| Title: | Reynolds, Mary to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1882 |
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| ID | 4204 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/17 |
| Year | 1882 |
| Sender | Reynolds, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | head of household |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Salford, 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 | 634 |
| Genre | trade, politics, world exhibition, natural disaster, family, friends |
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| Transcript | 281 Regent Road Salford June 22nd 82 Dear Laurence & Mary Ann, We received youre Letter and we ware vary glad to Heare that you ware all well as the Departure of this Leaves us all in good Health, Thank God for all his blessings to us. Dear Laurence, Things are going on heare about the same. Trade is not So brisk but we Kept on pretty bussy until this Month Set in. We are Slack now and will be for a few Monthes. All the talk in the papers is about Ireland at presant. You will Have all the news in America as Soon as we get it. An other Landlord Shot, a Mr Burke. He was not a very good one. The[y] keep getting poped [popped] down. It is breaking there Hearts. The Grand Exabition that will be opened on the 15 of August, the goverment will try all the can to put a stop to it when none of the royal family would be Let open it. We can Do vary well without royalty in Ireland. The[y] never Done anything for Ireland but punis the people and Make Emigrants of them. There will be a Lot of people comming from America to See the Exabition. It will be a grand thing for Ireland. There would be no use of you thinking of comming. You are so fare away and it would be very Expencive. By all accounts trade is very good in America. There are a great Many going from Ireland to it. We had a Dreadfule Account in yester Days paper from it. A tornado in Missouri Kansas and iowa, 100 Lives Lost. We ware thinking that unkle John must have Suffered by it if we Dont heare from him. Still I will feele very unasy that any thing Should Happen to any of the family. America must be a Dreadful countrary to Live in, There are So Many great tornadoes in it. Dear Laurence, My Health is prety good, I canot complane. I am thinking to goe to See the old countrary this Somer if God Spars me and Mary Ann William and John are going first if ail is well. There are a great Many changes in Manchester Sine you went away. Daniel Manor came back from Austrlia on a visit. He is going back again. He is not Marled, James is Doing well. He has 4 children alive. Daniel Lead a very wild Life in the[y] place the call the bush. When you get this Letter write and Let us Know [how] the[y] are all in W i sco nsen and if John has got Maried yet. The[y] are doing a great buisness by all acotints. I Suppose that Mary Ann will be going up to Spend a few weeks with them Later on in the Somer. The farming buisness is Doing well in America. American cheese and bacon is up very High in this countrary [country], Sence this month came in we had nothing but rain nearley Every Day. It will be very bad for the farmers if it continues. It will Make botatoes very bad and Every Kind of previson Dear. Dear Laurence, I think I have nothing More to Say this time. John and his wife are well. As for his family the[y] are not very numers. Enclosed is a Little Sash for Little Mary. I hope she will Live to ware a many a one. I would Like to Know what you are going to put Willie to. He is getting a big boy now. I suppose he would Like the farming buisness. Right Soon and Send Me all particulars. We ali join in Sending our Kind Love to you Mary Ann and the children. Youre Affectionate Mother Sister and brothers until Death |
