| Title: | Bell [Weir?], Michigan. to "Dearest Sister", [?] |
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| ID | 3199 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Weir, Isabella/4 |
| Year | 1887 |
| Sender | Weir, Isabella (Bell) |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | asylum attendant |
| Sender Religion | Episcopalian |
| Origin | Pontiac, Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs. Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, Bt93 0OSA |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9905009 |
| Date | 06/03/1887 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 12:05:99. |
| Word Count | 457 |
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| Transcript | Pontiac March 6/87 Dearest Sister I suppose you think I am so taken up with my folly I have forgotten you But no you are life of my life of life without thee my life would Be of very little value to me I must tell you my corsit [corset?] fits real nice and so does my slippers but I feel so sorry I did not get a pair for you But I think I am so like mother and you are so like father I can never hope to do what I ought Believe me it has cast me a good many unhappy thoughts I am the oldest and I feel as if I ought to look to your wants more than my own But I am very different do I act I only wish you were here But I am afraid the [stained] filling up so it will be hard to tell when there will Be a vacancy well the two Allens were up here Saturday week and stayed till monday I saw them coming But I did not speak to them [afterwards?] [Vill?] was going to come to See me But as luck would have it she did not get here and I was just as glad for She would have had a story I dont know But She had one anyhow I had a another offer to take me to Chuch [church?] this evening But I as usual Backed out and what is funnier still I had an offer of marriage from one of the patients he sent me 15 or 6 [16?] notes and at last there came the proposal I want to know how you are going to have the Dresses made and I want you to have them as neat as [wax?] and Buy some still to put into the Back of them and send me word when you are coming up and I want you to look your very best and I want to feel proud of you how is Mrs Jackson and what time did Joe go home and what did Uncle and lib say about me not going see them But I shall hear all when I see you I am going to write a letter to grandma this evening oh how I wish I was to home again it Seems So Strange we cannot have a letter from there I walked strait [straight?] home from the depot and oh I felt So tired the next day But I Soon got over it and I have not Been out since now I must draw my short letter to a short close and send you a sweet Kiss and a kind goodbye to all from your own Sister Bell Write Soon |
