| Title: | unknown to a friend, 1903 |
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| ID | 6476 |
| Collection | New Brunswick Letters |
| File | newbrunswick/111 |
| Year | 1903 |
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| Sender Occupation | unknown |
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| Origin | Lower Derby, N.Brunswick, Canada |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | a friend |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | friends |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 424 |
| Genre | Xmas |
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| Transcript | Lower Derby, N.B. Jan. 1, 1903. Dear Friend: I received your letter Christmas morning, and was glad to hear you were both well and enjoying yourselves. How did You spend Christmas in Yankee land-? I came home Christmas Eve, there was lovely going on the ice, not a bit of snow on the road we had a green Christmas All day long we only saw two or three wagons on the road. We had a storm since, not a big one, but enough to make good sleighing. Amos, Rine and I drove to town yesterday. Amos came home Christmas Eve too. Silas came with him as far as Houlton, he stayed there at an aunt’s. We had a letter from him this morning, he said he had a fine time Christmas. He won’t come home at all now this winter. Amos will likely go away again in a little while I saw Richard Chiston’s wife at the Union the day I came up. There was a young man there, just home from the States, who wished her much happiness and called her Lill, so I know it must be her. I have not met her yet. Everything was the same as usual in Bartibogue when I came up. Mr Currie was down on his ice boat one day, he was up to the shop, he bid me good-bye and said he was going to Baltimore about a week after Christmas. I suppose he is off by this time He was likely around inspecting all the schools, he still had the cold, the peppermints did not cure it. I am up a week to-day I’ll perhaps be up a little over another week may be two. I am going to take the good of it The old lady is tending shop. I suppose she don’t care how long I stay. I suppose you had all the news long before this. Mr Mrs Ray and all the rest were well. They moved up to the new camp a day or two before I left. It will be quite lonely in Bartibogue this winter. The counting stick came to grief the other day. It has been idle this long time, I had no wool to work with, did not get a chance to get any, so I brought it up home, and some one slammed the lid of my trunk on it and cracked it, but I tied it up, and got to work again. The girls told me they saw you in New- ------[material missing]----- |
