| Title: | Incomplete: [Isabella Moore?] San Francisco, to "Dear Sister" |
|---|---|
| ID | 1862 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Moore, Isabella/69 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Moore, Isabella |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co Fermanagh, BT93 0SA |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9906156 |
| Date | 25/05/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 30:06:99. |
| Word Count | 207 |
| Genre | |
| Note | (n. Weir) |
| Transcript | San Francisco, May 25, 1892 Dear Sister I write once [to?] Bid you a fond adieu with good Speed on your journey wishing you a fair weather voyage [I?] [am?] [really?] truly Glad you are going But ten weeks does not Seem long Now Anna when at home or on your voyage or otherwise please so not let thoughts of me for one moment mar your happiness as My boy now able to work for me once More through the Merciful Blessing of providence I fear no want & Besides my Brotherinlaw which is only a young man has promised to help him until he is quite well I know my Husband asked him as he said he did much more than that for them when he was in the East he has two sisters in Illinois one of them I never heard from But the other is Seemingly a very nice Girl and Sent me some very nice letters now Anna you ought not to have sent me Stamps as My Means are quite sufficient to keep up my small Correspondence if I told you what my trouble had Been I did not mean you to suppose I was in destitute Circumstances now [past?] thank God I am far from sick.... |
