| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence, 1881 |
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| ID | 4200 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/13 |
| 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 |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | mother-son |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 448 |
| Genre | family, friends |
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| Transcript | 295 Stretford Road Manchester Sept 1881 Dear Lawrence, I received you[r] Letter and I was very glad to hear that you ware all well as we are all quite well at present. I would have answered your Letter Sooner but for been So Bussey. I was very glad to hear that 2 of your Sons went on a visit to uncle Johns. You Sent two of uncles Johns Letters and it is twenty years since I heard that he was getting on well and I dont Wonder at him been weld to do [being well-to-do] now I hope the children will come back in good Health and have Some very good presents beack with tham. When he sent a letter to use [us] I had 7d to pay for it. That was not mitch friendship for his Sister. You ware vaxed with use [us] when his daughter sent use [us] a Soucey [saucy] Letter. William was in Ireland three or four weeks ago [and] went [to his] uncles Williams. Thay ware all in good health and seem to be prospering and every thing seems to be getting on well with tham at present. I hope that John O Toole will be better to you than he was to his father as his Brother William said to my William that thare never was a more ungretefull Son crossed the water then he was to his father, as Willie Said that if his father had thrown the money in the deep he Shoud never have forgot him. Dear Laurence, you did not menction the kind of Business your Son was at. I hope he is not in a liquor Store as anything like that it might be the ruin of him. If you could make a good Tradesman of him he would be able to get his living warever he went to. James Curran Called to See us. He is back again from America. He has Star[te]d in the provission business in Chaple Street Ancoats and he is doing well. He told us that the most foolish even in America are Irishmen keeping Thare Sons to School till thay [are] nearley young men and than thay are fit for nothing but to be corner Boys. He told us this before you even menchoned anything of you[r] Son going to work, I dont expect that anything of that Sort will ever come of any of your familey. John is Doing well now. He has added another Shop to his business and now he has one of the best business in Manchester. No more at present from your effectionate mother All goin in Sending our Love to you maryann and the Children. |
