| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1882 |
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| ID | 4203 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/16 |
| Year | 1882 |
| Sender | Reynolds, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | head of household |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Salford, 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 | 406 |
| Genre | family, trade, politics |
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| Transcript | 281 Regent Rd Salford March 29th - 82 Dear Laurence & Mary Ann, We take the opportunity of writing to you Hoping to find you and the family in good Health as the Departure of this Leaves us all in good Health, thank god for all his Blessings to us. I cannot complane of My health. It is prety good considering My age. The winter was very Mild until a week agoe and it got very cold and Stormie and wet. William is going on very well in his Buisness. He got more new mashinary He got a new Engine. He will Be able to Do More wourke with Less Laber. It was very hard on Patrick to Do Some of the worke. It will be Much Easier now. The trade in England is on the whole very Slack. Things arc going on the Same in Ireland. Old Buck shot is putting them in as fast as Ever. It all Depends on the people to keep to the no Rent Manifesto until the[y] Let all the Suspects out of prisen. We would Send you Som of the Manchester papers but the[y] are all Lies. You would be Disgusted with them running Ireland down. William Said he was glad to See that you had Such a good paper as the Citizen in chicagoe. It is a fine paper and has all the Irish newse in it. We get the Irish papers Every week and we Know how things are going on there. The Irish people heare that dose not get the papers from home, the[y] know nothing about Irelan[d] as neare as it is to England because the English papers canot be trusted. Mary Ann Send Many thanks to Willie for his nice card and She Said that he is getting on well with his writing. John and his wife is very well and Doing Well. When you write Let us Know when you heard from unkle John or his family or if you got a box of things at cristmas. We would Like to Know how the[y] are going on supposin we do not write to them. Still we would Like to Know how they are going on. Let me know how Little Mary is going on and all the Children. Write Soone and Send us all particulars. We all joyne in Sending our Love to you all. Youre Afectionate Mother Sister and Brothers until Death |
