| Title: | A. Wilson, Pennsylvania, to the Patrick Family, Ballymena. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3365 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wilson, A/18 |
| Year | 1842 |
| Sender | Wilson, A. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Easton, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Destination | Ballymena, Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Patrick family |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | T 1370/4: Copied by Permission of Dr. M.S. Patrick |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, N. Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9506115 |
| Date | 21/12/1842 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 15:06:1995. |
| Word Count | 669 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | Easton, Dec. 21st [1842?] My Young Friend, Your Mother's letter [torn] to me a few days ago, mentioned [torn] your name, and it is a melancholy [torn] pleasure to send a friend [torn] a photograph of your cousin [torn] Harry Havelock [resulting?] [torn] A last November 11th after [torn] a few days [likeness?], [--?] [torn] from an affection of the [kidney?] [torn] which unknowingly to us [torn] been felt by him for some [torn] past, we all [-----?] Harry [torn] and he was well [--------?] [torn] of it, his natural kindness [torn] of heart made him a favourite [torn] with every one who knew him [torn] every spot about the house [torn] reminded us painfully often [torn] [advanced?], which at least to [torn] Mother and myself will [torn] time be partially removed but [torn] still uppermost in our thoughts [torn] during the remainder of [our?] [torn] life be it long or short. Tell your Mother I feel gratified at the feeling of sympathy expressed for us in her letter For the [s------?] sacrament which [torn] we met with, but seem in the [torn] midst of the afflictive dispensation There's great consolation in feeling that there is [torn] a place of meeting where no separation takes place. The likeness is a good one of [torn] Harry, but the surface is very [torn] rough from having the photograph enlarged from one that [torn] much smaller. By your Mother's letter I find [torn] for all at School, since I [torn] hoped from will although feel the great importance of having [torn] a good education, it is [torn] [---?] began and the possession of [torn] money, for it can never be [torn] lost or taken away from you [torn] and will always secure for [torn] for you the means of making [torn] a reputable liveing [living?] if every [torn] thing else fails, and there [torn] is now a much better opportunity for securing a good [education?] than when your [torn] grandfather and we were Forcing men for teachers then were not half educated, and [torn] and after we were able, to work, only got to School in winter, carrying [torn] with us two peats to keep the School house fire going back [----?] the public schools in Ireland has good teachers, far better than when I went to a country School, but then that you must a [torn] [-ember?] is sixty years ago, and [torn] everything even in Ireland [torn] has improved very much [torn] since then, you have a grand [torn] opportunity for getting a good [torn] education in Ballymena, so [torn] near home we had to send [torn] your cousin Katie off home as nearly [torn] [-------?] [droved?] miles when the [torn] so as educated and she the only [torn] got him twice a year and [torn] for a few weeks only, but I [torn] suppose you are tired he air [torn] everything about [--?] [active?] is [------?] my mind as when I left it nearly fifty years ago I can see old Slamish back of farmhouse where I [stood?] on its old grey top, sixty years ago, where I [torn] then put myself up amongst the clouds and looks on the [torn] wide spread heather hills in full bloom. For [-----?] at [torn] me, and even now there are few things more beautiful than heather in full bloom [torn] or hills covered with whins [torn] blooming blossoms, unless it [torn] be the hedges of [heather?] [torn] who sweet smell scents the [torn] been over doing atmosphere I am sure you are fully tired of this [-----?] long rambling letter which I [torn] send you with the photograph [torn] of Harry, so that you may [torn] remember away out in this [torn] far off [stretches?] would the [torn] had a cousin well worthy [torn] of being remembered, I wrote from Mother after [torn] time ago, Remember me and [torn] all of us kindly to him and [torn] your other friends, from A. Wilson [torn] |
