| Title: | Stewart, Frances to Atwood, Annie, 1869 |
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| ID | 4787 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/69 |
| Year | 1869 |
| Sender | Stewart, Frances |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Douro Township, Newcsatle District, Upper Canada |
| Destination | Gore's Landing, Ontario, Canada |
| Recipient | Atwood, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 414 |
| Genre | news, family |
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| Transcript | 1869: February 10 To Annie Atwood, Gore's Landing, Ontario Wednesday 10th Feb'y 1869 My dearest Annie I wish we were nearer each other but there is no use in wishing for what cannot be. But it can be & may be perhaps probable that you will come to visit your northern Mammas this winter. So I often look out when bells are heard & I say perhaps they are the Atwoods bells. Every year we seem to have less intercourse with our friends. It seems as if people were afraid of us! so few ever come to see us now. Do you know your dear Mamma has been here only once & that for less than one hour since this time two years [ago] when she spent a few days here soon after we were settled in this house! & I don't think you have been here at all. Your last visit was when we were staying at Robert Browns. So my dear just think upon this & a£t upon it too. I hope you & Mr. A. & your little ones are well & have not had any of the dangerous illnesses now so prevalent. Scarlet fever has taken off several children in Peterboro but happily none of my Grandchildren. Influenza has also been travelling into every family & in some cases very dangerous, often ending in Typhoid fever. Quinsy & Bronchitis too have been very severe. The season has been too mild & damp to be healthy. I have not heard from dear Mrs. Traill for some weeks. She is troubled very much with rheumatism & also has a great deal of care on her in [diverse] ways. I met Mary one day at Annas & I have been looking out for a visit from Katie who was staying at George Stewarts in town last week & I heard was coming to spend some time here. But yesterday I heard she had returned home which is a great disappointment to me but I hope she will make it up to us soon. We have been so plagued about horses that Bessie don't ask your dear Mother to come. There is so much difficulty of getting out, as you may suppose when Bessie is going today on a load of hay part of the way to town, as she means [to] walk when she is near the town & return with Robert when he is coming back.... Ever your own old Mamma Stewart |
