| Title: | Robert Peel Dawson, Montreal to his parents. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2107 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Peel Dawson, Robert/126 |
| Year | 1839 |
| Sender | Peel Dawson, Robert |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | army officer |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son-parents |
| Source | T 850/1: Obtained from Mrs Brackenbury, Moyola Park, Castledawson, Co. Londonderry. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 8950014 |
| Date | 02/06/1839 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 25:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 308 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Montreal June 2nd, 1839 My dearest dearest Parents, How all my thoughts, affections & wishes have during this day been centered in you! I have fancied you & my brothers assembled together & desiring for me every possible good on this my attainment of the age of Twenty-One. From my birth I have received from you kindness, affection & care unequalled and my anxious desire from this moment will be, to evince my grateful sense of your goodness & to endeavour in every way permitted to me, to repay it. How delighted I should have been to have passed to this day with my beloved parents & brothers & to have seen no one but them, but as that pleasure has been denied me, I shall at all events tell you what have been my occupations. In the morning my Company was ordered to attend the Roman Catholic Church. High Mass was celebrated. To conciliate the inhabitants, Sir John Colborne ordered the Troops to be present on this (Palm Sunday) whilst the ceremony of Raising the Host was performed. This lasted five hours. In the afternoon we of course went to the Protestant Church & this occupied us till nearly the hour of dinner. My health was proposed & drank with full honours. I have sent for my dearest Mamma as testimonies of my devoted affection & as remembrances of this day, different articles of American Work. They are executed by the ancient Tribe & come all the way from the far west, some thousands of miles from hence. I know that they will be valued & accepted as proofs that I appreciate with gratitude all my dearest Mamma's kindness & affection. I can never express half that I feel on that subject. Give George the Cigar Case with my best love. Your most affectionate & attached son, R.P. [Robert Peel?] Dawson. |
