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Letter of Mary O'Sullivan Cotter from Meenygorman, Ireland, dated Sept. 15, 1860 to her brother Daniel Sullivan and daughter Anne Cotter, at Indianola, Texas.
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Meenygorman. June the 15th 1860

My dear Brother and Daughter:

I received your kind and welcome letter bearing date May the 7th which gave us great pleasure to hear you were all well and doing well, as the receipt of this letter leaves us at present thanks be to God.

My dear friends Words cannot or could not express the joy that I feel at your welfare. There is nothing in the world could give us more joy than to have God bestow that gift as to have the happiness of seeing you both once more in Ireland.

I always said you were a man to your word and I hope you will not go back of it.
Know we have a respectable house built at present thanks be to God and a pair of good horses for you to go wherever you please.

Your cousin is but sixteen or 16 years of age as you required to know that is Daniel Sullivan, Junior. The cause of my delay for not writing before was I asked and persevered in getting Daniel's age and they did not give it. I had to go myself at last and provide it. One of them at my place going to the 6th of June fair. I asked him and he did not provide it. He was his Uncle Daniel from Kerry.

We are glad to hear that Brother John and Denis are doing well. Mary and Kate are well and doing well.

I was speaking to Father Menchan in Kantuck. He told me he knew your Uncle and spoke a great deal of ye. He told me when he would return to America that he would have the honour of inviting you both to a dinner.

Mary and Kate Booth are very near their Lying in or near being delivered. Mary have two sons before now and Kate one son. Honora is grown very much. She is four feet nine inches with her Boots on.

The County is the most dreary and floodey. The inhabitants ever remember, the crops are comin on very slow.

I was speaking to Mrs. Hill that is Cornelius O'Connor's Sister. She told me she would shortly write to him. She is doing well. Sister Eliza will not grow any more. She is of good age and what she have no in hight she have it in breath.

John wrights . . . his own affair . . . brought Johanna Driscoll's son to her own house. He is a very good boy. Pappa and Manna are very strict. They speak of being twenty years younger if they had seen you both once more. And Poppa says he would not doubt Uncle Daniel for a manly and gentlemanly act. We shall never again delay a answer to your beloved letters.

The part or lot of land that was formerly held by the Flynn's but now in the possession of Roger Sullivan which you spoke of sometime ago is to be ejected at the next Seasons in the month of July but he was served the 13th of this month . . .

We are getting more wealthy every day thanks be to God. And there was never a gift bestowed on us that would give us more honour and credit than to have the pleasure of seeing you both once more.

Mary and Kate will shortly write. Mamma would be anxious to know Uncle John and Danis address. John, Eliza and Sister Honoria are in hopes of seeing Beloved Uncle and their most affectionate and loving Anny once more, traveling the fields of Meenygorman along with them.

I must conclude with best love and friendship and wishing you all Good Bye far away.
And my Blessing and the Blessing of God may attend you all especially my Dear Brother and not forgetting my Dear Child and Nephew.

Mary Sullivan

N.B. My love to you both. As also Eliza and Honorah to Dear Uncle and Darling Anny, Good Bye Dear Uncle but not forever. And also Sister. I shant forget her, her loving person I will bear in mind and that I shall until I die.

John Cotter

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