| Title: | Stewart, Frances to Edgeworth, Honora, 1822 |
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| ID | 4722 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/4 |
| Year | 1822 |
| Sender | Stewart, Frances |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Allenstown, Co. Meath, Ireland |
| Destination | Edgeworthstown, Ireland |
| Recipient | Edgeworth, Honora |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 268 |
| Genre | emigration |
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| Transcript | 1822: April 269 To Honora Edgeworth, Edgeworthstown, Ireland 26 April 1822 My very dear Honora We are now emerged in to the bustle of preparations for our departure which probably will take place about the middle of May. And you may suppose that all our ideas are in requisition to know what will be the most necessary provisions as to food & clothing for so large a party & during so long a passage, for I may call our progress up the river & Lake Ontario a part of our voyage or passage. We have 19 individuals belonging to our own party besides a family of six who are going along with us. This is the family of a sort of groom & labourer who has lived with Mr. Reid for above twenty years & who has actually saved enough of money within the last two years to enable him now to accompany his dear Master without being one Shilling expense to us. His wife was housemaid here & they have 4 fine little children. He says he could not live here after his master had left this place. Our party consists of 4 parents 12 children & 3 servants, one a young man & two girls, for women servants, grown up, are very useless & unprofitable in America as they require immense wages & do little or no work.... And now my dear Honora I must beg you will give my most affectionate love to all my dear friends, at home & abroad, if they care for me, & ever believe me your affect' friend F. Stewart. |
