| Title: | Rev E T O'Neill, San Francisco to Sarah A McNeice, Ireland. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2008 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | O'Neill, Rev. E.T/23 |
| Year | |
| Sender | Rev. E.T. O'Neill |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | clergyman |
| Sender Religion | Catholic |
| Origin | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | McNeese/McNeice, Sarah Ann |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins (not acquainted) |
| Source | D 2093/4/1: Presented by Seamus Coyne, Moy, Co. Tyrone. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9102053 |
| Date | 14/08/1896 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 16:11:1993. |
| Word Count | 192 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | St. Dominic's Monastery Bush & Steiner Streets San Francisco, Cal [California?] Aug 14th, 1896 My Dear Cousin Sarah A [Ann?] McNeice Your Kind favor of July 16 is at hand and the Contents noted with great pleasure and delight. I inclose [enclose?] a Newspaper Clipping to Explain the Address on my letter to you Mr McCreeley was all Correct but I had doubts and used both - I notice, by reading the lines of your letter, that my unguarded expressions in my introduction to you, were not in keeping with good taste and this troubles me now more than words can Express And feel that I was guilty of a gross mistake - But you will, I hope, Consider that my remark, about Moy and the People thereof were but the reflecting the view of my Boyhood Days, when, at the age of 12 or 13 years, I had not the faculty for much Discrimination and that I have, in my old age, stumbled into the past to speak of things now, as I then beheld them, you can put that down as the Babbling of an old man, who has given a Clear proof by this, that time is Claiming him for its Child again. |
