| Title: | [James A Smyth?], Ontario to "Dear Parents" |
|---|---|
| ID | 2746 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, James Alexander/27 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | manual labourer |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Methodist) |
| Origin | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, John J. and wife |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | son-parents |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 0511049 |
| Date | 16/07/1893 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | |
| Word Count | 451 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | [no envelope] [incomplete letter] [Page 1] South Woodslee July 16 1893 Dear Parents In reply to your letters which I received to day I am glad to know that you are all well Your letter of 15 got here about the 26 and Bella Maggie and one from Eden on July 11 It is a month to day since I was up here before so the letters was [were?] all here for me when I came You wanted to know if I came to Uncles every night If I would get up every Saturday night I would do well I do get up every Saturday except when I am [page 2] working West of St Thomas But I am working East now and I cannot get up as Often There is no danger in the work I am at not the least I like the job well for I get seeing a lot of the Country I was at Niagara Falls this day three weeks so I got another sight of them I saw a man one day on my travels [travels?] by the name of Mc Illwaine (I forget his other name) When he heard where I was Frome [from?] he said that was where he came from he lived in that house in Derbrough [Dergbrough?] of Master Campbell Thos Campbell I think he said was an Uncle of his he is 49 years in this Country [page 3] Thos Campbell brother Joseph came out with him he told me the last work he done [did?] there was help John Stark to carry in a stack of Oats That is the only man I have met yet that is anyway near home I was thinking that this Joseph Campbell was the man that Thomas was going to send the Sticks to The weather is very hot here now there is a thunder storm this evening it will cool it down a little You need not be uneasy if you do not get letters regular It is a month now since I wrote before I am glad to know that you have got drums and flag [page 4] I suppose you looked grand on the Twelth I would liked to have been there when they were all at Plumbridge It must have been a great day Give me all the news in your letter and how the Drums sounded who beat them and how many Band boys was there I made this old flute sound this last month I worked all day I could got away but I would lost a days pay and it would took [take?] $2.00 more to take me there and back so I did not go I suppose If I was at home I would not think much of lossing [losing?] a day Transcribed by Gordon Drummond |
