| Title: | Reynolds, William to Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann, 1893 |
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| ID | 4221 |
| Collection | The Reynolds Letters. An Irish Emigrant Family in Late Victorian Manchester [L.W. McBride] |
| File | reynolds/34 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Reynolds, William |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | linen trader |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Manchester, England |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Recipient | Reynolds, Laurence and Mary Ann |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | brothers |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 241 |
| Genre | possible emigration |
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| Transcript | 1 Dudley Place Old Trafford Manchester Dec 27/93 Dear Laurence and Maryann, I sent you a Letter about 6 weeks ago and I have not received an ans war. I expacted one. We have considered about James William comming to Manchester. And we would be all pleased If he Should come as Soon as you think the wheather is fit for travailing. Thare is a home here for him. My Mother and Maryann are vary wishfull he Should come. As for my Self I will do all I can for him. He has had a good aducation and he will be a great assistence to me. I have a good deal of writing and correspondence and he can assist me to manage the business. I know you and Maryann will not like to part with him but you will have the Satisfaction of knowing he is comming to a home with his grandmother aunt and uncle. I hope you are all ingoying good health. We are all quite well except Maryann. She has been vary bad with bronchitis but She is mutch better at presant. The coal Strike is Settled over here and I hope 1894 will be mutch more prosperous than 1893. I hope you have had a vary happy Crismass and I wish you and Maryann and all the family a happy and prosperious new year. I remain your effectionate Brother William Reynolds Inclosed I send you my likeness. |
