| Title: | Mrs McLean, Detroit to "Dear Friend Annie", [?]. |
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| ID | 1910 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Mrs McLean/23 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Mrs McClean |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT39 0SA. |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9905033 |
| Date | 19/06/1893 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 12:05:99. |
| Word Count | 482 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | th Detroit June 19 1893 Dear Friend Annie This is Sunday again and you are I suppose in Mid Ocean this time last sunday evening we were having a loud time Pa is so lonesome he has gone to bed it is very lonesome without you Maggie and I were to church this morning but it has been such heavy showers we are afraid of beign[being?] caught in it well Annie I had to go to bed all day after I got home that day I run so hard for Marys coats now what kind of a time did yous have on your trip to New York did you mash any or did James get off the handle and what time did you's get there we said Thursday morning you's must be good and tired just then Pa said I would give anything just now to see Annie if he was not lonesome no one ever was he says I have no one to poke at me at the table he says I wonder if she will ever come to stay a little while again what a good time we had I have seen Tomie but not to speak to him John says what a time he will have primping up to have his picture taken for you I beleive[believe?] I shall never forget the ice cream and cake Maggie says it is like a dead house she just kept from crying and that was all how we all missed you of course the rest we miss to[too?] but it is a rest from Mary's fussing and Packing will you ever forget it Now Annie dont fall in love with that [widow?] of yours and never come back to us again how did the Rubbers fit and caps on ship board did you's get in the hole with the Engineer or Fireman or did yous make those grand mashes I hope you found your Ma and all the rest of the family well did you surprise them and steal a march on them Tell me how everything went off I suppose you will be safe and sound when you get this were yous sea sick at all was James or how did you's get along did you's eat with Gentlemen Oh dear I suppose Tomie thinks it is a year [to?][Annie?] comes back his life has been lonely long enough poor old thing how he must suffer well Pa is gone to work and it looks like rain I have no new news yet for I have not seen any one I wrote to Miss Harrison I told you started soon after she was here now write soon and excuse this scribble I have not done much to my dress for I have been so sick I had the washing and ironing to do I gess [guess?] I will have it ready for 12 July Mrs McLean 5 Dazelle St |
