| Title: | William Weir, Co Monaghan, to "Dear Jonny" |
|---|---|
| ID | 3249 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Weir, William/4 |
| Year | 1913 |
| Sender | Weir, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | farmer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Co. Monaghan, Ireland |
| Destination | Co. Fermanagh, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Weir, Jonny |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co Fermanagh, BT93 OSA |
| Archive | The Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9909204 |
| Date | 1/10/1913 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 10:09:99. |
| Word Count | 231 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | Dear [Jonny?] I [hope?] [these?] few lines will find yous [you?] all well. the leave us [fairly?][now?] [you?] I have had a bad time of it the while I would a rote [wrote?] sooner only for it. I saw the time I never thought it would a been this way with me but it is a long time since I left home now fortytoo [forty two?] years on the third of last month [corn?] was earlier that year. I supose [suppose?] you have hardly got it all out yet there is some to cut here yet I hope you will be able to come down to see us [when?] it is [out?] we are thinking long to we get our [cub?] I can not get the house finished but is is near it there is a lot of people looking to take it off me I here [hear?] no word of having to leave this yet I do not want to leave this I think it will pay as well as any road we will go we are digging in our potatoes out of the garden the [they?] never was [were?] better in it I have a lor of verry [very?] nice Potatoes I hope yous [you?] will rite [write?] soon and let us know when we will get our cub. I remain Ever your true brother Wm [William?] Weir |
