| Title: | Anne Jackson, Southfield, to "My dear Annie" |
|---|---|
| ID | 1533 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Jackson, Anne/38 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | Jackson, Anne |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Presbyterian Or Baptist |
| Origin | Southfield, Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Anne |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 0SA |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9905074 |
| Date | 22/07/1890 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 18:05:99. |
| Word Count | 667 |
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| Transcript | Southfield July 22 90 My dear Annie It is not the first time I have tried to answer your welcome letter but you know it has been canning time and we have three hired men this Summer so that we have been a little busier than usual I hope you will have heard from your Sister by this time and also a most favourable account of your Mothers health in regard to your sister I had no idea she was leaving but merely going Home for a month or two she seems a little strange but I have no doubt but she understands what she is doing any way and is as she hopes acting for the best - in regard to Mrs Edgar I am very sorry for her but that wont help her difficulty at all but Annie she proffessed [professed?] herself a Christian did she marry a christian man if we would follow Christ we must bear the crop we must deny ourselves and he must be first in our affections I hope Ada has not been acting toward her Husband as she did by Mrs Day and try to make him jealous in anyway she will find it hard to be cast adrift with young baby it brings very forcibly to my mind a text of scripture which runs thus who that they had hearkened to my commandments than should their peace have been as a river and their righteousness as the waves of the sea it would save us all from a thousand snares to mind religion young. you dear Annie I know are apt to worry about little things but cast all your care upon him who careth for you only trust him and do as he would have you do and all will be right in the end Mrs Albert Nixon was buried last Sabbath after suffering terribly for several years Mrs Furman has two cancers comming [coming?] Emily Heth is fast wasting away and Mrs Phillips has been very low but is now a little better I should like to know how you came to be bit (sic) you must have been in rather a dangerous position I thought of you previous to the fourth and knew you had a hard time coming but we often suffer more by the contemplation of some coming event than we do by its actual occurence [occurrence?] I was in the Garden gathering fruit one day and Miss Taylor came along and wanted to know why your Sister did not call on her before she went home she said she supposed she stayed with us two weeks I dont know who could have told her that she seemed very angry about something but I had to leave her talking for I did not want to hear what she had to say - but Annie I want you to write me a long letter and tell me if you have seen poor Ada I do feel very sorry for her Ralph Bingham is going to be at Birmingham on the first of August did you see and hear him when he was in [forAene?] I suppose he is a wonderful geneious [genius?] I should like to hear him how about your cousin does he live at the same place yet and does he say any thing about going home soon but he will very likely mak [make?] his home in this country the men here cut down the last hay yesterday and to day they are reaping barley next it will be oats wheat we dont have any so you see every day brings harvest nearer to a close and Annie I must close this not forgeting to pray for you that your strength may be equal to your day from a sincere friend Anne Jackson the Mrs Young I spoke of is Mrs Young of Birmingham her Sisters are very wealthy she told me that they clothed her too and you know she always dresses very nice |
