| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1878 |
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| ID | 4189 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/2 |
| Year | 1878 |
| Sender | Reynolds, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | head of household |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Recipient | Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | mother-son |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 325 |
| Genre | trade, family, correspondence |
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| Transcript | Manchester Feb 18/78 Dear Laurence and Mary Ann, When we Recived you[r] Letter we ware glad to hear that you ware all well and in good health as this leaves us in at Pressant, Thanks be to god fo[r] all his blessings to yus [us]. We never neglected your Letter so Long befor. We ware Busey with the new place that William has taken, going Backwards and forwards. He did not understand it properley. When he had taken it he thought the gass and water wood do that was in it. But it wood not do. He had to get gass and water to his own cost. He got a Larg Boyler 14 hors power and he had to Builde a Chimney to the Building. The Chimney and Boyler Cost him about one hundre pounds and if he Could aford it wood take one hundre pound more to finish it. Besides what he gave for his mashenery. Things are very Dull at presant and if he will Be able to meat his Calls we will be Sadsfied. Dear Laurence, Trade is very Slack in England at presant on acount of the rumers of ware [war] and things are not Settled yet. Dear Laurence, I never got an answer to the Letter I sent to youkle [your uncle] John and that made yus [us] to neglect righting to you so long, waiting to get an acount from him. He Changed very much from the opinion I had of him. He is not lik me. I was Regoised [rejoiced] to heare from him and I thought I could corispond with him often and he was very well natured when he was at home. But he has changed very much. John and his wife is well and Doing well. Nomore at Presant from your Afectonate Mother Sister and Brother untill Death We send The Nation news pape[r]. All the news about the holy fathers Death is in it. |
