| Title: | Stewart, Frances to Waller, Maria, 1853 |
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| ID | 4759 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/41 |
| Year | 1853 |
| Sender | Stewart, Frances |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Douro Township, Newcsatle District, Upper Canada |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | Waller, Maria |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | niece-aunt |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 742 |
| Genre | news, family |
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| Transcript | 1853: December 23 To Aunt [], Ireland My own loved Aunt, I cannot send my letter to dear Bessy without adding a few lines to thank you for your dear affectionate letter which I received some weeks back. I am not nearly so quick in mind or body as I was before my last illness so that I don't get through half of my daily course of work or business, & now darkness is coming on rapidly while I am hurrying to be able to send this to the post tonight. How very kind you were to write to Charlie. I sent your letter to him. He prizes any letters from his kind Irish relations more than I can tell you & both he & George are always wishing for somereasonable excuse for writing to you in hopes of receiving an answer. Charles has the most wonderful love for his Fatherland & for his kindred there & lives in hopes of accompanying George sometime or other across the Atlantic to visit their relatives & see some of the wonders of the Old World. I am happy to say they are both well & as busy as possible. George seems to have his time fully occupied & fears he cannot join our home circle on Christmas day. I am now on the fidgets in expectation of having my poor wandering son Frank home tonight or tomorrow, as John started off just a month ago & found him at Xenia in Illinois, just the same warm hearted good natured fellow he ever was, but looking very thin, having but just recovered from a tedious illness. He was obliged to wait some days to settle up his accounts with his employer & I have not heard since but I am sure they will try to be home before Christmas day & if possible will try to bring George along with them. Poor Charlie will be the only absent one & he will I am sure feel it, but as he paid us a visit so lately he could not ask leave of absence again so soon. He is wonderfully anxious to know anything he can about my Father & has requested me to write & ask you & Aunt Waller to tell me everything you can, all particulars of his life & death, his college life & his age when he died, & if he had been promised a Bishoprick or not. I don't know why Charlie wants all this. He has repeatedly asked me as a great favour to procure for him any of my fathers papers, sermons or manuscripts which were to be had. But I never liked to ask for them. I suppose Catharine has them as I think Aunt Susan had them but of course Catharine would not like to part with them & much as I would value them I could hardly ask her for them but will be very thankful for any particulars you can give me about my father of whom I have always been too much in the dark. Many thanks dearest Aunt for the Sentinel which I receive pretty regularly, but not weekly. No numbers have missed tho' they come slowly. It is a very good paper & I like it very much. It is pleasant to have an Irish paper as now it is the only one I have except the Christian Examiner & Layman which both came from you, I believe, my own kind Aunt. Indeed it is too much for you to subscribe to the Sentinel on purpose for me. I think it w'd be better if you w'd allow James to give you the subscription from my money which I could afford now I am sure. But indeed I am most grateful to you for this & all you are always doing for me. I have a great deal more to say but can't try your eyes by crossing, so much cut short the thread of this hurried scratch. I hope soon to hear. I am always longing for letters but now am particularly anxious about dear Emma. So with every kind wish for a happy Christmas & New Year to you my own Aunty & all whom you & I both love. Believe me to remain your ever affect e child & niece, F. Stewart All here write in kind love to all their cousins & Aunts. 23rd Deer 1853. Auburn. |
