| Title: | Eleanor Wallace, Newtownards to Adeline Clarke, Augusta. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3171 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wallace, Eleanor/51 |
| Year | 1853 |
| Sender | Wallace, Eleanor |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Newtownards, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| Recipient | Clarke, Adeline |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D 1195/3/8a: Presented by J. W. Russell & Co., Solicitors, 4 High Street, Newtownards, Co. Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9112092 |
| Date | 01/01/1853 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by JM 29:11:1993 |
| Word Count | 593 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Mrs [Adeline E?] Clarke [Augusta?] [Georgia?] [U.S.A.?] From: [Eleanor Wallace?] [Newtownards?] [County Down?] [Ireland?] circa 1853 My dear Mrs Clarke You will by this time think I have forgotten you but I assure you that [though occ---?] may [will?] between my friends are still remembered by me I recd [received?] your kind letter of [May 53?] by Mr & Mrs Bones it was posted in [Liverpool?] I would like much they had favoured us with a visit I [----sly ----?] Miss Longstreet and [-------?] was so [young?] during her [first?] visit to Ireland remember me affectionately to Miss Longstreet and tell her I [wish?] [--------?] is never been in our power to [renew?] [our acquaintance?] I Hope your health is better than when you last wrote I feel interested to here [hear?] all about our American friends I hope cousin [Fannies?] health is stronger she must have felt greatly the death of her Baby but it is a better [power?] had where the [treasure?] is there will the heart be also I suppose your two eldest sons are at business Robert your youngest son I suppose is by this time returned from Princeton College you will I am sure be glad to see him after such a long absence Mary and Eleanor will be quite companions for you not the others [----- -----?] It is pleasant for Aunt Moore all her family are all doing so well and so happy we never hear from any of them give my kindest regards to Mrs Walton and John [in?] which Mamma joins I spent a few weeks with our Dublin friends last summer during the exhibition I stopped with Mrs [--w?] our youngest cousin she has a fine little daughter Eliza lives with her the others are all married Mr & Mrs Bolton and their family consisting of two girls and a boy called James for Uncle have gone to America this is the third they have gone they are just lately arrived at Milwaukie [Milwaukee?] after a [pr-----?] journey they went by the steamer City of Philadelphia and were [wrecked?] on the banks of Newfoundland you have likely seen an account of it in the papers there was a young [minister the?] [Rev J. W.?] Hanson from near Colrane [Coleraine?] [Ireland?] to the charge of the [congregation?] of only a [----?] about two miles from [---- ----- ------?] connection yours Mamma says your mother had some brothers but #PAGE 2 from all we [can hear?] from our friends the [Torbitts?] we think he must be a son of theirs who used to [join?] I was at the ordination but have not met him yet he has a brother and a cousin in the Ministry of the general Assembly I forwarded an Illustrated London News to you a few weeks ago I then thought why should I not write I hear from cousin [Lily Eliza?] every week but hear how all our Dublin friends are getting on you will see from the papers the [--------?] was with Russia which is going on at present many of our soldiers are meeting with a sad death and many many famely's [families?] [----- -----?] in Britain are called upon to mourn the loss of sons large subscriptions are making for the widows and orphins [orphans?] and [--?] but what can recompence the loss how melancholy the thought that so many on both sides are so suddenly cut off war is a dreadful calamity and we must all wish that the time will soon come when the Nations will not [unleash?] war any more |
