| Title: | Sam [?], [Drumhory?], to "Dear Sister Eliza"? |
|---|---|
| ID | 2369 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Sam/42 |
| Year | 1911 |
| Sender | Sam |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | visiting Ireland |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Drumhory, Co. Donegal, Ireland |
| Destination | Massachusetts, USA |
| Recipient | Eliza |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
| Source | Donated by Gayle White, RR~10, Peterborough, Ont., KGJ 6Y2, Canada |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 1200313 |
| Date | 11/6/1911 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 19:12:00. |
| Word Count | 348 |
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| Transcript | [Letter cover] Joseph ---acy [Darcy?] 443 Millbury st [Worcester?] Mass U.S.A. Monday night I arrived in Belfast going to Liverpool tomorrow. [page 0ne] Drumhory June 11 1911 Dear sister Eliza – Well I was down to Donegal Fair, and you would have laughed if you had saw the Irish mugs, uncle Jas [James?] Montgomery old home I was out yesterday & saw his sister Mrs [Wray?] her son is just married to a Miss White a cousin of Jessie Harrons, she visited there four years ago, Uncles other sister is a Mrs Graham she is 85 an old woman every person [tells?] me around here that Grandmother was the cleanest woman around here. I wandered around the old place & was thinking all the time that oh if mother only could come out what she could tell me about all the places, [the?] old school is there no person in it, Jack McKees old home is vacant. I was out to the field where Grandmother used to sit & I picked these shamrocks and they were showing me the maple tree that she planted. I am sitting in the room writing to you where Grandmother was born - I was in bathing last night where mother sailed away from and if the waters could only speak. I met a Mrs Edward Harron here & she says she was 7 years old when mother left she was in the house the day they left. I have tramped & walked & lay around all these corners, where I was told that my mother was, that I know it pretty well. The Rev Fenwicks House still stands is owned by a man from London a beautiful spot near sea. The Kincaids are all old, between 60 & 70 I should think, no stores in this part all fire places and so untidy. Johns friends are too far away and I am leaving for Belfast & London to morrow. I will also send you a rose from Grandmothers rose bush. I am sitting in the room where she was born the Kincaids live here, they are all dead but she from here Margret died in Scotland, she has a son married well no more now love to all from Sam |
