| Title: | [J A Smyth?], South Woodslee to ‘Dear Sisters’ |
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| ID | 2776 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, James Alexander/44 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | railway worker? |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Methodist) |
| Origin | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | a sister, not Eliza C. |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 0511041 |
| Date | 05/11/1893 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | |
| Word Count | 391 |
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| Transcript | [no envelope] South Woodslee Nov 5th 1893 Dear Sisters In answer to your letters which I received last night when I came here I am glad to know that you are all in good health We are all well here I have been here every Sunday this last month Aunt is down in St Thomas I was in their [there?] Thursday night Annie has another young son on Monday 30 ult [page 2] I saw the little fellow Thursday night I saw Tillie McIllwaine [the?] same night The last letter I wrote was just after I came from the Worlds Fair I see in the papers now it’s all over There has been a lot went to the fair that did not come back alive I suppose you might have seen it in the papers about the wrecks on the railroads One on M.C.R.R. at Jackson Mich [Michigan?] and one on the grand Trunk railway Battle Creek Michigan 30 people killed We all got back safe the girls did not come back for a week after us [page 3] There was a young ladie [lady?] from Chicago came with them she is here yet I see By your letters that the people over their [there?] is [sic] not gitting [getting?] any bitter [better?] yet fighting and quarreling All the time gitting [getting?] worse in place of better one would think it strange when they do not see none [any?] of this for two or three years If you take my advice [let?] over burn ones say what the [they?] like and dont pay any attention to it dont argue with them and then you will have no bother thats what I would do show them how little the [they?] know [page 4] It would be a disgrace such fighting and calling name [names?] in this Country Working on the Railroads is a dozen steps higher but they are all Irish that accounts for it If some of them had as much money as Railroad men has they would carrie [carry?] a high head The weather is very nice here at present Uncle is husking his corn William and Tommy has [have?] quite a lot of sheep to winter this year I dont [don’t?] know how many should I have now I suppose I will have to buy my own stock if ever I get Back there again Eliza says that Rabbit cage is nothing [letter incomplete] Transcribed by Greg Floyd |
