| Title: | Emma McClintock, U.S.A., to "Dear Bertie". |
|---|---|
| ID | 3766 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | mcclintock, emma/8 |
| Year | 1934 |
| Sender | McClintock, Emma |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | upper middle-class socialite |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Huntington, West Virginia, USA |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | Bertie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | distant relatives |
| Source | D/3561/A/5/3: Deposited by Dr. E.R. Green |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9806323 |
| Date | 15/4/1934 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:06:98. |
| Word Count | 925 |
| Genre | |
| Note | (Parents were Charles McClintock and Adeline Richey; lived in the Charles Ritter household with his wife Mabel) Source: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~cabell/genealogy/d160.html |
| Transcript | Ritter Place, Huntington, W. Va [West Virginia?] April 15/34. Dear Bertie, I have just been going over your letters. The first I read was concerning the heart trouble of your eldest sister and the paralysis of the husband. Then the one about the death of both. Since these letters were so far apart, I did not realize conditions until I read the letters together tonight. You certainly had a load to bear and I wish to express my sorrow. I just hope you will soon be able to have a rest. Summer is coming with all its gorgeous setting after a very bad cold winter. Our temperature was around zero and 10ø above for a long time. We have had snow for the past two months. A short ago we had ten days of hot weather from 80 to 88. Cold again. But today calmy. A grand Easter. Janquils are about over. Forsythia nearly gone. Magnolias, hyacinths (jasmine), japonica, and lilacs in bloom. One of your letters stated that in case you found the fortune you would visit us. Get busy, quick. Mabel had a wonderful cruise to Iceland, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, and France last summer. I think this summer she will take a house at Atlantic City again so the grand-children can be on the beach. We have had a terrible tragedy since the new year came - Mr. Ritter had put the youngest , but largest unsophisticated son on a 300 A. [acre?] farm up on the Ohio R . He did not attend to it at all, so he moved him to the city. They did not have their draperies up yet when his little wife wanted to have a party. After they had gone, a neighbor [neighbour ?] heard a crackling and discovered the living room afire. The fumes were so deadly that Mary, her sister and the ten months old baby were suffocated without knowing anything about it. Don had gone up town with a boy friend to get a sandwich (as usual) and was not at home. We had brought Don Jr. here so I could take him to Sunday S. [school?] So these two were saved. The three were laid away nicely and the flowers gorgeous. Both Dons live here now. Mr. Ritter had just gone to Tuseon for his sinus trouble. His eldest son and his wife are there for her sinus trouble. This is Donnies birthday and they are getting him a pony. I have not been teaching for two years. I am glad to be out of the profession. Salaries are very low and I get a pension. My stocks have paid nicely. So I am quite content. I began painting last summer, but have not done anything this winter as my time has been given to Donnie. He attended kindergarten all year in the morning. He has always lived here. Then I put him to bed and cared for him until nearly dinner time. We have a fine colored [coloured ?] nurse now which relieves us very much but either Mabel or I have to remain at home when the other goes. We have had some cousins from Pittsburg, a gentleman from Bluefield, two ladies from Indianapolis (one that was on the cruise with Mabel) and a table of bridge in the last ten days. A friend from Santa Fe came suddenly just before that and spent a week. We are expecting our niece from Washington, D.C. soon to stay for a while. She is an ananemic [anemic?] since graduating in pipe organ at the conservatory in Boston and Mabel thinks our country quiet, fresh air, and sunshine, with some diversion will strengthen her. She must have liver and spinach too. I went to a bridge party lately which was given for a benefit for a church school, and four of us are going to the school Tuesday to a luncheon. Friday night I attended one for the Episcopal church but I was one of twenty-four guests. Rhonda Neal plays with three of us once a week. She is quite well. She stayed with me one night two weeks ago while Mabel and the Dons were in Lexington, Ry. with a friend that came from Santa Fe. I am still writing to people concerning my ancestry. I found the name Tennant in an Ad recently and wrote to her. She sent me a clipping from a W. Va [West Virginia?] newspaper which gave an account of a reunion of the family at which 8000 descendants attended. I never hear the name and it was a big surprise to know that one end of this little state could have so many in one big family. Now I am about to write to Glasgow. A Scotch family here were reared in the midst of Tennants, I found out last night. These W.Va [West Virginia?] people came in 1760. The eldest brother did not come. He was Lord Tennant. But who my grandmother's father was I have not been able to find out. They settled in the New England states. I want to go back to the winter temperature. My cousins said their daughter who lives in Maine wrote that their temperature was 50ø below zero for weeks and sometimes 100ø below. In New Hampshire it was 45ø below for three weeks and about that in New York. Wm [William?] Ritter and his wife were in Florida most of March so they escaped the worst. I await the photo and letter. Regards to Robt [Robert?] from whom I hope to hear soon. Aff. [Affectionately?], Emma McClintock. Word count: 925 |
