| Title: | John S Sinclair, California, to Margaret Graham, Draperstown |
|---|---|
| ID | 2472 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Sinclair, John Stevenson/11 |
| Year | 1889 |
| Sender | Sinclair, John Stevenson |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Healdsburg, California, USA |
| Destination | Draperstown, Co. Derry, N. Ireland |
| Recipient | Graham, Margaret |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D1497/1/11: Presented by Mrs W. Patterson, Magherafelt Rd, Draperstown |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9408085 |
| Date | 05/03/1889 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:08:1994. |
| Word Count | 615 |
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| Transcript | Healdsburg 5 March 1889 Margaret I thing [think?] long to hear from you I sent you [My?] letters and this one I expect a nanser [answer?] from you I will be in old Ireland in Summer and I will tell you all about Cal [California?] tell [P?] Heron David John that I will let them teast [taste?] a little Cal [Californian?] Brandy and I will have plenty of tobbacco [tobacco?] I will stop one night with each of them the are two I will be glad to see I will only stop 1 sunday in Sixtowns I want to Hear [for?] Hugh Forde in Sixtowns and Draperstown you can tell Hugh Forde that I will her [hear?] Him in the two Churchs I expect that the will not be many that will know me in Draperstown in the Sixtowns I will no [know?] plenty that will not no [know?] me the will not be expecting me to I slept in the Church that may be the first place I will go to Draperstown Church I will meat [meet?] the Sixtowns peopal [people?] goying [going?] to prayers I will drive up to David John and turn back I want to see as many as I can John Stevenson Sinclair dos [does?] not belong to great Britten [Britain?] anny [any?] more I belong to the United States of America and the united states will see me all right as long as i will stop in old Ireland or England I dont care one cent what goying [going?] on in great Britten [Britain?] I belong to the best country in under the Sun Cal [California?] Margaret I want to tell you the leanth [length?] I have to go 7626 miles to liverpool the rest of the roads I can not tell you I trust your farther [father?] and morther [mother?] is well and all the family I will be glad to see your Farther [Father?] and Morther [Mother?] you no [know?] that I Have but few friends in Sixtowns and I no [know?] them and I will call and and see every one of them I never see them again it the first and last visite [visit?] evere [ever?] I will make in old Ireland I like to live in a free country I am got used to it now I wood [would?] not live in a cold country I kood [could?] not stand the cold any more no snow this winter Heas [he is?] just like summer in Ireland only not so much [----?] the ground dry and very dry we wood [would?] head [had?] sean [seem?] very bead [bad?] just now it was a dry winter and I trust that I will get a dry mounth [month?] when I land in old Ireland I will drop in un [on?] some of my cousins before the Know that lives in Tyrone I will not stop long in Sixtowns on week I only can stop 4 weeks I will Have return ticket I have to see Robert [like?] I will spend 1 week thear [there?] I Have my cawlings [callings?] places all lead [laid?] of I trust my friends will all be well I wood [would?] not like to see them cick [sick?] I have but few I will be in Sixtowns in 1889 I left in 1879 and you Will not no [know?] me and you will see if you do I will look out for tilda Combs she will not see me passing by I will beat tilda if I can I will bid you goods by I will rite [write?] 1 letter that all to I start good by Margret rite [write?] soon John Stevenson Sinclair all well |
