| Title: | Mrs Kate Brown, Ontario, to Rev. George Kirkpatrick, Craigs. |
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| ID | 341 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Brown, Kate/22 |
| Year | 1875 |
| Sender | Brown, Kate |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Peterboro, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Antrim, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Rev. George Kirkpatrick |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | niece-uncle |
| Source | D 1424/11: Purchased From Mr John A. Gamble, 44 Taunton Avenue, Belfast 15. #TYPE EMG Letter From Mrs Kate Brown, Box 139, Peterboro [Peterborough?], Ontario, Canada, to Her Uncle, the Rev.[Reverend?] George Kirkpatrick, Hazelbank, Craigs, Belfast, [Co. A |
| Archive | Public Record Office Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9003066 |
| Date | 17/06/1875 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | 04:04:1990 JM created 28:09:1990 CD input 02:10:19 |
| Word Count | 606 |
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| Transcript | Rev George Kirkpatrick Hazelbank Craigs Belfast Co Antrim Ireland June 17th 1875 My dear Uncle I cannot tell you how glad I was to get your dear kind note - I was too ill to read it myself when it came but I got my sister Louisa to read it to me & then I put it under my pillow so that I could look at it very often & as soon as I could I read it myself - I don't think dear uncle you ever could have written a letter before that gave so much pleasure & then the book came with my dear aunts own name in it in her own beautiful writing so like my dear mothers - I have not read much of my book yet as I have had a great deal of sewing to do since I have been able to sit up - The country looks so lovely now everything so green & so many trees & shrubs in flower - Just as I got so far my hand grow so tired & it was nearly dark so I had to put my letter by till this morning - it is not tidy looking but if I wait now to rewrite it I shall be too late for the mail I wish Geraldine would write to me I would so much like to hear from herself of her children, & I know I must not hope to hear very often from you dear uncle as I am sure you have many others to write to - but I would like to write to you sometimes & I shall write to Geraldine too but not this time - I hope she is quite strong again & the two dear little children quite well - how precious our children are when we have been very ill I don't think I ever loved mine so much & never felt their love so precious to me as now - Oh dear uncle no one has so much to be thankful for as I have - so many kind friends & my husband I do wish you knew him I can't say any thing better of him than that my mother had the greatest affection for him, he was like a son to her - I had a letter yesterday from my brother John in Illinois they are getting on so well - they have a lovely farm it is there [their?] own now he paid the last on it this spring, he says he has the finest horses in that part of the states - he was offered $200 for one of them & he sold 7 little pigs only 5 weeks old & got $70 for them, if George is interested in farming still he may like to hear this - John has 25 acres of Indian corn planted, it is a beautiful crop - I never saw it in perfection till last summer, I went down to Kentucky to visit my brother in law & his family & in going through the state of Ohio, there were such immense fields of corn, just as far as I could see, nothing but corn - We have not heard from my brother Charles for some time the last time we heard from Charlotte he was very poorly, I think a trip to his native country would do him good - it would be a serious move for him to come to Canada with his large family so I suppose he wont come, Please dear uncle give my love to all my cousins & a large share for yourself from your affect [affectionate?] neice [niece?] Kate Brown Mrs Robert Brown box 130 Peterboro [Peterborough?] Ontario Canada |
