| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1879 |
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| ID | 4192 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/5 |
| 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 | 386 |
| Genre | wages, weather, family |
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| Transcript | 281 Regent Road April 28th 79 Dear Laurence and Mary Ann, I Recived your Letter and we ware glad to Hear that you ware all well. Dear Laurence, I woud answer your Letter Before this But I was very ill myself and 1 was waiting to get Better. I am a Little Better now thanks Be to God for all his Blessings to us. Dear Laurence, This winter was a very Severe winter and a great many old People Died hear. But the weather is Beginning to get a Little Better. Dear Laurence, You Said in your Letter that we made a greate Mistake in the line of mens wages in England. We mad no mistake. You no [know] nothing about the wages the men get heare. We will Spake about our owne. Your Brother Patrick wood Be as well of[f] as William If he Kept of[f] the Beer. He had more than a few pence a week. He had from 26s to 30s aweek and he onley a labmaring [labouring] man. He worked in the Best Shop in the town, Whitworths. We Know more about woork people. We had an Experinc of them. Your Brother William was giving a man 3.5s aweek and in the midle of the week when he wood be in a hury to get the woork Ready he wood leave him in the midst of it and get Drunk and the next Day come in like a man that was mad and Spoile a lot of woork. One of the Best men in the trade in England. Your Brother John Since he gave over Drinking he is a Diferent man. He has 3 hundred pounds in Bank and If he was Drinking he wood not Be worth a farthn. That is anough for us. William is getting on prety well. He has anough to Do to Pay his Calls. One Shop is not Doing much at presant and it is a Draw Back to him. Dear Laurence, I got a letter from the great O Toole Before I got yours and I Sent him a Letter and he has not answered yet. Let us Know all Particulars in your next Letter How you are Getting on. No more at Presant But Remains Your Afectionate Mother an[d] Sister and Brothers until Death |
