| Title: | Greeves, Mary to O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne, 1851 |
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| ID | 6176 |
| Collection | The Transatlantic Letters of an Irish Quaker Family_1818-1877 [B. Jackson] |
| File | quaker/178 |
| Year | 1851 |
| Sender | Greeves, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | Quaker |
| Origin | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Collins, Lake Erie, NY, USA |
| Recipient | O'Brien (n. Greeves), Anne |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | cousins |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 212 |
| Genre | abstract of letter, family news |
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| Transcript | Phila 13th of 7 mo 1851 Mentions brother James ... Joseph [Sinton O'Brien] has a good wife ... Maria's having another fine boy [Fernando jun.] ... your cheese business is likely to do very well... Thomas D left him [James] the first of 3d mo ... he and his brother ... have 350 acres ... Henry's wife is better. 14th. Caroline was married on the 26th instant [?] to a gentleman whose father [Cambal Stuart] was formerly a professor in one of the most respectable colleges in Virginia but is now an inmate of a lunatic asylum ... his mother resides nearly opposite to brother James, with a widowed daughter ... very well off ... the husband of Caroline, Samuel C. Stuart, is an idle gentleman ... with some $1200 a year & a medical education. Sister Elizabeth [Greeves nee Lewis] was to leave today ... with some of her own family, Thomas has gone to one of the fishing shores ... James is at home ... Dear Aunt Molly how she holds out... John Nicholson died in 2 mo. Mary Beal [née Nicholson] resides No 53 Pine Street, New York... Affect thy cousin M.G. 15th I saw Charles Greeves last evening. Love to Thos & Jane. Morris' wife is not well. |
