| Title: | George Burton, [?] to "My Dear Cousin" |
|---|---|
| ID | 415 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Burton, George/9 |
| Year | 1889 |
| Sender | Burton, George |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | coal miner |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | USA |
| Destination | prob. Michigan, USA |
| Recipient | Weir, Anne |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mrs Linda Weir, Tirmacspird, Lack, Co. Fermanagh, BT93 OSA |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9906010 |
| Date | 04/03/1889 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 03:06:99. |
| Word Count | 525 |
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| Transcript | Wednesday March 4th 1889 My Dear Cousin I right [write?] to you once more to let you know I got your letter all right [alright?] which give me a [greated?] of pleasure to hare [hear?] from you and to know that you got my letter all right [alright?] for I would not wish to have to go out of the way for it was my first in some time and indeed I am not the best in the world at the pen so now anie [Annie?] I must tell you something of my life And what I work at now is in A coal yeard [coal yard?] it is pretty hard work And I feel pretty well used up now at it And I could wish after for the Dear old times that are past to come again but I feel sure the [they?] are past never to come again but such is life I have got A very bad cold for the past to [two?] weeks I have felt very bad but I will soon be all right [alright?] [---?] I feel very sorry to here [hear?] of cousan [cousin?] [Bellier?] going so very far away but I hope it is for the better and we must all do the best we can for it is not our father and mothers home that we have to go to now if we want for anything but I never wanted for anything yet thank the Lord for all his kind mercy to me And I have been pritty [pretty?] well all over the country I have been out your way once so far at Minesota [Minnesota?] but I think you are more south of that part but had I ever new [knew?] where you were I would have seen you I liked it very well out there in the summer time but in the winter it is very on pleasant [unpleasant?] And to tell you the truth I has to work like a slave in fact I have to work just as hard now once my day is shorter And I have Sunday to my self but the [they?] were few weeks out in the west When I did not know when Sunday came I was not at home then I had to take the time as the [they?] come I have been working for over A year wher [where?] I am Now but I am going to see if I cant do better when the summer time comes if the Lord spares me life and helth [health?] to do so for I think it is to [too?] bad to spend all my youthful ays [days?] for nothing Annie I must tell you that I have not got a picture of my own this time but as soon as I can get a chance to get off to have them taken I will shure [sure?] send you one but I don't think the [they?] will be very much for I am Just the same as ever I was so now Cousan [Cousin?] Annie I must draw to a close good by as I remain yours truley [truly?] George Burton |
