Title: | From Elizabeth [?] Warrenpoint to Joe [?] [U.S.A.?] |
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ID | 989 |
Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
File | Elizabeth/83 |
Year | 1847 |
Sender | Elizabeth |
Sender Gender | female |
Sender Occupation | unknown |
Sender Religion | unknown |
Origin | Warrenpoint, Co. Down, N.Ireland |
Destination | USA |
Recipient | Joe |
Recipient Gender | male |
Relationship | cousins |
Source | D 2794/1/2/12: Presented by H. H. Montgomery, 4 Kensington Gardens, Belfast 5. |
Archive | The Public Record Office, Northern Ireland |
Doc. No. | 9103056 |
Date | 30/11/1847 |
Partial Date | |
Doc. Type | LET |
Log | Action By Date Document added by B.W. 04:01:1993 |
Word Count | 399 |
Genre | |
Note | |
Transcript | To: From: Warrenpoint [...?] 30th Dear Cousin Joe I need scarcely tell you I was just happy to find that the promise made this side the Atlantic was not forgotten ere you reached Philadephia. I know my deficiency as a correspondent & I know too that you are rather an adept in this sort of intercourse and something of a critic besides Knowing all this I feel backward enough in writing still I suppose a line from your Cousin woul [would?] be an acceptable as John will write he will give you a full account of himself & as far as he knows Home News. I came here some two weeks after you & poor William Left us, There was no satisfaction atal [at all?] in your way of parting You might have given a parting Kiss not that I would have expected any and said farewell. you would have got over it but would it not have been far more gratifying to think of them your way. However this cannot be remedied now we will say it was not said of affection but just Joe's old ways. I congratulate you on the good situation that you have, How I wish we were settled with or near you I feel quite unwilling that he should go to Cincinnati I hope he may be guided for the best. I write often to him John & I knew nothing of his seve [severe?] illness until we saw his own letter #PAGE 2 this mail. A change has come over your feelings since you left Irish ground all seemed dark to you then. I think you are reconciled pretty soon to the change & I doubt not ere long you shall have a home a Boosom [Bosom?] friend the rather for an Irish girl will are gone since [----?] we will often think of Both The very last day that I was in the shop. You were weighing the sugar. You have forgotten all about it many a time that day you said "Look what makes you so dull," all this was mind enough. But the next time that I saw you I did not think so. I felt quite huffed at your coldness. Was it timidity in regard to the coup [-----?]. this is the most friendly construction I shall always be very glad to hear from you love to Cousin [-------?] & Cousin Joe Your affectionate Elizabeth |