| Title: | Mary Cumming, Petersburg, [Va?] to Rachael Craig, Lisburn. |
|---|---|
| ID | 775 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Cumming, Mary/8 |
| Year | 1812 |
| Sender | Cumming (n. Craig), Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | middle class housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Petersburg, Virginia, USA |
| Destination | Lisburn, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Craig, Rachel |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | T 1475/2 p.52: Copied by Permission of Miss A. McKisack, 9, Mount Pleasant, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9006089 |
| Date | 09/01/1812 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 01:09:1993. |
| Word Count | 196 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | My dear Rachel, By the time you receive this I suppose you will be at school in Belfast. I hope most sincerely you will like it. It gratifies me more than I can express to hear of your improvement in every respect since I left you. I am sure you will be everything my dear Margaret can wish. I expect you will be able to superintend the education of a little relative that I hope to take to you. Don't you remember the plans you and I used to have in case of such an event? You will be quite a woman when I see you again. I wish I was near you to assist in making your clothes, but I suppose you can sew very well now. I wish you would write a long letter to me, tell me how you like Belfast, and all the news you can think of. Will you learn to draw? If you do, I wish you would take a sketch of Strawberry Hill for me, I would like it more than I can tell you. Farewell! my beloved Rachel, I am sure you will be everything I could wish. [Postscript to Mary Cumming's letter to Margaret Craig, Lisburn dated 09:01:1812?] |
