Part of the Margaret Graham Browne Collection
William Mary J Johnson
direct your leter [letter?]
Mrs William R Johnston
Culver P.O.
Wells Station
Bay County
Michigan
U.S.A.
this is Mary J (sic) address on the other side
the reasin [reason?] I sent for the money I was
told you would not come home so long as
you got earning I thought it so hard that I
should be punised [punished?] here and you in america
so I hope youll keep your [word?] this time
good bey [bye?] write soon
(* The owner of these documents has informed us that this
townland is spelt "Rathneeny" and that the older spellings
of it are "Roniney" or "Raneny". In the "Index To The
Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland"
the spelling is "Raneany")