| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1879 |
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| ID | 4191 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/4 |
| Year | 1879 |
| Sender | Reynolds, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | head of household |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Recipient | Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | mother-son |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 278 |
| Genre | trade, weather, family, correspondence |
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| Transcript | 281 Regent Ro Salford Feb 3/79 Dear Laurence and Mary Ann, I recived your Letter and gave me and the family great Plashure to heare you ware all well and how Willy injoyed his Little Presant from his unkle and I was very glad to heare that Pre vi son was so chape in Chicago and work getting Better. Dear Laurence, I got a letter from your unkle John the Day I got yours and he is not so well Pleased at previson Beine so chape. He is geting a Bad Price for his hoges and cattle. I was very glad to heare it and I hope it will continue So. Dear Laurence, We had a very hard winter heare. Since Last november we had a hard frost and Snow and out doer woork was all Sloped and times was very Bad. Onley for the money that was Subscribed the Poore wood Be starved. Their was a lot of Soop chitchins in Manchester and Salfor[d]. In fact all England felt it. And a great deale of the Poverty was their own fault when the[y] Earned good waidges the Spent it in the Publick houses. Our busness is a Bit Slack at presant on acont of the woork been slack. Dear Laurence, We got 2 picturs from Brother John his Sons and his Doughter. He said he Did not heare from you Sence he wrote Last. He said he wood goe Down to See you. John and his wife is well. No more at Presant But Remans your Afectionate Mother Sister and Brother until Death PS I hope Jonney will not forget his granmother that and pray for her. |
