| Title: | Mary Brigg, Royal Oak, To "Dear Friend Annie". |
|---|---|
| ID | 297 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Brigg, Mary/91 |
| Year | 1891 |
| Sender | Brigg, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Royal Oak, California?, USA |
| Destination | prob. Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 0SA. |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9905104 |
| Date | 30/11/1891 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:05:99. |
| Word Count | 354 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Royal Oak No 30 1891 Dear friend Annie, I will now try to write you a few lines in ancer [answer?] to your kind and wellcome [welcome?] letter that i received so long ago and allso [also?] to thank you for mother she got her coat all write [alright?] and fits her she thinks that it is good to ware [wear?] around the yard and care in [carrying?] wood so she is going to keep it to go out with I wish that you had sent the outher [other?] one that you spoke about that is if [be it?] is no use to you but if you come down to see mother you mite [might?] bring it along as i could make use of it Mother will be glad to see you any time that you can come she is not fealing [feeling?] well now but she has four men to cook for and it keeps her [busy?] all the time thay [they?] exspicket [expected?] to stay heare [here?] all winter if nothing hapens [happens?] wee [we?] are all well so far excpet [except?] for colds diptheare [diptheria?] has been bad around heare [here?] sum [some?] has [have?] died Wille [Willie?] Ellwoods little girl has daid [died?] and May and the baby has [have?] been very sick with it but are getting beather [better?] i am glad to hare [hear?] that Bella is happy i wish that i could say that i was O Annie you have no trouble now to compare with the tryils [trials?] of a marrad [married?] life men all make such fine promess [promise?] before thay [they?] are marred [married?] but after they get a wife she may carey [carry?] her one [own?] lode [load?] well Annie i think that i will have to close as i dont know of any thing more to write to night so will say goodby [goodbye?] with love to you from all write soon and come when you can [stained] and see your old friends and make up your mind to be an old mad [maid?] bether [better?] than a [soring?] wife [avi e?] from your friend Mary Briggs |
