| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1880 |
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| ID | 4195 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/8 |
| Year | 1880 |
| 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 | 393 |
| Genre | family, trade |
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| Transcript | 281 Regent Rd Oct 18 - /80 Dear Laurence & Mary Ann, We Recived your Kind Letter & cartes. We ware glad to Hear that you ware all well as we are all in at presant, thank god. Dear Laurence, we wood not Delay so Long in Answering your Letter but we ware very Busy and William was in Ireland when we got your Letter. William and John was in Ireland on a visit for a few Days in the Co Wicklow and the[y] ingoyed them Selves very much. It is a most Beautiful place. The Scenery is grand. No place like Dear Old Ireland. Dear Laurence & Mary Ann, we ware Surprised when we Seen Willies cart. He lookes So Big. He is getting a fine young man for his age. I Hope He will Soon be able to Help you. We ware glad to He are that Mary Ann ingoyed Herself so much in unkle Johns and his wife was So Kind to Her. We got no answer from Lizzie O Toole yet. We Expect She will not forget us. Dear Laurence, we are all in good health at presant and we have plenty of woork. Patrick is working for William and he is Doing very well. He has taken a good deale of the work of[f] William. We opened an other shop in Harpurhey neer the queens park. It is a very nice Shop, £30/ a year and taxes. I think it will do well in time. It is not Doing very much yet But we Expect it will. It made us Busy this two months going Their & Back. Mary Ann Had not time to Rite a Letter Sooner, we have so much Buisness in hand. But we will not neglect it the next time. John & his wife is well and ingoying good Health and Doing very well. We had Splendid weather up to this time. It will make things chaper Both hear and in Ireland. We have great Doings in Ireland about the Land. The[y] are Shooting Some of the Big goons [guns]. We had a Report this morning one Shot at. I Have nothing more this lime to tel you. Mary Ann is well. She has not forgot her Sister in america. No more at presant But Remains your afectionate Mother Sister & Brothers until Death |
