| Title: | Lena [?], Michigan, to "Dear Annie" |
|---|---|
| ID | 3580 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | lina/19 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Lina |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | asylum attendant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs. Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 0SA |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9905114 |
| Date | 23/05/1893 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:05:99. |
| Word Count | 698 |
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| Transcript | Pontiac May 23 / 93 Dear Annie I will try now to answer your letter received a short time ago. I was very glad to hear from you again, for I had given up all hopes of it. The last letter I sent I forgot and only put a 2 ct [cent?] stamp on so I did not have any idea it had reached you, and I did not know but you were some where here in America. after that I did not write again. I am writing this on hall C. Miss Dodd is night - watch yet: The hall is quite comfortable There has been some changes in the hall, but some of your pals are here yet, such as Mrs Weiss Mrs [Root?]. Mrs Shelp, with her, [girls?] [fine?]. Will you, please kind lady. Mrs Woodruff. Mrs Heigg [Haig?] died in a convulsion when Dodd was on her vacation and Ray Goodall was in the work she was stiff and cold when she found her. Miss Griffth has charg [charge?] of the hall. [Tell?] Miss Harrison wanted me say that she was not married yet and was disapointed [disappointed?] to think you was not going to come back as she wanted you to stand up with her. No one but herself and her old man knows when that will be. We think every little while they will be married soon but still they hang off. You ask how we get along at the Refuge. It is fine and how often I have wished you were here now we do not have to go for a walk night after night to kill time. And I have thought how we could sit and sew and visit if you were here. I saw [Lena?] Burr about your money and gave him your address and he said he would attend to it. It will be some time he said before you would get it. I hope it will reach you safely. Now about your machine. I dont know what to do. no one seems to want it or at least to give much more than $10.00 for it and I know you paid a great deal more than that. So if you will write and set some price on it perhaps I may be able to sell it for you. Maybe I might sell it to the agent but I do not know as they would give much. I found your sissors [scissors?] and will send them when I send this letter. I must now take my lantern and make a trip around the house. The halls are all quiet most of the time I havent had to go for a cup of medicine in the night for two weeks, or more. Dr Taylor is away for his health and Dr Guillot is on the north wing and we like him very much. Dell Giddings was asking to night after you, and Flora Wells said to tell you you owed her a letter. She has charge of hall H. Well I think you must be a sight if you weigh 27 lbs more than you did here. I think there must be some great attraction there that is holding you some good Irish man has caught your heart: but what of the man in California Where is Belle now Annie and Charlie Britten have left Pontiac. I do not know where they will go. I think Annie is in Detroit just at present: McLuin told me the other day that Ida Damain was going to be married soon to a barber here in Pontiac. Now Annie I do hope that you will write again soon after you get this. Some of the girls inquire every little while if I have heard from Annie. Teddie Walter is married and lives in that little house down by the garden. Well I guess I will close. Thanks for flowers. How is your mothers health. I wish I could visit you on your native soil Ever your loving friend Lena If you dont come back Dr Taylor wont get his shamrock, or [Chancy?] Blain his blackthorn stick. all of which you promised faithfully to bring back. L. [Lena?] |
