| Title: | Edward Stanley, Touchwood Hills, Canada, to "My Dear Joshua" |
|---|---|
| ID | 3029 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Stanley, Edward/37 |
| Year | 1896 |
| Sender | Stanley, Edward |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | land supervisor? |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Touchwood Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Destination | Armagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Peel, Joshua |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D 889/7/1: Deposited by Messrs Joshua Peel & Son, Solicitors, Armagh |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9909035 |
| Date | 04/12/1896 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:08:99. |
| Word Count | 325 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Kutaura Touchwood Hills N.W.T [North West Territories?] 4th Dec /96 [1896?] My dear Joshua Your note with enclosed Bank bill, reached me, which is very acceptable, I return your signed receipt, and at the same time thanking you for the favor at the same time hoping that you are quite well. I was very glad indeed to get a line from you, knowing you so well in our early days now we are parted, [lestely?] for life on this wide domain, but I trust our old friendships has not been forgotten. I never hear of you, and how you have hit the world off, but I should think you have long since made your mark, and are doing a good business in Armagh. I suppose you have a wife and bairns long [ere?] [this?]. I only took to myself a better half! five years ago and am now blessed with three, one boy and two girls, not bad Eh!! Well no one knows but those who have experienced life as those wilds, how we pull through first experience, excitement carries one along bright & happy, but years of the life of the Nor. [North?] West makes man strong. Mrs. S. [Stanley?] is Irish too, she was a Miss Dunlop from Co. Antrim and she makes life a pleasure together with our little ones. I am living amongst real indians and our house in the centre of reservation, far distant from White folks. I have charge of two lands, numbering in all about 200. They still use the war paint and [denuded?] with a blanket thrown loosely round. I dare say many of the old ways of Armagh are non est [existent?]. I often think I would not care to return, as I might feel the gloom of many missing faces. Now hoping you & yours are well, and if you feel like it drop me a line, as I will be pleased to hear from you any time. yours very truly Edward Stanley Pardon hasty scrawl. |
