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Dear Maggy my mother requisted [requested?]
me to write to you ['know' - stroked out] how
how contend [content?] she is in this country she feels
as well in health as ever she did in
Ireland she feels a great pleasure in
looking out of the window at my
father working every day all the displausure [displeasure?]
she has is the want of you andEliza Jane.
Dear Maggy this country is quite
different to the old country the people eats [eat?] and
drinks well hear [here?] for our part it takes 8 dozen
of eggs to do us in the week and thirty pounds
of beef and mutton 1lb of tea and 1 lb
of coffee 14 lb of sugar 4 lbor 5 lb of cheese
besides a great deal of vegitabels [vegetables?]which
is to [too?] numerious [numerous?] to mention. This is a
great change from the old country beside gathering up all to take out to
Omagh market to sell to make
money and we have as much money
to answer our demands hear [here?] with
out doing that.
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Aunt Eliza and the youngest son
was over on a visit for three weeks
she stopped untill [until?] after my grandfathers
death we had a large funeral
14 coaches womon [women?] hear [here?] goes as well
as men to funerals we have a great
deal of our old neighbours and friends
hear [here?] and a great deal of new friends
which is as kind to us as the old ones
every Sunday there is too [two?] or three families
of the old neighbours or friends
comes to visit us and my father and
my mother has often to go out to
visit and the [they?] must go out early in the
day or else the [they?] would not get away
my father works on the banker with
an old sweetheart of yours William
Laurifity Laferity. I suppose you
forget him by this time him and my
father thinks a great deal of one another
he will be in our house tonight.
Dear Sammy and Maggy we will drink
your healths and the babies to night [tonight?]
wishing yous [you?] a merry good glass to good by [goodbye?]
No more at present but remain your Truly Mary A
Ferguson
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Dear Mary Anne and lilly. I hope
yous [you?] will not place your mind in
any of the young men there in that
country this country makes a great
change in this country on the young
wemon [women?] they are splendid young men
hear [here?] when the [they?] quit their work and
dresses themselves you would not know
them the [they?] lookso stylish. Johnny wishes
me to remember him to little JohnAlexander
and yous [you?].
Dear Sammy and Maggy write
soon and dont forget for my mother
is quite uneasy excuse my bad
write [writing] M.A.F.
[Mary Anne Ferguson?]
