| Title: | Richard Rothwell, Ouebec, Canada, to Rosa Rothwell, Co.Antrim |
|---|---|
| ID | 2350 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Rothwell, Richard Jr/26 |
| Year | 1864 |
| Sender | Rothwell, Richard Jr |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Rothwell, Rosa |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | T2621/3/5: Presented by D.B. Rothwell Esq., Yorkshire, England |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9501327 |
| Date | 07/09/1864 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 25:01:1995. |
| Word Count | 581 |
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| Transcript | Port St Charles July 7th 1864 Dear Mother The mail due last week did not arrive in Quebec until Sunday The consequences was that I did not get your letter until Monday sow [so?] the Tuesday I got this weeks so I got all the news at once, I have only got three of the papers that you sent me but I must not grumble as that is pretty good considering. The First question to be answered is no letters for three weeks some of them must have gone astray, but we must hope that that will befall no more of them. I am glad to hear that Miss [Tuailes?] got my letter. How is Dick employed? that would be a hard question to answer I am afraid latteilly [lately?] I have been reading the life of Watts also the [enginen?] that is a paper that is published in our [g?] land and that we get in the library once a week for which I pay the sum of 8 1/2 cents a week and do not get it until it has lain [lay?] in the room for a week. But it is a good paper and worth the price sometimes I read the papers and at other times I am writing to you and last Sunday I wrote a letter to Mr John Bagley. which I have not done for four or five months i will send them my papers for I am sure that it will be very acceptable them. It will be a bad job for the poorer classes in England the dry weather that they have had. I intend to make some enquiries about the Machanics [Mechanics?] Institute and attend the classes there both for drawing the authentic and [euclid?]. Are you not glad to have me out of the road now so that you time is not taken up tto [too?] mus [much?] as you are with William What business have you laid but fro [for?] him I myself can not for one moment pretend to say whatwould suit him best but I am sure that it is in good keeping. I am sorry that Frank had the measles but I suppose that it is just as well to have it soon as late, Then as he was before. I am sure that it it [sic] must have pulled him down considerably. While I am writing Miss Warren is pealing [peeling?] peaches to preserve and I am sure that if you had a few of them they would do you good, On Saturday night I went to town to get some paper and bought some peaches that has given me the Canadien [Canadian?] Cholera to such an extent that it has pulled me down four pounds since I ate them, which delaes [delays?] me from the pleasure of eating any more, Yesterday we goth [got?] a quarter day to see the Guards embark for England and on Saturday we lost a half day for a Regatta at [Lachiene?] but I did not go but had a good afternoon's cricketing which I am sure I enjoyed better than if I had gone to the Regatta. Last Sunday it rained all day so that I had to spend the day in the house except to goto church and having been made treasurer of the Cricket Club I balanced the books which I got from the last treasurer in a horrid mess. hoping that this letter will find Frank quite well and yourself and all I remain your attached Son R Rothwell |
