write a few lines to [---?] you to let you know the trouble that our country is in at present there is nothing but the crie [cry?] of war here and to see the Number of young men that has voilenteared [volunteered?] their service there is great excitement heare [here?] at present and it is not known when piece [peace?] will be proclaimed We are all well at present hoping that we will receive [receive?] the same news from you when you write to us Sarah we ought to wrote to you [sic?] all before this time Sarah I want you to tell me what you thought of Charlotte Jane likeness she is just one year old the 16 May I will send it again to Mother and have hir [her?] alone sarah I must praise hir [her?] she is a sweet baby Jane is well at present she sent hir [her?] likeness to you and roby Isabell sent hirs [hers?] To sarah Ann and agold [a gold?] ring she sent a little besket [basket?] that she knit to her aunt sarah and one basket to her grandmother my likeness and the baby went to you sarah I would dearely [dearly?] like to have thomos [Thomas?] and you and sarah Ann likeness when robert Clelland comes home Isabell wants hir [her?] cousin likeness very bad thomos [Thomas?] write soon and let us know how you are all getting along and how busisness [business?] is with you and how all our friends are getting along sarah I want to know how your health is and if you allways [always?] keep as lively as you ust [used?] to [...?] and if you are contented and hapy [happy?] in Mind there is nothing to make me unhapy [unhappy?] onely [only?] the far seperashion [separation?] we would all be happy if we were all Nearer to each other let me know how John and his famiely [Family?] is and how they are getting along I hope that John will change and be adifferent [a different?] Man as he knows the duty as a father lies on him now let me know how father arranged his affairs before death if maid [made?] a will or not sarah I have not time to write a long letter to you now for I have just set the children to take the paper of [off?] the walls while I write to you it is just Our time fore [for?] house cleaning and we are going to paper in the new I want to get cleaned as soon as possibel [possible?] as we expect a wedding of one of our friends soon sarah I intend to send for som [some?] silk with robert Clelland and then I thought better not but Robert wants me to send for it as it is so good a chanch [chance?] sarah I want to know if it would bee [be?] convient [convenient?] for you to get me 20 yards of black silk and send me on the bill with it and I would send you on the mony [money?] for it but if not convient [convenient?] it is all right [alright?] I was thinking that in belfast you could get it for two shilings [shillings?] a yard with a good luster [lustre?] on it sarah I want you to ask John if he would send andrew gun to [mountainmore?] he says his father told him he could have the gun I would like he would send hir [her?] to the little fellow with robert Clelland Roberts [Robert?] joines [joins?] me in sending our kind love to you all We remain your brother and sister to death Robert and Eleanor McKelvey. |
