| Title: | [Cassie Smyth?], [Ontario?], to Bella [Smyth?], [Castledamph?] |
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| ID | 2620 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Cassie/10 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Smyth, Cassie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | student |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Castledamph, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Bella M. and Eliza |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth. |
| Doc. No. | 605070 |
| Date | 25/03/1893 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 246 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | [Incomplete Letter] [Page 1] Chatham, March 25/93 Dear cousins Bella and Eliza, I did not receive your letter directly as it stopped some little time at Woodslee Was going to write last saturday so almost all my writing on Saturdays now - but got too lazy so postponed it for another week. I cannot tell you much Woodslee news as all I know about [sic] is what Belle writes to me, but it is likely James has told you all that. Will try to tell you a little about our college life. There were from 110 to 120 students all winter but that number is decreasing now as a number of young men take a course [Page 2] during the winter months, and then leave when the spring works begins. Shortly after my arrival here one the teachers left the college and Mr McLachlan [McLaughlin?] asked me to take part of the work together with the other studies, so you see I have plenty of work. It will take me longer to get through in shorthand on that account as I havent as much time for it as I would otherwise have. Do not like it so well as I did the book keeping. We do not get out of school as early in the afternoon as you do; we go at nine at the morning and stay until twelve, and then we have an hour and a half in which to get our dinner, then school again from half past one until four I [Pages Missing] Transcribed by Greg Floyd |
