| Title: | Elizabeth Foster, Quebec, to Catherine Brown, Navan, Ireland. |
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| ID | 1092 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Foster, Elizabeth/62 |
| Year | 1816 |
| Sender | Foster (n. Kirkpatrick), Elizabeth |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | upper middle-class housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Navan , Co. Meath, Ireland |
| Recipient | Brown (later Kirkpatrick), Catherine |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends (later sisters in law) |
| Source | D1424/11A/1: Purchased From Mr. John A. Gamble, 44 Taunton Ave., Belfast 15. #TYPE EMG Letter From Elizabeth Foster at Quebec, Canada, 10th May 1816, to Her Niece, Miss Catherine Brown, Clongill Rectory, Navan, Ireland. |
| Archive | Public Record Office N.Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9003050 |
| Date | 10/05/1816 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 28:03:1990 GMC created 25:09:1990 CD input 27:09:1 |
| Word Count | 726 |
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| Transcript | Miss Brown - Clongill Rectory Navan Quebec May 10th 1816 My dearest Catharine When I look at the date of your last letter of Octr [October?] 24th (which however I did not receive until the 24th of Febry [February?]) I almost fear you will think me both unkind & lazy for not having thanked you for it before now. However I shall not spend your time & [Mission?] in hacknied [hackneyed?] excuses & promises of better behaviour in future. - - I have been this week past over head & ears in the pleasant occupation of packing, preparatory to our removal from hence to Montreal, which we expect to take place some day next week; as our worthy friend Sir Gordon Drummond proposes embarking about that time for England. We shall feel quite deserted when our friends leave us, but it is so much to our advantage to to remain in this country a short time longer, that however ardently we wish to pay a visit to poor little Erin we must at present deny ourselves that happiness. I dare say you will have heard before you receive this, that your cousin Colley has been appointed by Sir Gordon Drummond to a staff situation in Montreal (that of Assistant (Assistant Genl [General?]) where we hope to be soon comfortably settled. Take notice you are not to assign to the word settled the same meaning you do at home, & suppose that we intend to take up our quarters for good, on this side the Atlantic! No such thing I assure you - We look forward with rapture to the time (which I trust is not far distant) when it shall please God to allow us to embrace once more, all our beloved friends at home & I hope I need not tell you that the dear inmates of Clongill Rectory hold a distinguished place in the catalogue. I am most anxious my dear friend to introduce to your acquaintance my young Canadian he[?], but as I cannot do so at present in person, I will by letter I must not say too much in his praise, lest you should impute it merely to a mother's partiality I think you would like & love him very much, both for his mamma's sake & his [own?] I assure you he resembles you in many respects being uncommonly good tempered, lively & fat - He has large dancing, dark blue eyes, which sometimes, when he is in high glee, look very roguish. In fact he is Thank God everything we can wish & has not had a days illness since his birth. Winter seems unwilling to take his final departure as yet. Last week we had some beauteous weather which however soon turned to rain & storms. There is snow still to be seen in the country.- We had not yet heard of any ships coming up the river, although we have had stormy easterly winds. - - I hope dear Kate you do not forget the many happy days we have spent together in our youth at poor dear Lyncombe & the academy - Pray do you remember two little Miss Robinson's who used to attend Miss Le Mercier's? Well! I have recognized them here, in the persons of Mr Robinson the Commissary Genls [Generals?] daughters, the eldest of whom (the one I particularly recollect) is married to Col [Colonel?] [Smith?] of the 103d Regt [Regiment?] - Mrs Robinson (who looks almost as young as her daughter's) & I had a long conversation the other night about old academy times, she says she hears poor Miss Le Mercier is since dead & that Miss Louisa was in very bad health. How goes on your miniature painting? I heard some time ago that you were making rapid improvements in that delightful art. Give my love to my darling Bessy & tell her I hope to write to her when we get settled in our house at Montreal - Remember me also most affectionately to Aunt Susan & Fanny. Colley desires me to give his love to his cousin Kate with whom he hopes one day or other to be very great. If you are at Clongil say every thing kind for us to our dear Uncle & Aunt Sutton. Adieu my sweet friend, & be assured you are as ever most sincerely loved by your affectionate Elizth [Elizabeth?] Foster |
