| Title: | Incomplete: [?] Ardvarney, to "My Dear Sister" |
|---|---|
| ID | 4014 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1891-1900/8 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | unidentified member of the Weir family |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ardvarney, Co. Leitrim, Ireland |
| Destination | USA? |
| Recipient | Nancy |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co.Fermanagh, BT93 OSA. |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9906095 |
| Date | 08/03/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 18:06:99. |
| Word Count | 693 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Ardvarney March 8th. 92 My Dear Sister I was much pleased to receive the welcome news your letter brought me of your well-being thanks to a merciful providence this leaves me in at present and hoping it will find you enjoying the same blessing the weather is very cold at present weve [we have?] had hard frost, while there is snow falling to day Mother and all at home are quite well I saw Jane and Johnny on Sunday Morning going to Sabbath School I suppose you would hardly recgnise Johnny now he nearly (sic) as tall as Jane and equally stout in proportion, now Nancy you needent [need not?] think me very uneasy to go to America for if I could live comfortably in Ireland I would never once think of leaving the place of my birth, I dont mean to live without working (for we may talk as we please about living at ease but There is no Real life without some sort of strife) so dont [worry?] yourself about me lest [missing] should cause any one pain. I wrote to Bella as yet have received no answer I only hope I have not offended her, I need not think it very strange for she did not usually answer them very hurriedly I like a long letter Nancy but those last two I got from you I had to pay 5d on one and Miss Emily 4d on the other She was very much pleased with your letter and so were they all I did not see it as yet but she told me she would show it me well I did not finish This last night so I thought I would finish it to night, It has been snowing heavily to day it is also freezing very hard to-night theres [there is?] not many of the [Knoxs?] of Shanmullagh there now Thomas went out to America and is married there Robert still lives at home and Joe and Lizzie Mary Jane is Married also. Miss Emily was talking of Maggie Graham getting married to Johnnie Weir and she said she thought she was really the making of the [best wife?] [incomplete letter] the youngest of which was only four days old I heard Beck Clements was dangerously ill with inflammation on the lungs but I think She is recovering I wish you would send me Bella's address I want to write to her for I think Mother never wrote to her since her marriage which I think was not quite right of her I would like to hear from her and if you are writing to her before me as likely you will send her my Best Love and wishes for a happy married life old Mr and Mrs [Atthill?] is very well at present (but I think Mr Atthill aint a very (sic) father but of course its not for me to judge Miss Emma was asking for you and for Bella I couldnt tell her much about Bella for I hadent [had not?] heard from her I am just hurrying for it is nearly dark and I want to have it for the post this evening I want you to send me your likeness when you write again I would have sent you mine before this had I had an opportunity but there is no Photographer nearer than Enniskillen so I couldnt get away there Good bye for the Prest [present?] and God be with you till we meet again well I had thought last nights closing with what I had written but I think I must write another piece though I havent got much news to send you must excuse my poor scribbling for my hands are very cold mother received your letter all right on Tuesday last Grandma is sick now I havent [have not?] heard from her this week I dont know whether she is better or not there is a great deal of sickness and [death?] going now though thank God we all have escaped it there was a man buried the day after xmas [Christmas?] who was called to leave his wife and seven or 8 .... |
