| Title: | James Collins, Peterborough to Elizabeth, Ireland. |
|---|---|
| ID | 676 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Collins, James/23 |
| Year | 1864 |
| Sender | Collins, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | Elizabeth |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings? |
| Source | T 2487/1/54: Copied by Permission of E. H. McIlwaine Esq., Farnham Road, Bangor, Co Down. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007039 |
| Date | 01/08/1864 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 07:02:1994 |
| Word Count | 467 |
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| Transcript | Peterboro [Peterborough?] Canada West Augst 1st 1864 My Dear Elizabeth I have just received yours, and am glad you are getting on so well with the farming; but you appear to be rather late in cutting your turf; I always commenced with mine about the first of May. You were wrong in telling Harvey to send me £10 which sum would not take me to the sea; let alone taking me to Ireland. It is a thousand miles from this to the sea and more too. I hope Harvey wont mind what you told him, I wrote to him some time ago and hope he will follow the directions given him then. I am glad Mama is at last arrived and living in Belfast. The weather here has been very hot and sultry till [until?] last night when we had a thunderstorm and a great deal of rain every thing [everything?] was parched up and burned; the leaves on the trees are actually dried up and withered. I was up the lakes and caught some fish, the woods were on fire in a good many places, it is actually frightful to see how the [they?] blaze. It is grand to see the fire at night the red glare on the sky and the shadow of the burning woods reflected on the lake I am sorry the seed I sent Agnes was distroyed [destroyed?] by the rabbits as the fruit of them would have been splendid I will try and bring some more with me. I suppose I wont know Falmore when I return Logan hasnt made much improvement. It was a good thing about Jimmy Doherty and Carney sitting up all night and serve him right to [too?] for letting him in there, when I forbid him "knowing the sort of him," as Mary Burns says. Dick is a terrible fellow to bring his sisters before a Court for #PAGE 2 a trifling sum and exposing his own character into the bargain he must be a fool for himself. What are the girls doing now, I suppose Agnes has the flower garden in great style I hear some of them were in Belfast with my mother for a while. How is Isabel and Sabina getting on with their lessons in the Greek ancients Lycurgus & Pisistratus and all those old fellows. I had a letter from my mother and answered it. I must hurry for the post as I have to go to town with this. I am going up the Lakes again as the flies are nearly all gone now therefore it will be very pleasant. I have engaged to meet a party at Stony Lake so I will be away for a fortnight I would like to leave this in august so as to avoid the Equinoxial [Equinoctial?] Gales. Adieu And love to all James |
