| Title: | Anna McClelland, [?] to Anne Weir, [?] |
|---|---|
| ID | 3762 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | mcclelland, anna/41 |
| Year | 1886 |
| Sender | McClelland, Anna |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | student |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Michigan?, USA |
| Destination | prob. Pontiac, 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. | 9906019 |
| Date | 06/03/1886 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:06:99. |
| Word Count | 341 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | [Yia?] March 6., 1886 friend Anne, I got your letter some time ago, but I did not deliver the message to you but I got it delivered for me. I did not get this letter very far done this is the [the?] 16 now our school was out last friday. we all got nice cards but I got sick friday after I came home from school and I have not done anything since I was in bed till noon to day the hay-presser's is here now but willie is not here but Lymet is and Dick was here last night but he went a way [away?] this morning and that other fellow is not here the oldest one that had so much to say You is going to work here this summer that will be nice Peter does not like it a bit the way you are publishing news down there we here [hear?] a good deal of what you say about him he took the letter you sent the kiss in and tore the peice [piece?] you had it in all up and does not want you to send any more you seem to be telling about You too we are all sick with the cold it is very muddy now Uncle Alex & Aunt Becca was here 3« days & 4 nights were you at Mr Thompsons funeral. Mrs Thompsons is here now is Bella at I Purdy's yet & does she like it there well I am ashamed of my writing I do not feel like writing today we get over a dozen of eggs a day most every body is sick now do you like to live down there better than you did up here I suppose Mack Means & you have big times Willie Birth day [birthday?] was last friday we have not any little calvs [calves?] yet have you did you get your 2 papers they were here a while. I guess I will draw to a close so good-by [goodbye?] from your friend Anna McClelland to Anne Weir |
