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Title: Eleen [Ellen?] Quin, Barrytown, to Her Mother.
ID2180
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileQuin, Eleen/30
Year1878
SenderQuin, Eleen (Ellen?)
Sender Genderfemale
Sender Occupationunknown
Sender Religionunknown
OriginBarrytown, New York, USA
DestinationIreland
Recipientunknown
Recipient Genderfemale
Relationshipdaughter-mother
SourceD 1819/2: Presented by Samuel Park, Esq., The Square, Stewartstown, County Tyrone, [Ireland?].
ArchivePublic Record Office, Northern Ireland.
Doc. No.9012058
Date01/01/1878
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogAction By Date Document added by S.K., 17:01:1994.
Word Count299
Genre
Note
TranscriptDear mother i write to you now
hopeing [hoping?] to find you in good health
as this leaves me at present Dear
mother i beg your pardon and
hope you will forgive me for
taking Arthur away from you but
i dun [done?] it for the better for he can
do a great deal better here and his
family. he says he will be going
home in a year or so with his fortune
made and to take good care
of the place dear mother
I am talking myself about
taking a trip home this spring
to see you all their [there?] is nothing
will give me more pleasure
than to see you all I have
great company since Arthur
and the family has come
here I see them every
night I teell [tell?] you we have
some quare old chats about
home dear mother I send
you but a very small sum of one
pound for pocket money for your
self [yourself?] i know you do not stand
in any nead [need?] of it for Arthur
teels [tells?] me that he has left
you at a good [----?] I hope
that god will reward yous [you all?]
for all for the kindness
that you show to her
and i hope to see you
all soon Dear mother
Dear mother i want
you to drink our healths
as soon as you receive this
letter in hopes [hope?] that we
will all soon meet I
send my love to you and
all my brothers and sisters
and to all the children
no more at present
but remains your
affectionate daughter
Eleen Quin


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write as soon as you
get this letter and
let us know how you
are all doing
Barrytown [Duchescou-?]
State of Newyork [New York?]
for Arthur Quin