| Title: | O'Donnell, Annie to Phelan, James, 1901 |
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| ID | 6244 |
| Collection | Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnel to James P.Phelan [A. O'Donnell] |
| File | fondestan/7 |
| Year | 1901 |
| Sender | O'Donnell, Annie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | children's maid |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | New York, NY, USA |
| Destination | Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| Recipient | Phelan, James |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 481 |
| Genre | work, news |
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| Transcript | New York Tuesday night My dear Jim, I have been waiting patiently since I got your last letter for your picture which however has not yet arrived. I left strict orders for my mail to be forwarded before leaving Pittsburgh on Friday last. We are all here on a visit of four weeks at the same place where we spent three months of last year. We are on the West Side quite a long way from the large downtown stores. Yes, more than an hour's ride. We have not as yet seen anything beyond the ordinary but are planning to get a day off soon to see the stores. Last year we had but two children to care for but this time we have one extra, so that is harder to get away from them. I am just trying my very hardest to get an opportunity of seeing your cousins now that I am here, but Brooklyn is such a way from here I don't know if I can. Anyhow, Jim, even if I am inconvenienced, I will do my utmost to see them. When I can not see you, the very least I may do is to see some one belonging to you. Well Jim, how did you ever get that nice poetry you sent me? I am sure if you had it made to order, you could not have suited my case better. It was the most appropriate piece I ever got. Those few pieces I sent you with the magazine (which I hope you received all right) were written for me by a dear friend some nights before meeting you. The marked story I wanted you to read. I get the magazines monthly since I came to live with Ellen. Let me know if you are fond of reading, Jim, and what is your favourite kind? We had a very pleasant Hallow eve playing several tricks. Do you mind the Hallow eve we spent together, it looked like any other didn't it?1 We did not even have apples. Still, we appeared happy, but you see riches don't make happiness. Well, Jim, do write soon and in the mean time, I hope your picture will come as I am most anxious to see if I can even then form an idea of that boy who was the life of the Adria. It seems too bad that time has such an effect on memory as well as on several other things. If we had but a small part of that great factor of past time given us, what we would have done and undone? We ourselves only can tell. It is now getting quite late so I must finish and ask you once again to write me very soon to the enclosed address4 And I now remain as ever with love, Annie P.S. Be sure and remember me to all. |
