| Title: | [S. Meek?], Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada to a Friend. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3997 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1871-80/7 |
| Year | 1873 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | unknown |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Smith Falls, Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | T 2675/7: Copied by Permission of Joseph Halliday Esq., 341 Albertbridge Road, Belfast. |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland. |
| Doc. No. | 9007143 |
| Date | 15/03/1873 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by JM 06:09:1993. |
| Word Count | 451 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | From: Smiths Falls 15th Mar [March?]/73 [1873?] My Dear Friend You can not think how very glad I was to hear from you & Miss Davison again I received your letters by this evening's post and haste to reply I often wondered what had happened to my friends on the other side of the Atlantic I feared that I had offended you all, as I have not had a letter from any one since last Septem[ber?] you had answered my former letters so punctually that I often puzzled my brain thinking why you did not write I had come to the mortifying conclusion that it must be my own fault, that I had not made my letters more interesting I was glad to hear that your dear Father & Mother were quite well Pa so often speaks of them I am sure you will have (or have had I should say as you will be at home e'er this reaches you) a pleasant time in Belfast I have some very sweet recollections of that city or rather of some persons in it, but I fear poor me is quite forgotten. I have so many things I would like to write about I do not know where to begin. I was delighted to learn that the numbers of the "No Compromise" true to their name have continued to stand up for the sacred cause #PAGE 2 so dear to my heart I trust the time is not far distant when all organizations for the spread of Temperence [Temperance?] will not be needed & that all our people will rejoin in the total overthrow of King Alcohol, till that happy time comes, let us work with a will putting our trust in the All mighty and All wise if it will encourage you all in the good work & had you to think) if your Temple ever meets with persecution) that we suffer in common, we had a rented Hall and one evening when we were about to open the Lodge a message came for us to leave the Hall immediately, through some one getting up a scurrilous report about some of our members that was wholly untrue no time was given to examine the matter but then & there although it was pouring rain, we had to move our furniture out fortunately one of the members had an empty ware room & we met there for a time & now we have the prospect of getting a hall of our own I think the wetting we got that night did us all good It strikes me very forcibly that you promised me your carte de visite please send me one in your next I would like to have it so much Yours [S. Meek?] |
