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Title: [Bell?] [?], Napa City to "Dear Sister, Mother and Bros."
ID3200
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileWeir, Isabella/6
Year1895
SenderWeir, Isabella (Bell)
Sender Genderfemale
Sender Occupationasylum attendant
Sender ReligionEpiscopalian
OriginNapa, California, USA
DestinationIreland
RecipientWeir, Annie
Recipient Genderfemale
Relationshipsisters
SourceCopyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 0SA.
ArchiveUlster American Folk Park.
Doc. No.9905046
Date17/02/1895
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogDocument added by LT, 12:05:99.
Word Count501
Genre
Note
TranscriptNapa City

Feb 17th 1895

Dear Sister Mother and Bros.

I scarcely know what to write
as I must have a letter from you
in San Francisco But have
Been up in Napa a little over
3 Months So I Begin to get
anxious to hear from you and to
know in particular how poor
Jane is and how Mother gets
along it is over 3 Months
Since I Buried my Husband
yet it Seems like a year the
next week after I wrote to you
I left San Francisco and got a place
in the Country where I worked
for 2 Months this winter has
Been terrible rainy But I think
I feel just as well as when I
wrote to you last - I am in [Hopes?]
This Summer with a change of
Climate out of the City cold
winds may help me if not I
have thought very seriously
of going home you must know
that above all things I dont
want to be destitute in a Strange
Land nor do I like the idea of
going home a pauper and invalid
and still a Sea voyage might
Cure me again But I will wait
for this Summer And see
how I shall feel how is your
Baby and how are you feeling. How
is your Husband I must tell
you I had an offer of marriage
from a very nice earnest young
Scotchman he wanted my Company
for one year that is [----?]
we should thoroughly know each other
he belonged to the Presbyterian Church
But in my present condition
I firmly refused him I stayed
one week with Mr and Mrs Gladden
their baby is now 7 Months old
But it is very troublesome though
it is as large as a Baby of a year
old She is just as she used to
Be But Mr Gladden is very nice
The [they?] live near the Asylum he
[drives?] there and gets 50.00D [Dollars?]
per month I wish I knew how you all were
especially our dear Sister when
I am Busy at work I have no
time to think But now I am
off for a few days So take the
opportunity to write to you I may
go to the city next month and there
I shall get your letter when I
Change again I will let you know
I like the climate here it is warmer
and still not too much So it is very
lonely without my Husband But
it is no more than I have expected
for 2 years after my Husband['s] death
I wrote to Willie But got my letter
returned after some six weeks
So I think he may have gone to
Australia now Annie I need not
tell you to [Ans?] Soon as you Can
for I know you will I must tell you
Miss Armstrong is married she worked
for quite a while at Napa Asylum
Hoping earnestly this will you (sic)
all comfortable as I wish is the
prayer of Bell