| Title: | J. Scott Picton, Canada to Anne Scott, Co. Londonderry |
|---|---|
| ID | 2410 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Scott, Olive/101 |
| Year | 1839 |
| Sender | Scott, Olive |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Ballybrittas, Co. Laois, Ireland |
| Destination | Derry, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Scott, Anne |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | aunt-niece? |
| Source | T2609/11: Copied by Permission of Mrs J.F. Hodges, Glenravel House, Glenravel, Co. Antrim |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9804836 |
| Date | 08/09 (?)/1838 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 30:04:98. |
| Word Count | 980 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | To: Mrs. [Anne?] Scott Willsborough Derry 183[8?] From: Mount Henry House 25 August Ballybrittars is [?] My dearest Anne I know I ought to have answered your last letter sooner, but I did not & so as I confess delinquency, you are bound to forgive me. Except for one week when I went to the county Wicklow for change of air after the -hooping [whooping?] cough for Edward I have spent this [?] dis[?] summer at home & alone, I had hoped to have enticed the Clements here but they could not come, [Therps?] promised to do so about a month since to make some arrangements about Letting this farm & domain [demesne?] but he disappointed me, & I have now to apply to some of my friends here to act for me; but it would have been more creditable both for him & me had he been very [?] [differences?]; but I suppose he is either too busy or too pleasant at home or too heartless to think of aught stupid or troublesome. Now my child this is in direct confidence & never let it reach his wife's ears; for for (sic) a time will perhaps come when for a short period I shall be [given?] on his attention, & I wish to keep well with him, I am sure she is good & estimable & amenable, but she is surrounded with such a barricade of stiffness & distance & I think, [?]-[?] that I never could love her, as I should wish to love dearest [Therps's?] wife whom in spite of all, I do most truly love I wonder what makes him heartless! I am certain there can be no earthly pleasure equal to loving & being loved & we cannot hope for the one without feeling the others. Henry has thank God been wonderfully well all the summer & has quite puzzled Dr Jacob; he eats, drinks & shops, suffers no pain whatever, but nevers asks a question or takes the least notice of any thing,; he goes out twice a day in a bath chair & sometime in the cariage [carriage?], never asks for me when I am absent or speaks to me when present; he likes to hear me read out to him & sits all day with a book in his hand, but his I think is more like "the ruling passion strong in death", than that he derives any pleasure from what he hears or sees [?] you will say is a sad state, & yet I am thankful that he is even as he is & free from pain; they say he may continue in this state for years; & tho[ugh?]' it has cast a gloom over me forever, yet I feel & know that it is better for me to be thus laid as aside; the world & the pleasures are too enticing for me, & the longer I am shut out from them the better. And would you believe it that I have a strange kind of pleasure in my present solitary life. there is so much of the same kind of vanity in it that it pleases & occupies me. I am meditating asking one of the Ra[?] girls to come to me in the winter but there are many drawbacks to them; they do such odd things & are so adverse to taking advice; but I have a mind to try Jane Eliza; Flora has given all the people offence by her hauteur when she was at [?] Abbey last year; so she will not do I heard a strange account of a party they have in Dublin last spring at which one of them amused the guests by reading alternately Byron & Shakespeare the entire evening. Henrietta Weste [Westenia?] resides at [?] were you not shocked to hear of his death - But I have written thus far without asking one word about yourself & the dear children. but I trust they & you are all well & happy I envy you having a governess that you like & wish I had the same. Mrs [?] takes admirable care of Edwards health & outward mien, has made him manly & independent, but of forming his mind & manners she has not the most remote idea he is very much with myself but then that is not enough. What I want in time to come is a person that would take charge of him & at the same time be a companion to myself if I wished it but just now I dislike changing, until at least this winter be over - for if poor Henry gets thro [through?]' it I really think Jacob's words will prove true Edward is a dear intelligent child, & thank God has got over the hooping [Whooping?] cough wonderfully well have any of yours had it The poor people are in great anxiety about harvest, & so am I about the poor laws, for I positively expect that this estate will be half ruined by them & as to beggars being chassed [chased?] that will never be the case with poor Ireland. I hear from London that our reno[n?] wed cousin Lucas has been a most attentive & efficient counsellor on the subject & that he is much attended to in the house they are now at Turchenham for six weeks & then go to Harrowsgate. You [?] the French Aunt C. [?]'s mother she has been with my Uncle James but is so odd & so mad that none of her family took any notice of her She wears her own hair not a wig, in ringlets down to her waist! - I must now perforce end my [?]rations pray write to me soon And with kind love to Mr S believe dearest Anne ever yr [your?] affete [affectionate?] Olive S. If you have not read Thomas Mose's life by Roberts get it it will delight you. |
