| Title: | Isabella Weir, Stockton, Cal. to "Dear Sister". |
|---|---|
| ID | 3221 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Weir, Isabella/32(3) |
| Year | 1891 |
| Sender | Weir, Isabella (Bell) |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | about to get married |
| Sender Religion | Episcopalian |
| Origin | Stockton, California, USA |
| Destination | Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | sisters |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co.Fermanagh, BT93 0SA |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9906067 |
| Date | 10/06/1891 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:06:99. |
| Word Count | 727 |
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| Transcript | Stockton June 10th 1891 Dear Sister I recieved [received?] yours a few days ago I am in Stockton still but we intend to go to San Francisco to live for a while I think perhaps we will be married next month he has a good trade Can average about 80 or ninty [ninety?] Doll [Dollars?] per month that ought to keep two from beggary please do not tell Willie about it he would be sure to make so much fun of me So Sadie is married to Duke at last I suppose Maggie will be next give Mrs Kelly my love I do not feel like writing to any one but you you know what a poor correspondent I am I had no letter from Willie in some time but expect one daily you spoke of sending me some white dresses I will try and get along for a while with my sateen It is not the material that costs so much it is the making I shall have to pay 5 Doll to have it made I think it would be made just as good in the East for 2« or three at most my hat would not have cost more than four at most in the East today The heat is nearly oppressive They are harvesting and about through haying The sprinkling carts are out but it is (sic) but the dusts blows just fearful I am glad you dont disapprove of what I intend doing time will decide if it is for the best I shall go home sometime and that time may not be so far distant as we imagine what is Willie and you going to do Stay at home I think he is foolish for going he is doing so well here he could soon have a start made that would not compel him to work all his days California has been favoring him since he has visited her shores I saw the Fire Engine go out a few evenings ago The [They?] had more facination [fascination?] for me than the fire The team was a large noble looking one coming with lightening [lightning?] speed The fire flying from the engine which the [they?] light as the [they?] leave the house I do not wonder he likes it The close confinement is the only unpleasant part of it and what is our lives we have both shadow and sunshine mixed I tell you ranching as the [they?] call it that is working as a farm hand has its drawbacks he mad [made?] it so pleasant for me when I visited him in Fresno are you going this month I will send that change you sent to me with willie and am so thankful for it It was very opportune will you take the old trunk home from Uncle Bobs for Fathers sake it is very dear to me will you bid them goodbye I will go back perhaps before a great while I think I told you my favourite is from the State of Illinois The World Fair is to be held in Chicago in ninty [ninety?] three I intend going back then if not before If I go there I will see Michigan before I come back but all this lies in the future which God alone knows do not write home to them anything particular about me I am sorry I cannot go home and see Mother but I will sometime I expect a letter very soon from there now you remember how green and childish you and me were we thought we would not stay long in yankee land but we changed our minds I would like so much to cross the sea with you but it is decreed otherwise and if we perchance may meet no more again in this life I trust I shall live so to meet you in the next I am a little troubled with catarrh in my throat I think you used to have it are you entirely well of it now When Willie writes to me he may let me know when he is coming So Mr Wood is at Kalamazoo he is still engineering I suppose I can think of little more to write about this time but hope to hear from you again before you start now Goodbye from your Sister Isabella Weir 373 Markel St Stockton Cala [California?] |
