| Title: | M Smyth, Essex, to E C Smyth, Castledamph, Co Tyrone, |
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| ID | 2923 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Mary/11(2) |
| Year | 1903 |
| Sender | Smyth, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | student |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Presbyterian) |
| Origin | Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Castledamph, Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Eliza C. |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 0507003 |
| Date | 26/03/1903 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:07:2005. |
| Word Count | 876 |
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| Transcript | [Front of Envelope] Miss E. C. Smyth Castledamph Plumbridge Co Tyrone Ireland [Postage Stamp] Canada Postage Two Cents 2 2 [Stamped] ESSEX MR 27 03 [ONT?] [Stamped in Circle] T [Back of Envelope] [Written on Back] Arived [Arrived?] April 13th 1903 [Stamped] WINDSOR 11 MR 27 03 ONT [NEWTOWNSTEWART?] AM 5 0 AP 03 HAMILTON, CANADA. MAR 27 8-PM 1903 [Page 1] Essex March 26, 03 Dear Sister Rec. [Received?] your welcome letter and its contained [sic] yesterday. I was very glad to get so little as I had just run out all but 10 cts. [cents?] I got it changed today I got $2.43 cts for it Well I was up to Windsor on Friday last and I got a new skirt as I have no good one now I have to wear my other one to school it is all [sic] the black one I have got. I have the blue skirt but I can’t wear it with my red [waist?]. I am getting it made with a train on it. I may send you the appearance of it if I get it in a book. I also got a few [waists?] for summer at 6D a yard and also a pair of shoes. I am enclosing my photo & also Mabel’s we got these taken the week that the school was closed on account of the small–pox scare. Well it is pretty near all over or the talk is settled anyway but they say there are five cases in town All in the school are compelled to get vaccinated must all show [Page 2] their certificates. I have got mine. You can’t go near anyone but they’ll tell you to watch their sore arm. Well now I left what I intended to say about the photos I want you to tell me all the criticisms. I had on the coat I got before I left home and the hat I got the first winter I was here so that all things are not very uptodate [up to date?]. I had on the red [waist?] that I sent you the pattern off. Be sure and tell me if you think I’m changed anything. I suppose I will have to send Bella one What about sending one to Beck [Rebecca?]. It is not etiquette to send an [a?] strangers [sic] photo with your own but perhaps she wouldn’t mind. How is all the folks. Has John gone back to work yet. I am waiting for a letter from Bella Some of these days I think she owes me one. You said in one of your letters that you stopped down with Bella that Davie was at Wm [William?] Houston [Huston?] wake but you never told me that he died or when but I took it for granted that he must be dead [Page 3] When they had the wake. Well as you know by this time I have changed boarding places. I like this much better here more fun. There are [sic] one other girl rooming here the same as I and three others! that just take their meals here one of them is the High School teacher Miss Grant another is Miss Arnold her Picture is in some of those Lyceum pictures I think she teaches in Public School and the other is a Miss Reynolds [head?] milliner in one of the largest store here. There was a boy boarding here but he left on Monday a young fellow by the name of Park he was very comical he had always something to say but he is gone so you see we are all hens here now except Mr Hall the Man of the House He is in the Post Office Miss Hall is going to get married on [sic] one of Fred Bennett’s brothers on the 8th of May and of course I shall be present at the ceremony. The Bennetts will soon all be married just one left. This boy has a foundry and owns it [Page 4] They are not going away very far just live next door She can run out & in here when she wants too. I’m sorry she is getting married as it will not be so lively here. I want to have my new skirt made for it. There will be about forty present I think. I dont think Jim will get an invitation as they are not inviting any outsiders. Jim boarded here before when he was going to school. He is boarding now at the hotel and I tell you I would rather he would go some other place, On Sunday last there were a lot of boys of the town around there as drunk as they could be and I don’t know whether Jim tak [took?] any or not but Monday morning he never woke up till a quarter past nine and was late for school & when some of them asked him why he didn’t wake up he said he was drunk the night before. I dont know whether he takes it or not but I think he would be as well from the hotel Don’t mention anything when you write to him of what I said. I know he is not against the whiskey like he was when at home. Good Bye [Goodbye?] Write Soon M. [Mary] Smyth [Written upside down Top of Page 3] I’m sorry to hear of Russell. Its too bad. Jim said at the time that Bella was married that it would have been better for her to married [sic] Russell that she would had an easier time but I’m afraid she is better off where she is. I would like to see him now. Transcribed by Elizabeth Prentice |
