| Title: | "Loving Mother & Sisters", Edenclaw to "Dear Annie". |
|---|---|
| ID | 3196 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Weir Family/96 |
| Year | 1890 |
| Sender | Weir Family |
| Sender Gender | |
| Sender Occupation | farmers |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Edenclaw, Co. Fermanagh, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | unknown |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co.Fermanagh, BT93 0SA. |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9905049 |
| Date | 21/09/1890 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 12:05:99. |
| Word Count | 493 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Edenclaw 21/9/90 Dear Annie. It was a surprise when we got yours yesterday. Mother was so glad to hear you were well as this leaves us in at present Thank God for it Mother is a good deal better now though not quite strong yet the harvest is not a good one this time we have a good lot of corn cut but were not done yet the last week has been wet and windy we had the hay all up before the wet came so we had not much trouble with it we will soon have winter again as the weather is getting cold Andrew Knox has sold Emerys place again to his brother Thomas he gave us a great deal of bother about that old bog I dont know how we will do now he is not much the better of it (sic) he has lost a cow and [Kate?] is simple people say but we dont know much about them It was old debt for the place Mr Atthill was in for to Miss Porter you may have heard about it Miss [Amy?] will write this evening she told me today she says she has so much to do that she would not consider any harm to write on Sunday she has promised it many a time she will redeem it now she says we like her very well she is so kind and good I still take an interest in the sending of a paper and we will send you one anytime we can Mother is able to go about pretty well we have been busy with the harvest this time back so we must be excused now we will write a long letter again I hope you will come home some day but not soon the weather is rough so we had a good deal of trouble with the corn we have none stacked yet it takes such a long time to go from [this?] that that we count it buried in the dead past every item of our lives [seems?] to work out the plan of a Fathers hand some day we will meet and then you will know something of the hearts you left behind Willie Weir need not complain if they have enough to do besides writing to him they say he is doing well out there but it is hard for him for to forsake his father and sisters for sake of wealth but our notions are rather obtruse in such matters Rosey says she would write but you wouldnt care for it as she is not fond of writing Maggie is a good girl and lively but Rose is quiet and retiring in disposition and Johnny he is to Mother the best of the party but there is not much news Lizzie Taylor is gone today to America because a person wont marry her but excuse this short reply from your loving Mother and Sisters. |
