Letter from Ellie [Ellen?] OConnor, Montreal to Bella McSorley [Mrs John Conroy?], Co Tyrone

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Document ID 0712009
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Document Type Letters (Emigrants)
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Citation Letter from Ellie [Ellen?] OConnor, Montreal to Bella McSorley [Mrs John Conroy?], Co Tyrone;Annie and Pat McClean; CMSIED 0712009
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Letter 5
Side 1

(Tell Johnny
that Im [Im?] just 
the same the [they?]
could not
make a yankee
of me only
I got a little 
thiner [thinner?]
E OConnor) written sideways at top of letter
Montreal
775 St Antoine
July 10th  11 [1911?]


My Dear Bella
          Just a few lines
hoping to find your mother
Johny & yourself quite well.
I suppose you will wonder
to hear from me as I think
everybody over there has forgot
all about us  I know when
 you get of writing it is terrible
to sit down to write to any one [anyone?]
But I have not forgotton [forgotten?] yous [you?]
all the same. I dont [don't?] think we
 would ever forget Clougherney [Clogherny?]
.if we were a hundred years 
away from it But I hope it 
Wont [won't?] be so long to I get back to the 
                                  oat bread again

Side 2


Teresa often makes me laugh  when she 
takes a notion of acting  Patrick
Mc Killion or McKeagney
You would just think she was at
 home again The weather here
is so hot It is just killing I 
often say I hope this weather 
Wont [won't?] go near Ireland. as It would
kill people to work out Teresa
& I still works [work?] in the same office
The [they]?] call me nothing But
Erin go Bragh We both like
it well. We often say We
are going home to Ireland
But they are so well used
to us now the [they?] dont [don't?] want us
to leave atall [at all?] but that wont [wont?]
keep us long. When we take 
       the notion about Clougherney [Clogherny?]

Side 3

If this great heat was over I must start
& write more or the neighbours will forget
 about us  I suppose when we go home the [they?]
will think I have been away for over
half a century If I let them forget me
I hope Ma.& Da is well also Minnie
Aggie & Joe I am thinking long for
a letter from them  We hear from
John often he is  well & doing well
Teresa is gone out now she will be
sorry she is not here to put something in 
       this letter  But when I take a notion
                          of writing I like to finish
                                                    It & & post it

Side 4

as I often write letters & forget to
post them now be  sure  & 
write me a long letter soon &
tell me all about home and
if Da & ma runs over the
way they used to go.  Da
used to say he would not
be right sitting Down till
There there would be a string 
after him with the melodian [melodeon?]
Well I hope them good times
will all come back again
before long  Tell your Mother
if I dont write often I just 
mind all her goodness to us
as well as the day I left home
& Johny as well If our prayers
are heard we often pray for 
yous [you?] all & I hope god [God?] will
spare us all to meet in Clougherney [Clogherny?]
again I think Ill [I'll?] say Goodby [goodbye?]
for now & Remain as ever yours  Ellie OConnor


Transcribed by NualaMacSherry. Checked by CMcIvor.