| Title: | Reynolds, Mary Ann to Reynolds, Laurence, 1886 |
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| ID | 4208 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/21 |
| Year | 1886 |
| Sender | Reynolds, Mary Ann |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | linen worker |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Recipient | Reynolds, Laurence |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | siblings |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 656 |
| Genre | correspondence, illness, family, weather |
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| Transcript | 295 Stretford Road Manchester Sept 8/86 Dear Brother & Sister and children, We Received youre Letter Last week and it gave us very great pleashure to hear you ware all well and doing So well. We Received all the Letters you Sent and papers. You had great meetings in chicago. I hope the[y] will do Som good for poor Old Ireland for it is in a very poor State at pre sant, never was much worse. Dear Brother, You ware Surprised that we did not answer your Letters. We thought it better not. The other last letters gave Mary Ann So Much trouble. The[y] ware all wrote at Mothers dictation and the[y] ware not Sent to cause any trouble. Mother thought She was giving a good advice. We always have taken her advice and we hav not gon very rong. Dear brother, I will tell you about Mother. She has been very ill for the Last 16 monthes. She has not beent to Mass onley about 3 times. Severel times we thought She would die, She was so bad. She keeps very poorley yet. She will never get strong again. I think the doctor Says it is the weasting of her Sistom [wasting of her system]. William & Patrick ar going on very well. William is Enlarging his buisness very Much. He has taken a lot of ground that goins his works and Let it into it, So it is the Largest about Manchester. He Spent a lot of Money to fit it up. Trade has been very Slack hear for a very long time. Manchester was near ley all to let or to be Sold, trade was so bad, thousants out of employment. We could not complane, we Kept prety busy all along. John is doing very well. I think I told you he bought a little property. He was very looky [lucky]. He had all his houses taken but he is thinking to sell his buisness in about an other 12 monthes and the[y] will have a rest for a while. He may go to Ireland, Somplace neare the Sayside. I was in Ireland for my holidays about a month agoe. I went to the Same place, bray, but John went to corrick. You will be Surprised when I tell you of unkle Williams death Last Spring. He was no time Sick. The winter was so Severe he god cold and could not get over it. He had a grand funeral. John stoped for about 10 days with them. The[y] ar very lonley. All the old stock is dieing out. When you write to unkle John tell him about unkles death. Dear Brother, When you send the next Letter tell us about unkle and his family or has John got married. We like to know how the[y] all are. We have dreadful newse from America about the earthquake in Charless town. It was awful to read it. It is much safer to be living in England. We have a lot of rain in this country. We had not S weeks of hot weather this sason, all rain and cold. We thought their would be no harvest but we had about 10 hot days and it was very not while it lasted. We thought we wair going to have the American weather. We wair nearley rested but it did not last long. It is much colder now. Dear Brother, I think I have nothing more to tell you. Wishing you and Mary Ann every prosperity in your new shop. And I am shure I have no need to speak about James William. He is very enterprising for his age. He will say their is nothing like a little bit of buisness after all. I hope Mary Ann will not forget Mother in he[r] prayrs. We all Send our love to you Mary Ann and the children. Youre affectionate Sister Mary Ann and Mother and Brothers |
