| Title: | Jane White, Goderich to Eleanor McIlwrath, Newtownards. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3301 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | White, Jane/15 |
| Year | 1865 |
| Sender | White, Jane |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Presbyterian?) |
| Origin | Goderich, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Newtownards, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | McIlwrath (n. Wallace), Eleanor |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D 1195/3/24: Presented by J. W. Russell & Co., Solicitors, 4 High Street, Newtownards, Co. Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9112103 |
| Date | 08/06/1865 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 29:11:1993 |
| Word Count | 424 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Eleanor [McIlwrath?] [nee Wallace?] [Newtownards?] [County Down?] [Ireland?] From: Jane White Goderich [Ontario?] [Canada?] June 8 1865 Goderich June 8th 1865 My dear Eleanor I have been long in answering your kind letter, it was not want of thought I assure you, I am daily thinking of you, and anxious to know of your welfare, I kept putting off in a procrastinating manner, nor has there been wanting a certain share of wordly [worldly?] trouble to damp the mind to a certain carelessness, but of that you do not have a share I am happy to know, this War on the other side has affected this side too very much, but it is over now, so I suppose we may look for good prospects now, Goderich was so much deserted, there was no letting property for anything like value, this town was troubled greatly the shipping interest is so knocked up, but still the town will recover, in the midst of difficulties we do not owe one penny, so that is fortunate. I suppose you are surprised at the Assassination of President Lincoln, the news arrived here next day, he should not have entered a theatre on the night of Good Friday, but he was a person greatly respected and regretted, Booth was surely a very outlandish brutal character. We had a steady cold winter, but not such cold as the winter before, the weather is warm and pleasant now the Queen's Birthday was rather #PAGE 2 a failure, it rained from about 11 o'clock in the forenoon until the evening, it cleared up then, and the people came driving in from the country and making a stir, some fireworks were let off, the -allithumpians [Callithumpians?] enlivened the scene in the forenoon before the rain came. There was a great panic here about Christmas last the time the raiders came across, it was supposed all or nearly all the able-bodied men would be marched off to the frontier to meet the American invasion, this would not have suited their wives and families, but none were taken from this town for that purpose, the Volunteers are still drilling yet, I never care for looking at them, as I do not understand military movements, but my father knows every movement. This is still a Southern place, there was no public sympathy for the assassination of the President, but a number of other towns sympathised greatly, the new President seems to be harder, stiffer character not so aimiable [amiable?] as Lincoln, but a firm, honest man, I am afraid they will hang Jeff Davis. the Fenians are making a fuss now-a-days, the Canadians are afraid of them last winter I, [Remainder of letter is missing] |
