| Title: | Stewart, Frances to Stewart, Harriet, 1866 |
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| ID | 4774 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/56 |
| Year | 1866 |
| Sender | Stewart, Frances |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Douro Township, Newcsatle District, Upper Canada |
| Destination | Acton, Ontario, Canada |
| Recipient | Stewart, Harriet |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | grandmother-granddaughter |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 362 |
| Genre | birthday |
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| Transcript | 1866: September 11 To Harriet Stewart [Acton, Ontario] 11th. Sept. 1866 My very dear Harriette I wish to show you that I think of you today and one of the best means of doing so is to write you a letter. I very constantly think of you and of Lena and little baby who I suppose is now quite a large baby but I hardly know what name she goes by as I only mentioned Nora by way of a joke. I know Mamma intended to call her Eleanor which is a very pretty name. I hope in some time you will be able to write to me. I thought of you dear Harriette early this morning & remembered that it is your Birthday and I hope you have been very happy today & that you may have a great many happy Birthdays encreasing each year in wisdom [&] knowledge of the best kind as well as in health & strength of body. I am sorry that I have no nice present to send you but at this distance it is difficult to send parcels to our friends & besides I am sure you have all sorts of nice things, much nicer & better than anything I could buy in Peterboro. But my dear child I have a large portion of love in my heart to send you if you could only see it or feel it as I feel it, but this is one of much that we must believe without seeing or feeling, as I dare say your dear Mamma has explained to you already & she will explain this to you in the same way if you don't understand it. I have not been very well lately & my hand is weak & shakes very much so that I cannot write as neatly as I should like to do when I write to you but I cannot help it & so dear child you must Believe me to be your Ever affectionate Grandmamma F. Stewart Kiss Mamma & Papa & your sisters for me & ask Mamma to give you a warm embrace & a good kiss for me. |
