| Title: | James A. Smyth, Ontario, J J Smyth, Castledamph. |
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| ID | 6703 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Smyth, James Alexander/23B |
| Year | 1897 |
| Sender | Smyth, James Alexander |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | student |
| Sender Religion | Protestant (Methodist) |
| Origin | Essex Co., Ontario, Canada |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | |
| Recipient Gender | male-female |
| Relationship | |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, Castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth |
| Doc. No. | 604041 |
| Date | 26/06/1897 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | |
| Word Count | 271 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | [Front of Envelope] Mr. John Jas Smyth Castledamph Plumbridge Co. Tyrone Ireland [Stamped] ESSEX JU26 97 ONT. [Written above address] Mr. John Jas Smyth [Back of Envelope] John James Smyth Castledamph John James Smyth [ ?] Castledamph [Stamped] WINDSOR PM JU26 97 [Letter 1] [Page 1] Essex, Ont June 26th 97 Dear Father, Mother, Sisters, & Brothers In answer to your letter which I received a week ago to-day I was much pleased to hear that you people were well and that you were going to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. There was a good time I believe in every part of the World. It was celebrated at Windsor and different parts of this Country but I did not go to any of the places. I notice in the papers here that the [Dillonites?] [etc?] had a counter demonstration at Dublin and that they broke windows and had a general blow out Several arrests were made,' I expect to see all this news in some of your Irish papers, [Page 2] I suppose you Unionists had a an [sic] opposite view of Victoria's long reign. I notice in our paper that [Laurier?] and the canadian soldiers are attracting considerable attention over there I also see that Stewart the Canadian win [sic] the prize in bayonet contest as [Islington?] defeating the British regulars. I suppose preparations for the coming twelfth are the order of the day [now?] as this being the Jubilee I expect that you will have a big day. I am not thinking much about it, however I expect to go to Ridgetown with the rest [whether?] I do well in my examinations or not. I am reviewing as much as possible now and during the next few days. We will attend School until wednesday [Page 3] although reviewing will be the principle object. The entrance Examination and Public School leaving take place on Monday & in following days and they will occupy two rooms in High School and we will have the remainder Our Commercial Exam starts after that and I will have it over this day week and then the primary on Monday and finishes this day fortnight. We are all a little anxious concerning the examination and many of us are afraid that we will not be successful. If I fail I don’t know how I will take it but I will have to put up with it one way or the other. I am doing all I can at reviewing so as to be fresh but I have so many subjects that it is almost impossible to review them all. It may be possible that I will write about this day week and let you know the result of the 4 [Page 4] Commercial exams. I expect I will almost be able to tell pretty close on the number of Marks I made and so [form?] a pretty close opinion of my result, I just thought I would hurry through this letter and let you know that I am well and all the others. I am going down this evening to Woodslee and will come back again tomorrow evening. If Tommy Hay comes over I would like he would send me one of his pictures (Military Ones) if he has any. I am sorry to hear that Uncle Chas [Charles?] is not feeling well I hope he will get all right in a short time, I think this is all I have to say at present and it only took me a few minutes to say this so Good Bye to all Best wishes to James A Smyth Band Boys and Orangemen. I expect some evening they will be playing and I will be puzzling my brains to think of enough for an examination paper. |
