| Title: | Stewart, Frances to Brown, Frances, 1871 |
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| ID | 4804 |
| Collection | Revisiting Our Forest Home, The immigrant letters of Frances Stewart [J. L. Aoki] |
| File | stewart/86 |
| Year | 1871 |
| Sender | Stewart, Frances |
| Sender Gender | female |
| Sender Occupation | housewife |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Douro Township, Newcsatle District, Upper Canada |
| Destination | Sunnyside, Canada |
| Recipient | Brown, Frances |
| Recipient Gender | female |
| Relationship | grandmother-granddaughter |
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| Log | unknown |
| Word Count | 285 |
| Genre | family life |
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| Transcript | 1871: October 1 To Frances S. Brown, Sunnyside 1st Oct'r 1871 My dear Fan I think I will send you a nice little bit of poetry which I think may be considered & called a hymn which I have copied out of The Sunday at home, and I took a notion you would like it tho' it looks rather long. I like to have some thing to write on Sunday so I also send you a scrap if you intend reading out scraps in the evening. I will (DV) give it to you on your return from church. Is Jessie to come home with you. I think she must be getting homesick, she so seldom likes being long from home. Do you know I am awfully sleepy. I have nodded two or three times over this. The house here is always so quiet & still. Even Dunbar never makes any noise like what other boys do & dear wee Rolley is too far off to hear the noise. Oh dear I was asleep just when I was writing the words "to hear" in the 4th line back & I dreamed that someone said "Rolley has gone to Washington to see the President! & to be examined for the new situation" & I was just thinking why he went off so far & did not come to say Goodbye when I awoke, & now I will stop as I have been asleep again. Goodbye dear, Ever your own Grannie. Oh see all the wee marks where my pen wandered to & had a wee dance to itself tho' it is Sunday. Goodbye dear. I am your own fond G once more & for ever, F Stewart |
