| Title: | M Dunbar, Grange to B Smyth, Co Tyrone |
|---|---|
| ID | 905 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Dunbar, Mary/41 |
| Year | 1901 |
| Sender | Dunbar, Mary |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Destination | Co. Tyrone, N.Ireland |
| Recipient | Smyth, Bella |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | friends |
| Source | Copyright Retained by Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge, Co Tyrone, castledamph@btinternet.com |
| Archive | Mr & Mrs J Smyth, Castledamph, Plumbridge. |
| Doc. No. | 501012 |
| Date | 17/1/1901 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LET |
| Log | Document added by LT, 13:01:2005. |
| Word Count | 957 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | [Front of envelope] Miss B Smyth Castledamph Plumbridge [Stamped] NEWTOWNSTEWART PM 10 0 JA 18 01 [Page 1] Grange 17.1.1901 My dear Bella your very kind & welcome letter received, for which I return you many thanks. I was delighted to get it you do always write so nicely & give me so much news of the doings of the people around. It was just too bad being disappointed in not seeing you at Xmas, but next moon-light we expect Minnie up again so that wont be long. [Page 2] But as for the pleasure you say you have in coming why, you have only your share in that for I can tell you we are always delighted to have you one & all & we will look forward to a good day & night together soon. Minnie's holidays came to a quick end we never found the week pass one thing & another & Xmas day was so delightfully wet with us you could scarcelly [scarcely?] put your head out. We had Annie up from town & 4 of the [Deerpark?] ones & they stopped with us all night. So we had a right jolly time of it. [Page 3] I seen [sic] the account of the big lecture in Glenelly [Gleneely or Gleneeny?] in the Witness of last wk [week?] What is coming over his Reverence at last I am sure you would have a good noise with some of them when did Tom find his voice to sing in public I believe it was T. [Tommy?] Smyth instead of J.C. such a shame giving the credit to an undeserving man if I were John I would put it in the paper myself next time. I am so glad Mary is likeing [liking?] her business so [Page 4]- well tell her to try & beat the other young lady I am sure she is a great Swell, by the Campbells talk how is it that James or the Sister never sings nor recites in any of the meetings. Is [T.?] M Cullogh [McCullagh?] [sparking?] with the boys already My dear I will imagine you & I are forgotten if we dont hurry up. I am not afraid of Liza as long as Andy McCleeland [McClelland?] remains in single blessedness still they tell me that I will be an old maid I am so particular about things (self praise) & if I remember right Liza had the disease to [too?]. So we must be careful & watch & you know the other. [Page 5] My dear I remember the time I had plastering & whitewashing you [your?] old walls & hobs. My heart was broken my if I was there now I would be different I think you remember Charlie Dunbar our Scotch friend we had his photo framed in Eden Well that young fellow we hear is dying & we are all so sorry I had a letter from another friend of mine & she wanted me to write to him but I could not Mary always wrote & he had a fashion of saying for [fun?] (my time is coming very soon soon now) so I doubt it will come true this time I hope God will fit & prepare him for the change before he calls him Home it is so sad dying so young dear Bella I often think we are not half good enough & we dont fully appreciate our blessings for they are many. Poor Tilda I thought of her at Xmas time & I never heard if she got my letter you might ask her sometime it was only two wee hankerchiefs I thought they would be nicer than a silly Xmas card at such a time for her Give Jamie & her my kind regards. & remember me to all old friends who may inquire. Now you will be glad to hear we are building a manse for our Minister we were paying house rent all along so we thought wiser to build a manse & we have got over 5 00£ from our [Page 6] own congregation besides what we will get from outsiders isnt that good Indeed Mr Morton deserves it he is so good and kind. The Orange Hall is not completed yet but I think soon will I think it will be opened first on a Sunday then they will have a big night. So I heard Jerry say but it is not just settled how [&?] when yet till next week or so. Indeed it looks very nice inside & outside. Now I believe I have given you a lot of news & I will be counting the days till I get equally as long an epistle from you with all the latest plum [Plumbridge?] news. give Mothers kind regards to your mother & father & everybody's love to everybody & a double share from me to you not [Page 7] forgetting Willie John You must bring him down with you I long to see him at the step dance I hear no word of our Mary getting married but I think she could & [will?] if she liked but she is better Single lest I want her so. anyhow. Now I was nearly forgetting to tell you that I was surprised when Jerry was telling me he met Willie with the flax why did he not come up such a mean thing never mind him. Jerry sold his & got 6 2s & 6d per cwt. wasn't that good he got the [ticket?] last night & will deliver D.V. [God Willing?] on Tuesday & has splendid weight over 8 cwt to the bag but we had better last year if I mind right I will write no more to you at present hoping to hear soon I am your loving friend M [Maggie?] Dunbar excuse haste & mistakes Johnnie is waiting to post it Transcribed by Greg Floyd |
