| Title: | Isabel, Punjib, India, to Aunt Isabella, |
|---|---|
| ID | 3521 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | isabella/48 |
| Year | 1860 |
| Sender | Isabel |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Punjib, India |
| Destination | prob. Belfast, N. Ireland |
| Recipient | Isabella |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | niece-aunt |
| Source | D 1558/1/1/255: The Papers of William John Campbell Allen; Deposited by the Late F. D. Campbell Allen Esq., 15 London Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9907090 |
| Date | 30/08/1860 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 19:07:99. |
| Word Count | 724 |
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| Transcript | [Shikh?] [Budieu?] August 30th address on receipt of this 1st Sikh Infantry Edwardesahad Punjib India My dear Aunt Isabella, I have not heard from anyone at Greenisland for months, not since we came up here on the 1st of May, but I hope you are all well. I am so glad to hear the good news about Aunt Eliza, she will be so much happier now she can hear, it is a dreadful thing being deaf. I hope dear Aunt you yourself have been well & strong during the summer Arthur & I are much better since the weather became colder, but we still hope to leave India on two years leave in March if all is well as I told you in my last letter we go first to Australia to see Arthur's Brother & sister & then come round the world & Sans [San?] Francisco & New York, it will be a very pleasant trip & will do us both good I am sure. I have sold my Piano on our leaving this, & shall be very sad at parting with it Arthur has just been reading over Ma's two volumed novel which she has just finished called "Her married life in India" & thinks it will be a success some parts are beautifully written, it is in 2 parts, [Daley?] has written out more than half, & he hopes to send it home to Mr McHenry in October I do hope it will be taken, & that she will get paid for it, I think it is the best she has written, the scene is laid on the frontier, & is about the Principal Frontier Force, she has been told by several people to write a story of Indian life as it would take better. We have had a very quiet season so far, only one Ball, & three moonlight Pic-nics [picnics?], but we are rather enjoying the quiet after the gay season we had last year. Arthur has applied for Cashmere for next Summer, & I hope he will get it, the doctor who is up there this year likes the appointment very much, he belongs to the Force so we know him & his wife very well. I mean to keep a diary when we are there, & also in our trip round the world, as it may be interesting, I don't think many ladies have seen it as yet, although gentlemen tell me I shall have every comfort, & in America they have the best of everything, splendid steamers & sleeping cars on the railway, the trip from Sans [San?] Francisco to New York will take us a week, but we shall not go straight through we want to see the Salt Lake City & the yosemety [Yosemite?] valley which is the most beautiful scenery in America, when we get to New York we want to go up the Hudson to Newport & see the white & green mountains which is one of the American pleasure trips & well worth seeing, we shall get home about October after we leave India, & shall by this get two winters, one in Australia & one at home. I dont know what we shall do with Arthur's niece Emmie Strong, I dont think there is much chance of her getting married, she has an invitation to stay with her Aunt in Australia, but she does not much like the idea of the life out there after so many years in India, Arthur's Brother has a large vineyard in Australia about 70 miles from Sydney he is getting on very well, he has eight children most of them grown up & two of them married, then he has a widowed sister who married Dr Cusack of Dublin, & she has seven children, so there is quite a party of them & they are all strangers, none but Mrs Cusack, I met in her in Dublin, Dr Cusack had to go out on account of his health & died there of decline, so she has stayed there ever since & lives close to her Brother, his place is called "The Wilderness" it will be very nice seeing them all this is quite a family account letter, so I will now close I have been writing for two hours & am rather tired, With love to you all in which Arthur joins & hoping soon to hear from you Believe me My dear Aunt Isabella your affectionate niece Isabel [Whires?] |
