| Title: | M. Smyth, Ontario, to J. J. Smyth, Co Tyrone |
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| ID | 2950 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Mary/27A |
| Year | 1902 |
| Sender | Smyth, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | student |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Presbyterian) |
| Origin | Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Castledamph, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | writes to her family |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 503018 |
| Date | 9/7/1902 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 785 |
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| Transcript | [Front of Envelope] Mr. J. J.Smyth Castledamph Plumbridge Co Tyrone Ireland [Stamped] SOUTH-WOODSLEE My 9 O2 ONT [Back of Envelope] [Stamped] WINDSOR 20 JY 9 02 ONT NEWTOWNSTEWART AM 5 0 JY 20 02 [Page 1] South Woodslee, July 9th 02 Dear People:- Rec. [Received?] your letter of 26th. yesterday glad to know that you are all well. I see you were like all others disappointed on the 26th. I was out to Leamington on July 1st there was to be a great day there but there was so much rain here before it that the ground was too wet for races or any games. There was a baseball game but we did not go to [Page 2] see it. Glenn & Leslie & I went down town after dinner and heard the band play and that was all. Annie & I went to the concert at night. Some good singers there. Glenn & Leslie came out here with me the next day 2nd. They are enjoying themselves here. Next day after they came there was a terrible storm in the night thunder & lighting and rain but I never heard anything. On the morning the river was all over I never saw such a flood in it before and the land is so level it runs all over. The road here was about two ft. water. Down in the flats here Glen and Leslie [Page 3] and Willeie made a raft to go over the water with three planks. I got on to see if I could guide it but I was to [too?] heavy and sunk it down & the result was I fell in and had to wade out to the shore I had on my rubber boots and I got the water all inside of them. Fred, Cass, Belle and Miss Kennedy & I, all went to Essex last night to a Recital. They have got in a new Pipe Organ in the Methodist Church so that's what it was my! if you would hear that organ. You could hear it almost a mile away. I will send you the programme. I saw Jim up there last night. He has not come down here yet. [Page 4] I think he is afraid of Uncle making him help with the harvest and I suppose he would rather pay his board in Essex doing nothing than come down here and work. I have not heard yet whether I passed or not but I think I should soon hear now. I think if I pass I will go to High School for a while and then I think I will go to Business College. Jim thinks he will go to B.[Business?] College after a while. The weather here has been very wet for a while past but these last few days are very, very warm. The highest was 92 [degrees?] in the shade so that is 12 [degrees?] hotter than it was here last year. The sweat just runs of me. I am getting a linen dress [Page 5] made just now . I did not know what kind of dress to get at first So I was too warm and I thought I would get a cool one. It was 20 cts a yd. a yellow colour. Uncle started to cut his hay on Monday but it rained that night and so he stopped again. A good many people has [sic] lost there [their?] hay those who cut it before the rain has [sic] it destroyed its so black looking the hay spoils quicker here than home it is because of so much heat after the rain. Fred cut some Monday & put into the barn yesterday so thats the way they handle it here. By this time yous [you?] are preparing for the 12th. I [Page 6] suppose. I see they are not coming to the Plum [Plumbridge?] after all. I suppose they are just waiting to I go back. Well I’ve got no place to go this 12th. it will be no 12th. for me. I don’t think very much about it. I think if I was at home and no 12th. it would be worse for me. I want to hear all about it. I suppose there will be a good band this year as well as last. I see by Liza’s letter that the women and the men don't agree very well there. I think it must be a disease among them. I hope Bella don't get it. Say,I have got the “hives” and they allmost [almost?] set me crazy and I dont know what to do for them they raise in big red lumps about the size of a penny and they are so itchy, that I scratch them to I leave them bleeding – Good Bye for this time M. [Mary?] Smyth. Say, I would like a few shillings now in the holidays Jim will be getting none now. So I would want a few starting to school again. |
