| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1879 |
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| ID | 4193 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/6 |
| Year | 1879 |
| 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 | 375 |
| Genre | weather, family, crops, decease |
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| Transcript | 281 Regent Rd Salford Manchester August 25th 79 Dear Laurence & Mary Ann, We Recived your Kind Letter on the 15th and we ware very Happy to Hear that you ware all well as we are all well at presant, thanks Be to God for all his Blessings to us. Dear Laurence, We ware very glad to Heare that trad was Better in America & previson chaper [provision cheaper]. Mary Ann and Myselfe was in Ireland for about 10 Days. The weather was very wet. We Had a Shocking Sommer this yeare. We had not One week of Drie weather all this Somer. The crops are all Damaged, the hay was all lost. Brother Williams crop was very good. If He got 3 weeks good weather bee wood Be at no loss, his land is so rockey and Drie. He is very comfertable. He has 3 Sons & 2 Dauters. One Son is in a grocers Shop in Mohill. His oldest Son is a very nice young man and the oldest Daughter went out to America 4 years agoe to her unkles her mothers brother to Kintuckey. The[y] are very well of[f] and she Sent a lot of money Home. Their name is Shannon. Sister Sicily is Doing very well. She Sent 5 of her children to America. 2 Sons ar maried there. She Lost a very fine young man 21 years old and about 14 stone. Said he was onley Sick a Short time about 12 months agoe. We Had no Letter from Brother John Since January 25. I Do not Know what is the Mater with him. He said he wood Send his Likeness in Spring. When you goe to see him Bring all particulars. Have a good Look around and See what sort of a place he has. Dear Mary Ann, I was very glad to He are from you and that your baby was so good and your Health was Better. I hope God will leav him to you & I was very Much Pleased how William is getting on and how He helped you. I hope God will Bless him & Make him a good man and all the children. I will conclude By send[ing] our love to yo all. |
