| Title: | Reynolds, William to Reynolds, Mary, 1891 |
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| ID | 4216 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/29 |
| Year | 1891 |
| Sender | Reynolds, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | linen trader |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
| Destination | Mohill, Co. Leitrim, Ireland |
| Recipient | Reynolds, Mary |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 407 |
| Genre | illness, family, business |
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| Transcript | 295 Stretford Road Manchester Oct 26th 91 Dear Cousin Mary, I received your Letter and We Ware all glad to hear from you and that you are getting on So well, considering the Summer was So bad for Farming. My mother has not been so well in health but taking her great age in to acount she keeps up wonderfull. Maryann had a vary bad illness this year. She was bedfast for a month. She got round pretty well and went over to Bray for a month and She is now mutch better and Stronger for the rest and the Sea air. She Caught Cold and got an attack of inflamation of the Bowels again. John & his wife are quite well and doing Well in thair business. I keep up vary well myself. I have not mutch to complain of as regards health. I have as mutch as I can manage in the business. I am getting on vary well. It keeps increasing and it requires a great deal of attention. I was in Bray for a fortnight. I stayed at Bray Head Hotel. It is a fine place and a grand place for peoples You Speak in your Letter about your Daughter. She would like to go LO business and like to get a Situation. Let me know in your next Letter her age if She is old enough to leve Home. We have 3 young Ladies at Stretford Road shop ware we live and this is our principle Shop. This would be the best place for her. If She would turn out suitable and live with us and be Smart, Maryann no doubt would make a business woman of her. We have a great meney customers at this shop and we do the business in the highest style, vary nessesary to carry the business on as thare are a great meney Dyers in Manchester. I received a Letter a few days ago from Laurences Son in Chicago. He is getting a vary smart young man. Thay are getting on well and all the talk at present is the wourlds Show to be hald thare in 1893. Remember John & myself to Mr McGushin. I am vary glad [he] is Still keeping in good health. All his family are good hearted. A great meney of the Farmers Dye vary young Supprising and living in shutch a beauty[ful] country. I remain your Effectionate Cousin William Reynolds |
