| Title: | [Lord?] Caledon, Quebec, to the Countess Of Caledon, Littenhanger, England |
|---|---|
| ID | 3602 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | lord caledon/9 |
| Year | 1841 |
| Sender | Lord Caledon (James Du Pre Alexander) |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | politician |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Barnet, England |
| Recipient | Countess of Caledon |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D 2433/B/8/32: Deposited by the Trustees of the Caledon Estates |
| Archive | The Public Record Office,N.Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9512013 |
| Date | 23/04/1841 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 07:12:95. |
| Word Count | 466 |
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| Transcript | My Dear Mother I have just returned from the country in time to send you a letter by the English mail which goes out this morning to thank you for the trouble about the P Puragh[?]-I suppose by the time I hear from you again all will be settled.I intend to start very shortly that is in two or three days to La Chine but I think on the 1st of May we shall begin our voyage.I have not heard who are to come I believe there is to be a lady the wife of one of the Hudson Bay agents. Mr.Deane [?], Sir George myself and Lunderstand [?] an officer of the 71st I expect we shall reach Red River about the 5th June and about the middle of July I shall be homeward bound but if I amuse myself I shall not be very particular as to my return I will write if I have any opportunity which I hardly expect there will be.I am glad you took a share for me in the opera box and am sorry I cannot avail myself of it-I shall hope to be able to get myself leave this year and will take it last so as to carry me on till the next Spring so that I may be saved the horrid nuisance of crossing the ocean in those steamers.Our snow which was leaving us was [---?] last Sunday by about a foot & 1/2 of fresh snow so we are in a shocking mess here-Direct my letters to the Citadel Quebec they will be taken care of.I shall leave directions for the moussels[mussels?] to be sent to you they are preserved and a direction how they are to be cooked is to be sent with them.Grimiston is off again after more but the weather is breaking up I do not think he will be successful,he envies me but I am prepared to be much bored but the never ceasing paddling fpr so many hours a day.Should I get many letters from you before I start ( I have given directions for them to be forwarded) I shall answer them from La Chine after that I shall not have an opportunity of writing-However you may calculate on leaving about the beginning of September.I hope to be able to get a good many curiosities of one sort or another the only difficulty is the carriage of them-I am much afraid that I shall have to travell[travel?] to Montreal by land as the steamers have not yet begun to fly owing to the Lake [---?] I have nothing more to say but I shall most likely write from La Chine if I have time as I shall better know what places are after I have seen Simpson Every your affectionate Son Caledon Quebec April 23 1841. |
