| Title: | [James?] Banks Reford, New Jersey to Aunt [Reford, Antrim?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 127 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Banks Reford, James/85 |
| Year | 1899 |
| Sender | Banks Reford, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | merchant |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA |
| Destination | Co. Antrim, N. Ireland |
| Recipient | Reford, Matilda |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | nephew-aunt |
| Source | T 3028/B/24: Permission to copy from W. Reford Esq., 81 Islandmagee Road, Whitehead, Co. Antrim. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9405005 |
| Date | 01/01/1899 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 27:04:1994. |
| Word Count | 253 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: His Aunt [Anne or Matilda Reford?], [Antrim?], [County Antrim?], [Ireland?] From: J. [James?] Banks Reford, [Bloomfield?], [New Jersey?], [U.S.A.?], [Circa 1899?] [fragment of a letter] which derives us the pleasure of visiting you - and the Green Isle. But my excuse. We have had terrible hot weather. In ten days the death in N. [New?] York from heat was about 1000, then it came off cold. And I found myself under the doctor's care from congestion of the liver. We have had a great deal of rain - several spells of extreme hot and then cold weather. It has been an unusual and changeable year. I see by the papers you have had an unusual amount of rain in Ireland this summer. I notice when you wrote you mentioned it. I have not heard from Belfast in a long - long time. We were glad to know you received the Birth day [Birthday?] card and was pleased with it. Josie got home from the west in June - he kept well while there, but did not gain strength. And the last hot spell broke him all up - so he is not at all well. When I last wrote you Eunice was not at all well. She is now much improved. We haven't got her picture yet, but will try and get one, she is a poor walker - and seldom gets away from the house. If she lived where you do she would get to Antrim about once a year - and never if she had to walk it. George is located in Chicago for good. He likes it, and is doing well, in the Insurance Brokerage |
