| Title: | Candee (n. O'Brien), Maria Wright to O'Brien, William, 1842 |
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| ID | 6133 |
| Collection | The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson] |
| File | quaker/141(2) |
| Year | 1842 |
| Sender | Candee (n. O'Brien), Maria Wright |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Quaker |
| Origin | Buffalo, NY, USA |
| Destination | Collins, Lake Erie, NY, USA |
| Recipient | O'Brien, William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | daughter-father |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 434 |
| Genre | mail receipt, material for hats, local economy |
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| Transcript | My Dear Father I send this letter from Joseph as there is some news from Ireland in it that I think will be interesting to you all. Joseph sent this and a receipt for that box inclosed in a Frank, so that it cost no postage. The receipt Cortes will keep: in it are a few words saying that it will be here in 8 or 10 days after it was forwarded, which was the 31st of last month, so it will be here some time this week, I suppose, and Cones will take care of it. We are very well except that Cortes has had the tooth ache pretty bad for these two nights past: I am going to fix some of Mother's cure for him tonight. He does not have it at all In the daytime. Our things came safely and not rubbed with the carriage as much as I thought they I expected them to be. I asked Cortes the price of that Plush of which they make the caps and he says that if you want some caps for the little boys it will be better to buy them ready made. I think from what he said that he would like to get what butter we would want toward them, and if you had anything else to spare that we would want, it would save him paying money for it, though I did not say very much about it to him. We have not got to housekeeping and I think it likely we will not this week, as Aunt Susan owes Cortes about $ 16 and he says that she has no other way of paying him but in board; and thinks I had better get my sewing and such work done while I have nothing to hinder, and then when we go to housekeeping I will not be hurried. Tell Margaretta that I cannot tell her anything about coming out here as I have not made any inquiries and do not know how it will be. Business is still very dull - Butter 10 cents per pound. I have not got many of my things yet and thought I would not till some of you come out. I hope Mother will, though it is not likely that we will be housekeeping by that time, but most certainly come here and stay. The going is not so bad as when Cortes and I came out to Collins. With love to all, in which Cortes joins, and a kiss for Willy and Ann. I remain thy afft. daughter Maria W. C. |
