W.A Chambers to Dear Grandfather and Grandmother

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Document ID 201001014
Date 01-11-1858
Document Type Letters (Emigrants)
Archive Mellon Centre for Migration Studies
Citation W.A Chambers to Dear Grandfather and Grandmother;Dermot Lyttle; CMSIED 201001014
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November the 1st 1858

Dear Grandfather and Grandmother
I take my pen in hand
To write to you, for the
first time, how I would 
like to go to Ireland, to see
you. My mother has told
me, so much about you,
and uncles and aunts and
cousins, for I have so many
there. I think I would,
have great fun if I was
with them. I am going to
scool [school?] as yet, but my mother
thinks this is my mothers  
last winter at school,
as she expects to buy a
farm next Spring,
for I am big enough to
work a great deal,
I have been working and
saved 36 dollars
My mother has taken us here for a good

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while but she has lived so long
They do not like to part with
Mother ,but my mother thinks she would rather have a
home of her own now,
I think I have one of the best mother alive. Give my love to all
Uncles and aunts and cousins.
I wish some of my cousins would 
write me a letter Dear Grandfather 
Grandmother no more
at present but Remains your afectionatea [affectionate?] 
Grandson

W.A.Chambers