| Title: | Stewart, Frances to unknown addressee, 1859 |
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| ID | 4766 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/48 |
| Year | 1859 |
| Sender | Stewart, Frances |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | unknown |
| Destination | Ireland |
| Recipient | unknown addressee |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | unknown |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 319 |
| Genre | news, family |
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| Transcript | [1859: July 18] (Fragment): Addressee unknown, Ireland My dear Son has returned to us very happy to see all his own kin again & very ready to tell me all he can about so many I so dearly love. He expresses regret at not having been able to see more of his Meath friends but having treated poor Harriet so unceremoniously on her first kind invitation, he could not hurry away from her sooner than was absolutely necessary. I suppose you have heard of the cause of his prolonged visit at Southwold where at first he only intended spending a few days, but Master Cupid flew in & cast a net over him which detained him & I suppose will draw him there again as soon as he can make arrangements for settling down as a married man, & the prospect of visiting Europe next year (DV) gives him hopes of seeing many friends who he could not go in the meantime. I have heard a great deal about Miss Ellis from some of her friends who are in this country & are greatly attached to her. And I can only feel astonished at Charles's extraordinary good fortune in having gained the affection so soon of a person of truly excellent sound sense & prudence. I can only account for its having proceeded from her discernment in judging of his character from his countenance & his quiet unpressuring manner which I rejoice to find is perfectly unchanged, notwithstanding the very partial & distinguished attention paid him everywhere & by all he met & especially his relations & connexions as well as some perfect strangers. I was afraid he w'd have been a little elevated in his own estimation but I must say he is exactly the same dear old 'Charlie' except he is grown stouter & broader in his shoulders than he was & looks quite a year older. |
