| Title: | Anne Hincks, Montreal to Isabella Allen [__?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 1442 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Hincks, Anne/18 |
| Year | 1873 |
| Sender | Hincks, Anne |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | middle-class housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Allen, Isabella |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | D1558/1/2/241: Presented by F. D. Campbell Allen Esq, London Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9804174 |
| Date | 06/07/1873 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 08:04:98. |
| Word Count | 1283 |
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| Transcript | Montreal July 6th 1873 My very dear Isabella, I cannot tell you how glad I was to see your dear handwriting once more. I was longing to hear from you, and felt sure when you were able you would write. It is sad to think of the many changes which have taken place during the last year and here, I so often hear my dear brother remarking on the death of old friends in Canada. As we grow older this is always the case and I always feel a certain relief when I open my letters and find no bad news. I had as lately written to Bella, that I did not answer yours at once. I returned here last week after a very pleasant visit to my nephew & nieces. I was very fortunate in not having too warm weather in Boharret and I took a great many long & pleasant walks through the woods there nature is certainly very lovely wherever one goes there is always beauty to be seen, the luxuriance of the Fern is wonderful. I like them doubly because dear Hannah was so fond of them, William had been in Boharret and I saw the places loved, and the beauties he admired. I live much in the past, though I enjoy as I go along and I think little of the future feeling now that I can hardly look forward. I saw Andrew Rothwell today looking comfortably well. Rosa will have heard from him soon after you wrote, but Sir Francis went at once to the Gazette office as I feared he might be ill, or have gone off to some other place, I am glad to say that Sir F [Francis?] heard a very good account of him true from Mr Partrite who said he was doing very well, but that he would tell him his friends had been looking after him so Andrew told me today that Mr White had spoken to him, he said he was not aware he had been so long without writing having commenced a letter to his mother & laid it aside thinking she would have changed his home, however I think he will not leave her so long again without writing. 8th - I wrote so far on Sunday, because the morning was cool, and I am very glad to say, it has continued so, mornings & evenings; I do not like the extreme heat, I think it much worse to bear than the cold, but happily we have now again some cool days to make the heat bearable. Rain is wanted a good deal about the country, and a little would be pleasant in town too. I am glad that you had such a fine spring and I do hope you will have fine weather at Portrush. I am glad Eliza & Jane are so comfortably settled at Portstewart & I do hope Eliza will have strength for painting. Have you been doing anything lately at flowers? It will be a trouble having your house overhauled and painted, but a great comfort when done. My brothers house is now nearly finished & we are longing to get into it, but I fear it will be still a few weeks before we can move. It will be a much cooler house than this. The flies are most troublesome here there is no keeping them down without living in darkness and that some of us like. What a long time the Meeting house has taken to do. I thought it would have been ready this month. It is very sad that discussions have again risen in our body, we seem fated not to be long quiet in Belfast, and it must all be very trying and annoying to Mr Porter, and I am sure he and all his people will be thankful to get back to their own house. I am very glad that A [Andrew?] James is so much stronger and has grown so much; I always fancied he would take a spring some day. Mrs Bersford and I are obliged to addict ourselves a good deal to our sewing machines, as it is next to impossible to get any one to make for us and we cannot even get a woman into the house to home to work, we thought we had one but she changed constantly by the day, and wasted half her time besides not being a first rate hand. Lady Hincks & Mrs Beresford are greatly well at present but Mrs Frank is again laid up with a severe attack of rheumatism and will I fear have to go off to Shone Springs but is very sad for him than follow & for three and he is a most patient sufferer. Little Stewart is thriving a pace of a darling little fellow; Alice means to nurse him up if she can till August when the worst of the heat will be over and children here suffer so much when they are teething; she has made a most excellent nurse, but looks thin enough herself, they were to have gone for a visit to the Keadys today but have to give it up. It seems strange that Frank got through the winter so well and should be laid up in the warm weather. I had a few lines from Sarah Hincks last week, she is about to return to England expecting to be there on the 15th of this month, she has now quite made up her mind with her father's consent to go into one of the Hospitals in London for a year's training and then she will be fitted to take the situation of nurse on superintendant in some Hospital. This has long been her desire, and I only wish she had begun to it sooner on account of her age, but I fancy she will be found to know so much that she will hardly require a great training, she has heard once from Miss Nightingale who recommended her to go to one of the Hospitals in London rather than remain in Germany which she had had some idea of and I think she was very glad to find it was not necessary. I have not heard from the Richdern very lately, but I wrote to him just before I left Boharret. I fear Mr Hincks still suffers a good deal from his eyes and Sarah thought he might have wished her to go home on that account but he gave his consent at once to the other place. Sir Francis is now installed as President of the City Bank here, as my letters in future may be addressed in this case. I wonder whether Mr Allen will be likely to meet Mr Moat who has just gone home. I scarcely know him, but he called on Lady Hincks before leaving and I found out from his conversation that he knew the [-------?], and he is I think an Irishman. I must send as few lines to Isobel Jennings this week. I suppose they have moved now into the new house or are in the act. Miss Carpenter of Bristol has been paying a visit in this country; she was in Montreal last week and on Sunday last spoke in the evening in Dr Corofin's Church about the state of the prisons here, and urged upon the people to make a change, she sails from Boston the end of this month, and is now gone to Niagara. I must now close with very much love to you all, and hoping this will find you enjoying the [-----.?] Love to the sisters also. Ever your attached friend Anne Hincks. |
