| Title: | Reynolds, William to Reynolds, Laurence, 1890 |
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| ID | 4214 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/27 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | Reynolds, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | linen trader |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Recipient | Reynolds, Laurence |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 881 |
| Genre | business, family, politics |
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| Transcript | 295 Stretford Road Manchester Dec 8th 1890 Dear Brother, I would have written you a Letter before but I have had so mutch to attend to I have not been able. I hope you and Maryann and all the family are injoying good health. I hope your Sons are getting good health and doing well at thair business. Chicago is a fine City. We are all getting pretty good health at present. My mother is getting as good health as can be expected. John & Bridget are quite well and doing well in thair Business. I think the Exhibition at Chicago will be a great Success. Chicago seems to be a city advancing Vary rapidily. You Should Commence Something on your acount now. It would be better than working for an imployer. I am getting on vary well. I have plenty of work & very little play but Still I am my own master. I have about 30 persons imployed. In fact the Business is getting as mutch as Maryann & I can manage. But when people are making a little money it is some incouragement. I received a Letter from Cousin Lizzie last June but I am Sorry I have not been able to Send an answer yet. She Sent Marthas phopto [sic]. She is a Hansome Girl. If She came to Stay with you kind ley remember all to har. & Should you write to uncle John Say All in Manchester beg to be remembered to all the family. We are having a vary exciting time at present through the dredfull Mess Mr Parnall has got into. Everything was in favour of Ireland till the O'Shea divorce case came on and the Irish people ware vary united and preparing for a General Election but now a great deal of the preparation seems to be cast to the winds and it will take a long time to get tham So united again. Parnall is to be blamed for all. If he had been upright and having a proper Love for Ireland he would have retired at once. If only for a time till the devorse case was forgotten. But now I am Sorry to Say all is over with Parnall. He will never be Leader of the Irish people again. He was getting credit for what other men ware doing. John Dillon & William O'Brine doing all thay possiable could for the poor tennants in Ireland, Keeping tham united and fighting the exterminating Landlords. You will See allmost as Soon as we over here how he has divided the Irish members into two Camps & I suppose the Irish people the Same. Old Gladstone has been the hope of the Irish people in these Countrys. He has worked hard for Ireland to get the English people to consent to Home Rule. It is vary hard to get anything of[f] the English. Of course Old Billey in one Sence had no right to interfere in Sending his Letter. But the Liberals having worked So hard and the Irish people having worked So hard, Thare was every prospect of Home Rule from the Liberals when thay got into power. I hope all will turn out for the best Thare is one thing Sertain that Parnall was not fit to be the Leader of the Irish people after the devorse case. I have Seen by the papers you have had great meetings in Chicago & die dalagates got a grand reception. Irish people in America have Liberty. That is more than we can Say in this Country. I must Conclude this Letter. Write Soon and Send all perticulars of how you Maryann and all the family are. All goin in wishing you a happy Crissmas and a prosperous New Year. I remain your Effectionate Brother William P.S. I send you a copy of our Mothers Pedigree. The History of the Clan OToole has been writteen by the Rev P L OToole, O.C.C. of Dublin. I am one of the Subscribers & my name is printed in the first addition [edition]. I was Speaking to him in Dublin during the Summer when over. I have got my addition. It is a splendid Book. I know you will be plescd with the copy of [it]. [In an agitated draft of this letter to his brother, William wrote the following passages in the section about Parnell, which he subsequently deleted.] See now he has divided the Irish Members and people in Ireland and all over. If he had retired at once the Irish members would not have attacked [?J him very mutch and they would still have the sympathy of the world. The Bishops have given thare dissicion & deserved all. I dont See he can do anything now. He has not been looking after anything for Ireland, the Pariimantary business, for Some years. When the whole thing should have been fought to the vary end … The irish people every ware are upset. Some are for Parnell & Some are for Dillon & Obrine. The Bishops in Ireland have condemed him. He has sartenely been a Vary devour Leader, one of the Greatest Leaders ever Ireland had, but for some years he has not assisted his own party as well as he Should have done. |
