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Title: [?], Edenclaw, to Annie Weir, Michigan
ID3236
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
FileWeir, Rose/4
Year1888
SenderWeir, Rose
Sender Genderfemale
Sender Occupationfarming household
Sender ReligionProtestant
OriginEdenclaw, Co. Fermanagh, N.Ireland
DestinationPontiac, Michigan, USA
RecipientWeir, Annie
Recipient Genderfemale
Relationshipsisters
SourceCopyright Retained by Mrs. Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 0SA
ArchiveThe Ulster American Folk Park
Doc. No.9904025
Date11/01/1888
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogDocument added by LT, 07:04:99.
Word Count234
Genre
Note
TranscriptEdenclaw
11th Jan 88

Dear Sister
I now take the pleasure
of writing these few lines to let you
we are all well at present thanks
be to a kind providence we have very
weather at present We havent had
much snow yet we were in [-d-----y?]
Maggie & I last Saturday Miss Agnes
invited up all her Sunday School
schollars [scholars?] she had a beautiful Xmas
tree & buns and tea I got a little knit
basket and a picture frame Maggie
got a knife & fork & spoon & a box of
sweets weve got the books from Mr Wilson
I got two from him the name of the was
Earnest Women & the other the
Royal Banner very nice books I
got some good books from Miss Williamson
every Sunday George Mc Farlane
went away to America last week
he eloped with his masters daughter Robert
[Wamselays?] daughter there is some
marrying here too & death is busy
Old Tommy Simpson wife is dead
yesterday Mary Noble was asking
me werent you coming home I said
that I had heard nothing
about it I think I have given
you all the news I can you
thought you had given a lot
of news in your last letter
I suppose you be tired writing
[yet be used?] of this I am sure
& a [no?] more at present
write soon I send plenty of news

[ENVELOPE]

Miss Annie Weir,
Pontiac,
E.M.A Mich