| Title: | Alexander Robb, Canada to his sister, [Dundonald?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 2301 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Robb, Alexander/24 |
| Year | 1870 |
| Sender | Robb, Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Nicola Lake, British Columbia, Canada |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | T 1454/6/5: Copied by Permission of Dr. J. C. Robb Esq., MBE, MD, MCH, Cambourne Park, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9006024 |
| Date | 17/09/1870 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 25:10:1993. |
| Word Count | 905 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Sister [Robb?], [Ireland?] From: Sandy [Alexander Robb?], Nicola Lake [British Columbia?] [Canada?] September 17th 1870 My dear Sister I received your letter with the likenesses you sent out by Alex McWha about four weeks ago and it has taken me all the time since then to make myself sure that you have not been imposing some one's else [someone else's?] likeness on me for yours and Sam's. Mary's I would have known very well. What a stupid I have been to be always calling you my little Sister and my little pet. Why you are a woman now and although my reason told me long ago that you must be one Still I had to see your likeness to convince me fully that you were anything else than the little girl I remember so well And I do not think it will make you too vain my darling (you see I cannot avoid pet- names when I think of you) when I say that I think that you are a very nice little girl too, and so thinks every one [everyone?] to whom I have shown your likenesses but that is not many for it is not every one [everyone?] in this country I would show my sisters likeness to I can assure you than [that?] I am not a little proud of my sisters. I like Sam's likeness too, he has got a fine open honest look about him I do not think that such a face could belong to a person who would be guilty of a mean action. Many thanks my dear Sister for the socks you so thoughtfully sent me They will be a comfort to my soul or soles this winter. Socks are a thing it is very difficult to get good in this country. I pay from three to four shillings per pair for them and the average length of time they last is from two to three days without holes Tell Sam I am much obliged to him for the knife he sent it is almost a chest of tools in itself. Your last letter I received two or three days ago contained Aunt Ellen's likeness but #PAGE 2 I suppose you concluded not to send Franks until next time. Be sure and do not forget and if you have got a spare one of Andrew's send it also I want to have the whole family. I need scarcely say how much I have been grieved and dissapointed [disappointed?] that neither you nor Father could see the prosperity of sending out some young lady for a wife for your hopeful brother. Surely among so many female friends as you have got you might find one who for your sake if not for mine would be willing to travel eight or ten thousand miles to find a husband in the person of your brother. As I told you before I am not particular to a shade one way or another so I think that the young lady you mention under the head [heading?] of No [Number?] 3 would suit me to a nicety. My partner got back from Canada in the beginning of Summer and brought a wife with him. She appears to be quite a nice woman and I have been more comfortable since she came here than I have been before for a long time We all live together for the present and most probably will do so all Winter and I can assure you that it quite [?] to me to get rid of cooking and washing Mostly on account of my partner being so long in getting back from Canada but partly from other reasons, I could not get to Cariboo [Caribou?] this Summer in time to represent my claim on account of the severity of the winter all claims are laid over from the first of November until the 1st of May. Of course as I was not there at the latter time the ground was open for any one [anyone?]. Well according to my usual luck my claim (that is the one I had last fall) has turned out to be one of the most likely ones for a big thing that has been in the Cariboo [Caribou?] Country for years. And although not one dollar has yet come out of it nor will likely for months yet four thousand dollars has been offered and refused for a half interest in it. Mr Clapperton that I wrote to you about has returned to this country. He had not time to go North as he intended to do. I do not think that you would have thought him quite so nice as you did Jim Allen but I am sure you #PAGE 3 would have liked him very much. I liked Jim better than any stranger I have ever met I think that he is not only nice, but good If any of you are writing to him give him my best respect I am very glad to hear that Frank has got such a good situation It is much better than emigration and if he only tries hard to do his duty and studies his business thoroughly he will not only come to like it but his employers will like him. Give my best love to father and all the rest and believe me dearest sister Your Sandy Robb P.S. Whoever directs my letters in future will please not put Esq to my name it appears to be so very ridiculous Sandy |
