| Title: | Robb, Alexander to Robb, Susanna, 1863 |
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| ID | 4567 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement [C.J. Houston & W.J. Smyth] |
| File | houston/5 |
| Year | 1863 |
| Sender | Robb, Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | labourer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada |
| Destination | Dundonald, Co. Down, Northern Ireland |
| Recipient | Robb, Susanna |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | siblings |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 475 |
| Genre | correspondence, weddings, everyday life |
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| Transcript | [15 February 1863, New Westminster, BC; to Susanna Robb] My dear little Sister, I don't know that this is a proper address for a young lady of seventeen but somehow I can hardly think of you as anybody else than the dear little girl who used to climb on my knee an comb my whiskers. Indeed I believe I would have continued in this state of blissful ignorance for I don't know how long had I not received your letter. The moment I read that my dream was dispelled for I at once knew that no little girl with short petticoats could write such a beautiful letter. Never make any excuses about letter writing any more for I declare to you that it is a very long time indeed since I received a letter either better written or better expressed. Remembering that I expect you to correspond with me regularly after this and I will never forgive you if you neglect to do so. You gave me also a great deal of news that was very interesting to me and which I could not expect Father to think about. You may be sure that I was glad to hear that Nellie and Lizzie were so well and so happy. May God bless and prosper them both. I think they have been blessed in choosing good kind husbands and that is everything for a woman more perhaps than even a good wife is to a man. For my part I hardly ever expect to be blessed by a wife but that can not lessen my preference for the married state in preference to any other and my greatest wish is that if I ever reach home I may see my brothers and sisters filling that station which God and nature has pointed out as the proper one for all human beings. You wish to know you dear little simpleton if I get my washing and mending done for me comfortably. Of course I do and my cooking into the bargain and all by the one person. I mean myself. Of course it is all well done especially the mending. 'Tis true the stitches are sometimes long and not very even but what is that where there are no woman to critisize ones appearances. As for baking I think I can beat any woman in the Parish of Dundonald giving us both the same materials. I mean flour and water. With these I can make bread that would make Barry Hughs hide his diminished head and blush for very shame. I find though that I am getting into a regular [ragmarsh] so I must draw to a close promising you to write you a decent letter the next time. So with Love to Mary, Andrew, Sam and Frank. I remain dear Sister Your affect brother Alexander Robb |
