| Title: | O'Donnell, Annie to Phelan, James, 1904 |
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| ID | 6303 |
| Collection | Your Fondest Annie: Letters from Annie O'Donnel to James P.Phelan [A. O'Donnell] |
| File | fondestan/66 |
| Year | 1904 |
| Sender | O'Donnell, Annie |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | children's maid |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Miami, Florida, USA |
| Destination | Philadelphia, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | Phelan, James |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | friends |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 623 |
| Genre | friends, correspondence, holiday |
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| Transcript | [Hotel Royal Palm stationery Biscayne Bay, Florida] April 1, 1904 My dear Jim, We are going back to Miami today which will be the last time till we go there two weeks from today to go home, so this will really be my last letter unless any other plan turns up when Mr. Mellon comes tomorrow. We called at Miami on Wednesday last and wasn't I glad to get your nice letter. Maybe I didn't think you were nice not to disappoint me. I mailed you a letter on Monday and hope you got it all right. I suppose you are still at the Walton and wonder if you will be there long now. You see we will soon be home, and isn't that fine. I had a nice letter from the old man [Jim's uncle Joseph Brennan], and I am sorry to see that Pollie has been real sick. He is in Pittsburgh again and the family will be there soon. I wonder where they will locate. I hope it will be somewhere in the East End as I am sure you will stay with them. I had a letter from Mrs. Walters some time ago and she said John Brennan was married. I thought probably she was joking me so I never wrote you anything about it as she writes the jolliest letters. You tell me if it is so. I want you to go out and see the girls as soon as you have an opportunity after you come back and call at my sisters too. Drop them a line just a day or so before going in as they retire too early, and I would like you to see the Lydon children. If you write to them just two days ahead, as I do, they will make you some nice raisin bread that I love, and think of me when you are having a cup of tea with them. You will find them real hard to make friends with but wait till I come home. You will not have so hard a time. Well, we are having a nice time here just out on the beach and fishing, but we are fearfully sunburned. My face today is so very red and sore. We go to bed early at night but are up just at day break in the morning. It is nice for us. We are having a good rest anyhow. I don't wonder you are not in love with Philadephia, for I never was. I am glad you like Pittsburgh better. I believe you will make that your home yet. Don't forget to call on Mrs. Connor. She will be glad to see you. I am sorry she has not been well either. It has been a cold winter and the poor have suffered much. It is well we escaped it, but you know I don't mind the cold at all. Well now, dear Jim, I must finish and don't forget to write on the days I said in my last letter, and be sure to telephone Mrs. Walters about our coming. I wonder where we will meet. It will be just where you say. Now I will give you my sister's address: Mrs. P. Lyons Rear of 1225 Liberty Street Pittsburgh, Pa You write to her, and if you would like to see them before I go home, it would be real nice as they would like to know you a little more so as to tease me some. As yet, they don't know what to do. Now, good-bye, Jim, and won't I be the happiest thing to leave here for home, dear house with you to see me. I am as ever Your fondest Annie xxxx |
