| Title: | N.B. Smyth, [New Orleans?] To [Dr. Andrew Smyth?] [Donemana?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3002 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, Natalie Bouligny/7 |
| Year | 1909 |
| Sender | Bouligny Smyth, Nathalie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Andrew Wood |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | wife-husband |
| Source | Copyright Retained By Brendan O'Reilly, Main Street, Dromara |
| Archive | Original Held By Above Donor |
| Doc. No. | 9810121 |
| Date | 3/4/1909 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:11:98. |
| Word Count | 649 |
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| Transcript | 1435 St. Andrew's St, April 1909 Dear Doc- By the above you see we are again in our old haunt. We are staying with Sallie McEnery - who is very sweet and kind to us. Arthermise got tired of having us & took the excuse that David's wife was coming to see her from El Paso to ask us to go as she needed our room - Sallie had asked me to come to see her and so we took advantage of her offer and are here. There is not much news in regard to the land except that the judgements are found to be nothing much to be feared. They lapse of themselves in Dec next and Mr Lemle thinks that as no record has been made of them they are not to be feared. There has been some talk of negotiation about [ceding?] the lands for a cash amount reserving a half or third interest in the profits; but so far nothing has been concluded and I think the plan is off. Mr Lemle went yesterday to consult [H?].B. [Sr?] but what other plan they may have adopted I don't yet know. Of your 2,000 odd acres there are left to your name 618 acres in all - some of this land has not been approved and it remains to be seen whether we can get it done. The most valuable part is that which runs along the Basin to West End. It has been drained a beautiful shell [road?] made - the land divided into lots and streets and taken possession of under these improvements by the N.O. [New Orleans?] Land Company. Of course this means litigation to prove our title. The [burying?] up of the old half - burnt Le Breton grant upon which the Canal Bank [runs?] its [suit?] leaves people in fear that [aurcher] old grant might come in here to deprive us of the patents. This is about all that has been done so far as I know about anything. Since my last letter to you of the tumours I have beem living in dread - that dread was lifted by your letter and prescription which I took to Dr Matas day before yesterday. Now all the anxiety and dread are back again - for he advises an operation. I enclose you a letter from him on the subject. He says that he is not so sure of the tumours being strictly fibroid now. I wish it did noy take so long for a letter to come back and I would wait what you say, but if I wait and have to be operated in the hot weather will be upon us and I must return home before I have exhausted my welcome here and at [Jane's?] where I expect to go. God knows what I am enduring of terror and anxiety and worry - the [money?] consideration alone for my stay at Tours infirmary and the special nurses will take up nearly all the money I counted upon for my return - and you know Mr Mc Clatchie of the Belfast bank must be paid in May, which is the time limit for the money he lent me to come over here - Will you see about it? He acted so nicely by me that I think us honour bound he should not be bothered by the payment. Dr Matas says that the pro rata of deaths from operations of this sort has been diminished from 60% to a small amount - but nevertheless there is the chance and I feel somehow as if it were against me and I am in terror. Goodbye I thank you for trying to help me with that prescription but Dr Matas says that the growths being extra uterine would not be helped by it - God help me if I should die what is to become of Arthe. Yours, Nato. |
