| Title: | "Aunt Mary Miles", Baltimore to "My Dear Mary", [?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1767 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Miles, Mary/138 |
| Year | 1840 |
| Sender | Miles, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Destination | Ireland? USA? |
| Recipient | Mary |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | aunt-niece |
| Source | T 2305/36: Presented by South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9404157 |
| Date | 01/01/1840 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:04:1994. |
| Word Count | 302 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Bolltimore [Baltimore?] My Deare [Dear?] Mary I hope you will excuse the [?] I am a bought [about?] to take I feel fully convinced that you are not aprised [apprised?] of your Deare [Dear?] Mothers and sisters sittuation [situation?], thare fore [therefore?] I thought it my indespenciable [indispensable?] Dutty [Duty?] to acquaint you of thare [their?] sittuation [situation?] the [they?] have been treated in a moast [most?] cruewell [cruel?] manner so much so that the [they?] have been coppeled [compelled?] to leave your uncles house and return to live with us again it almost Broke your mother and sisters hary [heart?] she has not Been like her self [herself?] sience [since?] your uncle has got as stingy and close as he has been liberal poore [poor?], Eliza has been waring [wearing?] a bonnet 3 years and this winter was obliged to git [get?] it dyed Black as no other colour wold [would?] suit so ould [old?] a Bonnett [Bonnet?] from that you may Picture thare [their?] sittuation [situation?] you know My Deare [Dear?] Mary that it is not in my to assist them or I wold [would?] with Pleasure and not Insulte [Insult?] you I have Been wounded to the sole [soul?] to think that one of my relattions [relations?] should bee [be?] Dependent on one of husbands relations for a home after what has taken Place I hope you will not mention I wrote this letter is not one [?] but you and my self [myself?] knows any thing [anything?] of it. [?] as soon as you read the contents I wish [?] [?] as it [?] wold [would?] lead to a discovery that I [?] [?] time will not purmit [permit?] me to say [?] Present our family are in reasonable health at present I remain your Ever affectionate Aunt Mary Miles |
