| Title: | James A Smyth, Ontario to "Dear Brother" |
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| ID | 2781 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, James Alexander/47 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Methodist) |
| Origin | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, John Charles |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 507017 |
| Date | 03/12/1893 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 16:08:2005. |
| Word Count | 415 |
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| Transcript | [No Envelope] [page 1] South Woodslee Dec 3 1893 Dear Brother In answer to your letter which I received Friday Nov [Dec 1?] I am glad to say we are all well. I got left off work on Nov. 25th so I stopped at Annie's in St Thomas untill [until?] Friday and then I came up here Miss Amelia Allison one of Charleys sisters is down with Annie so I had a [page 2] good time while I was there I did not expect to get left off so soon but I would have to quit for a while anyway as I have a sore arm I had a boil on my hand or wrist about Three weeks ago it Broke once and it started again so I put a bottle with hot water in it to draw it and I drawed [sic] it to [too?] much burned it all so there is about an inch round of raw flesh I got a box of ointment for it [page 3] from a Doctor in St Thomas on Monday last and it [sic] not much better yet it is to [too?] sore to work any I did work the last week before we was [were?] left off but I think it would [sic] been better I had not I used it but as little as possible it is my right arm it is [sic] all I can do now is right [write?] with it I can play the fiddle too with it There was a Murder in St Thomas on Wedsnday [Wednesday?] night an old man of the name of Robt [Robert?] Allin [Allen?] his throat was cut from the windpipe round to the left ear [page 4] He was a horrible sight to look at It was the first murdered in that way that or any other way that ever I seen I seen him just as he lay before ever he was lifted He was lying quite a long way from where he was killed and there was no trace of blood between places some men think he commited [committed?] suicide but he would not (sic) got to where he was if he had my opinion is he was killed and dragged in front of Mr Burrage [sic] house for some purpose the place he was killed the grass was deeply staind [stained?] [These lines are written in the space at the top of page 2] I suppose I write often enough now I have sent toone [to one?] and another pretty near a letter every week Write soon again Jas [James?] A Smyth [Written at top of letter and in different ink Arrived here 18th 1893 December Arrived 18 1893] Transcribed by Alan Houston |
