| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1883 |
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| ID | 4206 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/19 |
| Year | 1883 |
| 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 | 395 |
| Genre | family, friends, crops, trade |
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| Transcript | [December 1883?] [letter torn across the top] Dear Laurence & Mary Ann, I Recived your Kind Letter and we ware very glad to Heare that you war all well as we are all well at presant, thank Be to God for all his Blessings to us. You will think me very unkind for not writing to you Before this But we ware very Busy. William was opening an other new Shop neare the queens park about 5 miles from where we Live and all their time was Spent going the ire and Back. It is a very nice Shop and we [one line torn off] We had a letter from Lizze OToole the Same time I got youres and we had no time to answer it yet But I will send hir one now. She said in her letter that James [the word 'Willie' is crossed out] was up and he was a fine Smart Boy of his age. She did not call mm William. She called him James and we ware wondering whou it was. If you did not till us in your Letter about Willie going up we woul[d] not Know who it was. William was Disapointed. he thought his name was William. [one line torn off] I am afraid the harvest will Be Lost in England & Ireland agane this yeare. The rain is Something Dreadful and thunder Storms. We had a great thunder Storm in Manchester and loss of Life. Two shops ware Blooen Down. All over England their was great Damage done. A pilgrimage left Manchester yester Day for Ireland county Mayo to Our Lady of Knock. It was a grand site to see them, about 600. Some wair lame, some Blind. I hope they will come back [two lines torn off] Dear [torn] Losses in our Busness. We lost 4 horses in about two years. William got a new van. It is the nicest van in manchester. He gave 40 pond for it. Our Busness is profitable with all the losses, Sow we must not complain. I have nothing More to Say this time. In your next Letter send all particulars about unkil John and Let us Know has he many people working for him. I think he is not in a very large way. Now more at present But Remains your afectionate Mother Brother & Sister until Death |
