| Title: | Stewart, Frances to Wilson, Mary, 1849 |
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| ID | 4750 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/32 |
| Year | 1849 |
| Sender | Stewart, Frances |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Douro Township, Newcsatle District, Upper Canada |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | Wilson, Mary |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 319 |
| Genre | correspondence |
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| Transcript | 1849: November 2 To Mary [Wilson], Ireland Auburn 2d Nov'r 1849 My beloved Mary I have been for some weeks past thinking of you almost constantly & longing to know something of you & still intending to write to you but waiting from week to week, still hoping to hear from some person who could give me any satisfactory account of you but I have waited to no purpose. So I will write, but what can I say? How can I express to you what I feel, how deeply I feel for your loss, for I fear the report is but too true… I am more anxious than I can tell you to have every particular & circumstance connected with the whole of your blessed Mothers illness & departure & your own mind & your plans & prospects… I am vexed that my sister has never written to me to tell me of you for she knows how closely attached we have been since I have been acquainted with you, my own darling friend & cousin. I am sure Eliza Frood will write to you. She has been waiting for me to write some time. Dear Eliza, she is a fine & valuable girl & I love her more & more every day & am most thankful that I have them with me. They are pleasant in the house as companions for my young people & are exceedingly useful too & most anxious & ready to do anything for me & very kind & thoughtful. The only thing that I regret is that they don't seem yet to feel the Spirituality of Religion in their hearts but I think the great change in their habits & ways of living has unsettled their minds.... Now my dearest Cousin, Adieu. May every Spiritual & temporal Blessing & Comfort be yours, in & through Christ our Lord Your affect' cousin F. Stewart... |
