| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1881 |
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| ID | 4197 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/10 |
| Year | 1881 |
| 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 | 421 |
| Genre | correspondence, family |
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| Transcript | 281 Regent Rd Apr 4th 1881 Dear Laurence & Mary Ann, We recived Mary Anns Letter and we ware very glad to Hear that you ware all well. We would have answered it Sooner but I was very ill myselfe. Mary Ann has been very ill for 3 weeks with a bad cold. I had rhumatic in my back. I could not goe out for 6 weeks until yesterday. I went to mass. The weather was very severe this winter. A great many people died and the weather keeps very cold yet. William and Patrick keeps well. William got a Letter from Lizzie O'Toole the week we got Mary Anns letter and when he read it he was so disgusted with it he would not answer it. She never excused her selle for not answering it or mintioined the pre sant he sent hir until the end of the Letter and made nothing of it. The Letter William sent he sent it from all the love of his heart and he expected a kind Letter comming so fare. Mary Ann answered it for him and the[y] will open ther eys when the[y] get it. I wood like to send you a copy of it but she is not so well and it would take her to[o] long to write it. I think the[y] dont correspond much with any one for the letters the[y] sent we have to pay for nearly all of them. Lizzie said in hir Letter that she sent a large box of things to you for your cristmas dinner and you said you never got them. We did not like the style she termed it. Let us know in your next Letter all about it. We dont expect to heare any more from them except thru you and I think they are not worth hearing from. When you found them out first nothing pleased me so much. I thought John would write often to me but he has not sent a Letter this 3 years. William is sending a cross & a meddle of the Knock apration and you will see it by looking thrugh the little glass in the cross, and he is sending a card of his van and horse and driver to see what you think about it. I have nothing mor to say at presant. John and wife is well and doing well. Williams work is geting a Little busyer. Write soon. No more at presant but remans your afectionate mother sister & brothers |
