Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840 by James Hargrave

Author:James Hargrave [Hargrave, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2009-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

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YF 13 July 1833

Miss Jane Hargrave

My Dear Jane

I have read several times with great pleasure your kind and well written letter of 17th March last, and have amid the crush of business which surrounds me at present got hold of a leisure minute to write you a few lines in reply. I regret to hear of the misfortune my poor cousin Mary11 has met with last winter in the loss of her husband, and commiserate the helpless state she must now be in left as she is with 4 young children. These, my dear Sister, are some of the Miseries attendant on that state of life which neither you nor I have yet experienced, and which should make us contented with the station in life it is our fortune to occupy. Our own family has certainly been wonderfully preserved amid the mortality so general in Canada last season, and I trust we are all grateful to the Almighty for His keeping us a happy & undiminished family while so many around you have fallen under the Scourge.

I had a long letter from our uncle Jas Mitchel last year at which time they were all well. They mention having had one from our parents sometime before they wrote me and had written them again in return; they also add a great deal of news about Lindean &c but in order to give you the whole information it contains I shall enclose it under Cover with my letters to you. What you say regarding Richardson I shall mention to them in my letter of this fall.

I am happy to hear that poor widow Struthers gets on so well deprived as she now is of such a portion of the numerous family I left her surrounded with. Remember me in the kindest manner to her & to Miss Margt, who I certainly expected to have changed her name long ago. I must say it shows little discernment in the young fellows around her to allow so spry a girl run so long the risk of leading apes. Should both she & you be not more expeditious than you have yet shown yourselves I may yet have an opportunity of dancing an indian Dance at both your weddings.

I have scarcely a word to say about myself. I am so exactly employed as formerly, that I am writing you in the same room & at the same desk, as where I have written you for these last Six years. My health is good, and I am as happy as a bluff batchelor without family or incumbrance can be.

I can add little more my Dear Sister but that I am

Your Affectionate Brother

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