| Title: | J. Wightman, U.S.A. to Miss Margaret Wightman, Belfast. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3329 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wightman, James/63 |
| Year | 1836 |
| Sender | Wightman, James |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Elizabethtown, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Belfast, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Wightman, Margaret |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | unknown |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Prof. J.A. Faris, 15 Coney Island, Ardglass, Co. Down. BT30 7UQ |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park. |
| Doc. No. | 9708180 |
| Date | 29/04/1836 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 29:08:97. |
| Word Count | 519 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Miss Margaret Wightman Belfast Ireland Conway, Elizabethtown April 29th 1836 [torn] [Margaret?] I have generally written to [Eli---?] [torn] [--?] circumstance of her being the eldest [torn] any partiality of affection for in this I never could make any distinction - I trust that you will have the happiness of receiving this from the hands of your aunt Nancy who is to depart hence in an hour or two, after a transient visit of three days. I feel most disappointed at her leaving so soon, but engagements and arrangements she has to attend to in Philadelphiaurge her departure from this neighbourhood of [sen--?] Hottentots - she came in on me unawares and unexpected Indeed I did not [torn] her here before the end of [torn] should I have known her at first, had she not exclaimed "My Mother" immediately on my appearance - I had pictured her in my [imagin-----?][torn] of austere countenance with "prime puke [torn] combed hair" but found her cheerful and [torn] out any of these distinctive, sectarian [torn] too often lurks a corrupt heart - I [bel----?] [torn] very pious and sincere christian, and that no [torn] or religious attainments than ever I can expect, however [mu--?] I may hope to acquire - she thinks I am in a [bad?] way because I cannot think as she does and subscribe to the popish doctrine of the Trinity - firmly beleiving as I do that our saviour himself was a unitarian and [usu-?] [for--ly?] ascribed all glory to the Father, I must [expre--?] [torn] change in my conviction [torn] notwithstanding I wish you [torn] with attention that instruction and [torn] of imparting keeping in mind [torn] adherence to this or that particular case [torn] [stain] our salvation, but the true and [torn] of these two commandments on which hang all the laws, and the performance of those duites which Christ has enjoined, without referring to to St. [athom--as? sees or any other modern saint of the Romish [ch----?] Harvey said so much on religion I wish you to assure your aunt that I am not so indifferent a christian as she supposes me to be, and that I consider it rather it rather irreligious to be always [dis--------?] our temper of men what it may - this [summer?] has no [stain] to her [torn] I could not so apply it without doing her injustice - [torn] to [stain] I do not expect that my sister [torn] before the 10th May - I shall if [torn] there before she goes, and forward a letter [torn] [---ter?] Ann, I wrote to Mr Tucker soon after I received Eliza's [torn] [----ent?] of her marriage I was very well acquainted with her Father - I have but partially recovered from another severe attack of fever. I think I kept the bed for 5 weeks, we have had an unusually long winter, one snow storm after another even until the middle of April - there was no ploughing done until last week, and very little oats have yet been sown - God bless you dear Margaret J. Wightman |
