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Title: "M.M." [Matty McTier?] [Belfast?] to "Will" [Drennan?]
ID1757
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileMcTier, Matty/64
Year1777
SenderMcTier, Matty?
Sender Genderunknown
Sender Occupationunknown
Sender Religionunknown
OriginIreland
DestinationUSA
RecipientWilliam
Recipient Gendermale
Relationshipunknown
SourceT 765/1/4: Obtained From Mrs. Duffin, Summerhill, Mount Pleasant, Belfast #TYPE LET The Drennan Letters, 1776 - 1819: Extract of Letter From "M.M." to "Will" [Mrs Matty McTier, Belfast, To William Drennan?], 22 November, 1777.
ArchivePublic Record Office Northern Ireland.
Doc. No.9002029
Date22/11/1777
Partial Date
Doc. TypeLET
Log22:02:1990 JM created 06:08:1991 SQ input 07:08:19
Word Count138
Genre
Note
TranscriptDr [Dear?] Will [William?]
You seem to have enter'd [entered?] upon the Winters business
with spirit which I hope nothing material will damp. I know no person
that wou'd [would?] agree worse with an idle Life than you your health
wd. [would?] be lost by it your Genius wou'd [would?] dwindle into a
little poet-taster and when the American War ended you wou'd
[would?] almost cease to think - from such evils may activety [activity?]
of mind and body defend you...
The triumph of the few & fears of many begin to decline in
regard to the victory's in America - from Dublin we hear that there is
little credit given to the various accounts of Washingtons defeat -
but I have no pleasure in writting [writing?] you suppositions of what will
be certainty before this reaches you ...