| Title: | James A Smyth, Canada to "Dear Parents, Brothers & Sisters" |
|---|---|
| ID | 2747 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, James Alexander/27(2) |
| Year | 1894 |
| Sender | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | student |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Methodist) |
| Origin | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | writes to his family |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 0508007 |
| Date | 01/07/1894 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 19:08:2005. |
| Word Count | 935 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | [no envelope] [Page 1] South Woodslee July 1st 1894 Dear Parents, Brothers & Sisters Once more I take the pleasure of writing to you hoping the arrival of this note will find you all in good health. I am in good health and all the other folks are well I have been at the examination these last few days and I think I made marks enough to pass. We will not know how many marks we did make untill the latter part of August then the examiners will published [publish?] the number of marks and number in each subject The first day at 8.45am the inspector read over the rules which occupied 15 min. [minute?] Then Grammer [Grammar?] came for the first subject from 9 to 11 o clock am to Geography from 11.10 to 12.40pm then we had recess from 12.40 untill 2 o clock pm then from 2 o clock untill 4 we had Composition then from 4.10 to 4.45pm we had Dictation this ended the first day. The second day from 9 to 11 we had arithmetic then from 11.10 to 12.20 [page 2] we had Drawing then we had an hour recess and from 1.20 to 2.50 we had History from this untill 5.00 o clock we had reading The third day we had Literature from 9 to 11 o clock and from 11.10 to 11.40 we had writing then we got until 1.30pm for recess and from 1.30 to 3.00 we had Physiology and Temperance for neatness there are 35 marks allowed This is a sketch of the Programe you had to finish on the minute[?] no more time than the programme [Programme?] allowed As soon as I review my papers I will send them to you so you can see what way examinations are held here. I did not think any of the papers [sic] hard though some of them I did not make a very high mark on Arithmetic paper was easy and I know three of my answers are wrong but they [the?] examiners here does not call it wrong if they see you know how to do it The way I had the answers wrong I worked them first on scribbling papers and then copied them off in so doing I got the answer to one on the other or I might say I exchanged answers In the first question of making out a bill I took a number of bush wheat for lbs and that was my other mistake but I made a good mark after all [page 3] though I intended to make 100% on that subject I think I answered good on History Literature, and Physiology and Geography I have two papers on writing so I will send you it in this letter. In the three days work I wrote thirty sheets of Foolscap paper Literature I wrote six and History five these were the highest In history I did not know it extra well in the English and it asked for to give a short history of some men and I took Simon de Montford [Montfort} I knowed [knew?] a little about him and I guessed at the rest and I hit it good the others I wrote on was [sic] Gladstone and Oliver Cromwell Our literature lesson was [Yarron?] unvisited and others which you will see when I send them. There were 47 pupils tried at Belle River the most of them were French I distributed the papers to them all I handled a good many sheets. Us pupils from Woodslee had a good time yesterday evening after all was over we went down to the lake and we had pies and cakes and wanted for nothing we did not get home untill dark I think you will have enough news concerning this subject [Page 4] I suppose the 12 of July is comming [coming?] pretty close and these next few days will be spent in preparation for it I would liked to have been with you this year and at this time last year that was what I intended but I hope to get there sometime still I know you wont [sic] have any bigger day there than we will have here this year in the city of Windsor all the people from the state of Michigan and around there will be at Windsor so there will be a big day If this letter arrives before the twelfth you can give all the band boy [sic] and Orangemen my best respects and till then I am glad to see them keeping together so long as they have done and I hope they will conduct themselves in a suitable manner and I also wish them a happy day I would just like to give the drum the first roll, for them. I would not send any sharp letter to Cassie or any of them just let it drop as it is It is not a great benefit to either one so it is just as well not to say anything. I intend working a little for these next two months and then I will see about going on to High School Well if this letter is not long enough I will write a longer one next time The weather is very hot here now it was pretty hot in school I sweat a lot during the three days I will finish up now wishing you a merry twelfth good bye to all James A Smyth [Written upside down at the top of page 4] I think I will soon have to answer the girls writing I always leave them undone for a length of time I must answer Tilda Gilkison too Ja [James?] A Smyth Transcribed by Greg Floyd |
