| Title: | Earl of Ava to His Mother Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava |
|---|---|
| ID | 952 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Earl of Ava, Archibald/34 |
| Year | 1893 |
| Sender | Archibald, Earl of Ava |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | army officer |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Montana, USA |
| Destination | Europe? |
| Recipient | Hariot, Marchioness of Dufferin & Ava |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | son-mother |
| Source | D/1231/G/2/106: Deposited by Lady Hermione Blackwood |
| Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
| Doc. No. | 9808496 |
| Date | 26/08/1893 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 19:08:98. |
| Word Count | 544 |
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| Transcript | 26th August [1893] Thompson Falls V.P.R.A. Montana. My dear Mama I start the day after tomorrow with my outfit. We have changed the route & instead of going north near British Columbia cross the Hathead Indian Reservation east of this & get into the main range of the Rockies. It is over a hundred miles from this & will take a week to get there but I shall have a clear 5 or 6 weeks to shoot in. I am lucky in having through Mr Theodore Roosevelts help got a first rate hunter who has been hunting all his life & is a regular "old timer". It is difficult to get a good man & what I like about this one is that he is fond of the game him self & does not only hunt for the dollars. Indians have been going through this place the last couple of days the ugliest [------?] people I ere saw. This week has been a bit severe for me & I shall be glad to start. Luckily there is a good big river here & I swim every day. Also shoot matches with every [---?] in the town at [----?] & can beat them all with one of their small rifles. Every man here knows how to use a gun & most of them go out after the game round the place. I am taking the small rifle with me to shoot at grouse with. The latter are very tame & are shoot at their head always & they make good eating. I have also got half a dozen good books & the last batch of English papers to read. Lord Clarendon I hear has been out in this district before but I expect they mean Ld [Lord?] Caledon who lives in Ireland dont they? I am so glad Father got to [----?] after all. It must have been a good season there & it is a pity he did not get more. I enclose two amusing paragraphs which please keep. The one about Ted is from an English paper. One article in a Northwestern paper here said I was a strong ["Nationalist?"] and that I had said that "As soon as Home Rule was disposed of the Irish would join the Opposition & go agst. [against?] the govt's [government's?] financial policy & that [--?] D. was a strong [Nationalist?] himself". All imagination of the writer. I am very glad to hear Hermie & the others enjoyed their trip & were "too happy" Will you tell Ronald I told [-----?] to send him œ5 for [-------?] & that if they sent all my balance to Drexal & Morgan as is possible they will send it 1st Oct. But I think they sent it to him. I wrote to Mr Dixon & told him I was going to Canada in November. I hope the Aberdeen's will ask me to stay at Govt. [Government?] House a little. Please tell the family not to write till about the 20th October. I heard from Blanc who wants to [embr----?] son [---?] Archibald & says that "Le terrible Shiplay ne se a plus la pour nous enlever la Digne cigarette" I remain my dear Mama Yours affecty [affectionately?] Archie |
