| Title: | George R. Wood, Kalamazoo, Michigan, to "Miss Annie Weir" |
|---|---|
| ID | 3403 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Wood, George R/63 |
| Year | 1892 |
| Sender | Wood, George R. |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | asylum attendant |
| Sender Religion | Baptist |
| Origin | Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA |
| Destination | Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Annie |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs. Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 0SA |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9904212 |
| Date | 24/04/1892 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 23:04:99. |
| Word Count | 469 |
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| Transcript | Kalamazoo Asylum Mich [Michigan?] April th 24/92 Miss Annie Weir Dear Friend I received your wellcome [welcome?] letter a few days ago and was glad to hear from you also glad to hear that you were well and enjoying good helth [health?] as I am doing the same myself I am very sorry you did not attend that wedding you said you would tell me something why did you not put it in the letter. Annie you say when you see me you will tell me I am thinking you will be far over the deep blue sea before many months [past?] you wanted to know when I had a vacation it his [is?] due in June but I dont think I shall take one we have to loose [lose?] them two weeks pay and it cost me so much to come and go you was saying something in your letter about Miss Livingstone I now [know?] you was only fooling that his [is?] all O.K. I had a letter from your Sister a short time ago and if I have read that letter over once I have read it over 100 times I am very sorry for here [her?] she his [is?] not contented there but she said she will have to make the best of it now she also said if she had here [her?] time to live over again she would not go to California but I think I shall go if I go to see the Country I think that I can get money enought [enough?] to come back if I dont like it there but if I was to go there I should give it a fair trial your Sister says if she was me she never would go there she never told me if she got an Asylum fellow or not I am sorry for here [her?] sake and yours that she ever went there out in that Country all alone of course it his [is?] different if I was to go boys can get along where a Girl cannot. well well Miss. Harrison made a mark on Mr [Hulsor?] what his [is?] the matter with Agusty Gaddam So you say Mr. Duffey [Duffy?] his [is?] going to get married Maggie Ashby I suppose what was the matter with Miss Gould made her leave so sudden now think on and answear [answer?] all those questions when you write to me the weather still keeps cool hear [here?] yet no wonder of you growling to me about it being cold on the Halls (sic) I now [know?] what it his [is?] now So think that I will have to quit as this letter will make your eyes ack [ache?] reading it So will say good by by (sic) for this time From Geo. [George?] R. Wood Kalamazoo Box A Asylum hopeing [hoping?] to heare [hear?] from you Soon |
