| Title: | Jane White, Goderich to Eleanor Wallace, Newtownards. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3306 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | White, Jane/25 |
| Year | 1857 |
| Sender | White, Jane |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Presbyterian?) |
| Origin | Goderich, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Newtownards, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Wallace, Eleanor |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D 1195/3/14: Presented by J. W. Russell & Co., Solicitors, 4 High Street, Newtownards, Co. Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9112086 |
| Date | 01/08/1857 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 29:11:1993 |
| Word Count | 604 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Eleanor Wallace [Newtownards?] [County Down?] [Ireland?] From: Jane White Goderich [Ontario?] [Canada?] August 1 1857 Goderich August 1st 1857 My dear Eleanor Accept my dear thanks for your kind letter, the letters I receive from Ireland seem to come from some land of dreams, it is so long since I left. The winter was very tedious in going way this time, it broke first of all in February, this did not answer very well, because after open weather for three or four weeks about that time of year, the winter sets in bitterly afterwards, May was a cold, snowy month this time, and June was cold, such a rainy season as it has been, I suppose one great Comet was the cause, I do not hear anything about it now, it was supposed it did strike about the 13th of June, there was so much loss of life in different places in the States, Canada has been visited by sad calamities in the Railway accident at Hamilton in March last, and the burning of the steamboat "Montreal" off Cape Rouge somewhere between Quebec & Montreal, you will see the particulars in a Signal I sent you, the sufferers were mostly Dutch emigrants just come out from Glasgow, I believe when the steamboat reached Montreal they were all taken under the protection of the St Andrews' Society, the Captain and others of the "Montreal" have been tried and found guilty of manslaughter, they surely deserve it for not paying proper attention. I have been very sickly all spring and summer, I got a cold in my head, it has brought on rheumatism, it makes me feel dull and uncomfortable, sometimes I say to my mother, now if I could get rid of this, there is nothing in the world to make me unhappy, she laughs at me, and tells me I'll always have trouble while I live in this world, she is no doubt right, in our position here, I take fits of deafness sometimes but still I fancy, I am recovering, my mother throws cold water over my head at night before going to bed, I feel great benefit from it, I thought at first of blistering my neck but I changed my mind, the pain puts such a flush in my face sometimes, any one would think me the picture of health, but I #PAGE 2 must not be complaining, it is not fair to send dull news so far, I have not much news, I think I mentioned a Miss Caldwell in my last letter, she went to Philadelphia a little after I wrote, she is expected back, she is a very nice girl, she has a sister married to a Baptist clergyman over there, there was another sister stopping with her brother in law [brother-in-law?] and sister she was killed accidentally last winter by her sleeve catching on the trigger of a loaded gun on the mantle piece [mantelpiece?], this Miss Caldwell went over to comfort her sister for her loss I think, I met Mrs [Butler?] [this part of the letter is missing] notion, if not I will hope to hear from you, with very best wishes to you and your father in which my father and mother join me, I remain your sincere friend Jane N.B. Please to remember us to Mr & Mrs Waugh & Mrs Hill and all enquiring friends I would take it as a very great favour if when you are out for a walk you would pick me three or four haw [hawthornes?] you could send them in a paper, I dont see any of the same kind of blossoms here, I just want to see if I can get them to grow, I'll put them down just when I get them. |
