| Title: | Mrs J Jennings, [?], to Mr Hugh Jennings, [?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 1549 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Jennings, Jeanie/26 |
| Year | 1876 |
| Sender | Jennings, Jeannie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ireland |
| Destination | Canada? |
| Recipient | Jennings, Hugh |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | wife-husband |
| Source | D1930/1: Jennings Family Papers, Rosnowlagh, Co.Donegal |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N.Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9601018 |
| Date | 23/08/1876 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:12:95. |
| Word Count | 600 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Clark August 23 1876 My Dear Hugh I am very happy this morning to have the privilege of answering your kind letter for which I have been anxiously waiting and I also feel grateful to God for his goodness to you across the mighty deep that he has heard [torn] answered prayer on your behalf. I hope his goodness to unworthy us will constrain us to love and serve him I am very happy to know that you found your dear Mother alive and that she recognised in you her Son and that you are enjoying your visit so much with your friends I hope that it will be a great benefit to your health I was very glad you were not sick on the voyage many times I was thinking of that when you were crossing Dear Hugh be grateful to God he is a friend that [______?] [____?] Hugh I must now say something about how we are getting along with the Harvest everything is going along splendid the boys are more anxious than when you were here they have all in the barn only the oats in the far place and they are wetting them now they are going to have everything right when you get home The fall was lonesome [______?] [____?] we are living in the hope that it will not be long to you are back again I trust that the God that rules the [____?] will bring you safe to your home dear Hugh I am wishing the days and hours to fly Swiftly by I need not tell you that I think the very long I feel lonesome you know all about that yourself I have been one evening with [M____?] Follis and one with sarah and that is all I have visited since you left I cant bear to leave the house Dear Hugh I often think if you were here now I could not consent to let you go but some times I think it would be wrong to prevent you from going to see your Mother no doubt you will feel very lonesome when leaving her again but it will not be very long till we shall all if faithfull meet where passing shall be no more I trust she has her peace made with God and that his presence will be with her over the Jordan and that She will meet with the loved ones gone before Dear Hugh we have been all well since left I hope we will be preserved from mischief or death till you return it has been a very warm harvest the people say the warmest that has been for a long time we never had a drop of rain from the night you went away till after you landed and only one however since that to the present Dear Hugh I would have written to you before this only John told me he had written I hope you got his letter I respect you will be about [____ing?] when you get this letter as it would be dangerous to [____?] the l[____?] [____?] in the Season I hope you will have a pleasant time in coming back as you had in crossing over we have had no letters from any of the friends [____?] you left I must bring my letter to close the friends are all well the boys join me in love to your mother Eliza and Robert and in par [______?] and the friends dear Hugh I remain as ever your affectionate Wife Jeannie Jennings unto death with kindest love to all Goodbye |
