| Title: | O'Donnell, Annie to Phelan, James, 1901 |
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| ID | 6246 |
| Collection | Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnel to James P.Phelan [A. O'Donnell] |
| File | fondestan/9 |
| Year | 1901 |
| Sender | O'Donnell, Annie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | children's maid |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Pittsburgh, Penn., USA |
| Destination | Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| Recipient | Phelan, James |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 348 |
| Genre | Xmas present, friends, Xmas |
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| Transcript | [Pittsburgh, Pa.] Monday Dec 23rd, 1901 My dear Jim, On Saturday last your nice gift reached me, and I must say it was most acceptable.1 You are still the same kind thoughtful fellow that I knew some time ago. Ellen was almost was as pleased as if she herself got it. You know she is my dearest friend, and I will not be wrong in saying that she loves me more than anyone else outside Mother, and there is nothing that pleases her more than to see me happy. We often sit in our room and talk of you, and since your picture has taken a prominent place on my table, we never miss a day that we don't talk of you. Of course I come in for my share of teasing, but it takes no effect as I can stand quite a little bit of it. Ellen has a soft spot for you and expressed a great desire of seeing you when I read your letter to her. As you say, we are not so very far apart, and you know there is one here who would give anything to see you, so let us hope that one day you will condescend to visit our Smoky City. Of course I shall leave that for you to decide. You know best. I promise you to wait patiently for your picture, but I hate to see you bothering so much trying to suit such a fastidious creature. From all appearances today, we will have a green Xmas. It is not too bad. We are planning very hard here trying to get to early Mass on Xmas morning as it is quite hard to get away from the children. We both sleep with them. Our lady is treating us to tickets for the Theatre to see 'Ben Hur'2 the night after Christmas, (I wish you were with us; how different it would be.) Now Jim, I must finish as we are very busy preparing for 'Santa Claus' So with loving and best wishes for all I remain Annie Write Soon |
