| Title: | Nancy Wightman, Alabama to William [Wightman, Ireland?]. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3334 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wightman, Nancy/33 |
| Year | 1834 |
| Sender | Wightman, Nancy |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Protestant |
| Origin | Woodland, Alabama, USA |
| Destination | N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Wightman, William |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | aunt-nephew |
| Source | T 1475/1 p26: Copied by Permission of Miss A. McKisack, 9 Mount Pleasant, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9404166 |
| Date | 05/07/1834 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 20:04:1994. |
| Word Count | 625 |
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| Transcript | Wood-Land [Woodland?] July 5th 1834 My dearest William, I am delighted to hear such good accounts of your improvement at school, and I hope in all respects you are growing better. Your dear Father and Uncle Henderson were very dutiful and affectionate to their parents from their earliest days. They read the Bible and hated sinful ways, and it appeared that God blessed them, and I trust you often think of the Lord knowing every thought of our heart, and seeing every act that you commit, and would it not be pleasant for you and your sister Ann to talk of the love of Christ in coming down from Heaven to die for Sinners. I am now very sorry that I did not love and try to please God when I was a little girl. I commited a great deal of sin for I never thought of the worth of my Soul and the danger I was in of being eternally lost. The Bible says "without holiness no man shall see the Lord". Your mother wrote to us that she would like you to be a preacher, and if your heart was prepared for the work I should rejoice to see you one. I send you a book which you will accept as a token of my love. I fear I cannot get a suitable one in Florence for Ann for we have not the variety there that you have in your book stores in Belfast. I seldom see John, but I can tell you he is a tall youth He does not talk enough to please me but I hope he will change and become more agreeable in his manner. I intend walking into Florence this evening, tomorrow will be the Sabbath. I should like to have you for company. It is a lonely way. No little cabins to be seen save two or three. The weather is so exceedingly warm that I must let the sun be nearly down ere I set out. We have had great gathering of blackberries here, you never such thickets of them in Ireland. They are sweeter and better and have no worms in them. The insects would amuse and torment you if you were here, you cannot sit by a candle with any comfort. They are flying in your face every minute, some of them very large and ugly. I am obliged to keep my window open all night so that I have plenty of company. I am told the bats bite and I like to turn them out if possible. You would admire the beautiful birds. One rainy night I heard something flutter against my window, I opened it and a lovely red bird flew in and spent the night with me. The mocking birds sing very sweetly at night. You would be delighted to hear them. I hope to see you if we both live and shall tell you of many pretty things I have seen. I suppose John will give you an account of their doings in Florence yesterday. I wrote to your friend Mr McNeilly. You ought to be very thankful to have such kind friends and I am anxious that you should treasure up all the good advice Mr Mc [McNeilly?] gives you, and that you attend to all his wishes. I look forward with great pleasure to receiving a letter from you and Ann. I am not hard to entertain on paper. Isaac Sinpson is getting well. It is a pleasant sight to see them all merry and playing about after their tedious sickness. Give my love dear William to your Grandmother, and Aunt Eliza and Jane. To your Mother and Ann, Aunt McAllister, Margaret and Charles and believe me your truly affectionate Aunt. Nancy Wightman. |
