From: May Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 4 Bayard St., Allston, Mass, U.S.A.
My dear Frank,
A few lines to wish ye all a Happy Xmas and a Bright and Prosperous New Year. I wrote to your wife 9 or 10 days ago I hope she received it all right I am sorry I have'nt the wrap finished to send it to her but we are so awfully busy and we have no help but ourselves. I am sending you the Photo with this letter for Annie Dillon I would have sent it sooner but I had a very sore eye, there was a sty growing on the inside lower lid and I had to get it cut out by Dr. OConnor. I had to keep it bandaged for about a week as it was very sore. You did not answer my last letter yet I hope you won't forget too. Annie has got every one of her teeth out of her upper jaw, she had not bother in getting them out she won't get them in until about February. I have not being speaking to Katie Buckley since. I will now close as I have no more to say. only I hope you'll send me a nice present for Xmas. and tell your wife I'm very sorry as I have not the wrap finished for her again Wishing ye a Merry Xmas I remain
Yours loving sister
Mai.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
October 22, 1913
From: May Gleasure, Listowel Square
To: Frank Gleasure, 4 Bayard Street, Allston, Mass. U.S.A.
My dear Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter about a week ago and was very glad to learn by same that ye are quite well we are all about the same over here. We are just about getting the bad weather now it was just like summer until this week we had a very good year. We had the Races here last week and had a great time at them. The weather could not be better than it was and the town was packed with people there was never such a crowd seen at them, we done splendid business at them. I did not go to the Race Course at all but all the others did they never let me go to them. The Big November Fair is coming off next week I suppose you remember that, thats the day we'll have to work, the town is impoving every year in the line of fairs and markets and business is increasing, father has given me charge of the place now I have to see after all the accounts of the shop we don't keep any apprentice now because George is a lot of his time in the shop. Annie would like very much to do some thing for herself but she would not say anything about it to father she'd like very much to go out to you, and in fact we all want to go over I'm getting sick of this place its so dull the same old life from year to year, that fellow you see in the post-card said he'd take me out in a few years if I went with him we are going together for the last 2 years and a half, he is in a drapers shop here in town and is a very steady boy, he is a Catholic but that won't make any difference between us you need not say anything about him in your letter while you're writing as father would see it and I don't want him to know anything about him you can write it on a separate piece of paper if you are saying anything Annie don't go with any fellow she only plays away with them all. I will send you that Photo for Annie Dillon soon, its a wonder she never drops us a line or even to her father did you say anything about it to her, he always asks me if you say anything about her in your letters or about Lizzie do you see her at all. Well Frank ye ought to have come home this year for awhile is there any chance that ye'd come next year Father Paul Dillon is coming home next April and I don't know if Mike will come or not. by the way I was speaking to Katy Buckley about a week after I wrote to you the last time she said that you were doing fine she told me all about the little baby. I got those last papers and music alright send some more soon if you can as we are short of reading lately. I will now close Hoping you will write very soon again I remain
Your loving sister
May
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To: Frank Gleasure, 4 Bayard Street, Allston, Mass. U.S.A.
My dear Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter about a week ago and was very glad to learn by same that ye are quite well we are all about the same over here. We are just about getting the bad weather now it was just like summer until this week we had a very good year. We had the Races here last week and had a great time at them. The weather could not be better than it was and the town was packed with people there was never such a crowd seen at them, we done splendid business at them. I did not go to the Race Course at all but all the others did they never let me go to them. The Big November Fair is coming off next week I suppose you remember that, thats the day we'll have to work, the town is impoving every year in the line of fairs and markets and business is increasing, father has given me charge of the place now I have to see after all the accounts of the shop we don't keep any apprentice now because George is a lot of his time in the shop. Annie would like very much to do some thing for herself but she would not say anything about it to father she'd like very much to go out to you, and in fact we all want to go over I'm getting sick of this place its so dull the same old life from year to year, that fellow you see in the post-card said he'd take me out in a few years if I went with him we are going together for the last 2 years and a half, he is in a drapers shop here in town and is a very steady boy, he is a Catholic but that won't make any difference between us you need not say anything about him in your letter while you're writing as father would see it and I don't want him to know anything about him you can write it on a separate piece of paper if you are saying anything Annie don't go with any fellow she only plays away with them all. I will send you that Photo for Annie Dillon soon, its a wonder she never drops us a line or even to her father did you say anything about it to her, he always asks me if you say anything about her in your letters or about Lizzie do you see her at all. Well Frank ye ought to have come home this year for awhile is there any chance that ye'd come next year Father Paul Dillon is coming home next April and I don't know if Mike will come or not. by the way I was speaking to Katy Buckley about a week after I wrote to you the last time she said that you were doing fine she told me all about the little baby. I got those last papers and music alright send some more soon if you can as we are short of reading lately. I will now close Hoping you will write very soon again I remain
Your loving sister
May
Send me as much of the Boston Sunday Magisnes as you can also the Boston Sunday Globes
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
June 26, 1913
From: May Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 4 Bayard Street Allston, Mass. U.S.A.
My dearest Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter a few days ago and was delighted at hearing from you. We are all quite well here at home. but we have some very bad weather all the time, we have had no summer as yet nothing but rain almost every day. I suppose ye have some very good weather over there before now. Katy Buckley did not call to see us since she came home but I see her out walking a few evenings ago but I had one of the opposite sex along with me I suppose she did not like to stand and speak to me, Nell Dowling was speaking to her and she told her all about you how that you had a splendid time and a lovely place. There are a lot of people at home here in the town from America within the last month. Its a wonder you never think of taking a trip home. I suppose you'll hardly ever again come back here and it's no wonder, Listowel is an awful dull old place I wished I could leave it in the morning. There was an awful highway robbery committed here on the 2nd June about 6 miles from Listowel it was a banker that used to carry money from this to Abbeyfeale and four masked men jumped out from behind the ditch and took L780 = 5/ from them I am sending you the paper about it. I am also sending you some more Photo's of myself the one on the post card is more like me than any of the others. I hope you'll take out yours and send them to us, it was an awful pity you did not take the baby's Photo, I would love to have seen it. Jim Connor is laid up sick since last January it was a cold he got and did not mind himself and then he got pains all over him and he is not over them since none of them got married yet although they want a housekeeper badly they have nobody with them only a servant girl James is getting old now its time he gave up the place to one of them. Do you get any music in the newspapers now if you do I hope you'll keep them for me. and don't forget to send us some papers to read as I am always in the shop now I like to have something to be reading so I hope you'll send me something I did not get the letter from your wife yet I hope she has not forgotten to write to me. and I hope you'll write yourself again soon I will now close for this time Hoping ye are well
I remain
Yours loving sister
Mai.
To: Frank Gleasure, 4 Bayard Street Allston, Mass. U.S.A.
My dearest Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter a few days ago and was delighted at hearing from you. We are all quite well here at home. but we have some very bad weather all the time, we have had no summer as yet nothing but rain almost every day. I suppose ye have some very good weather over there before now. Katy Buckley did not call to see us since she came home but I see her out walking a few evenings ago but I had one of the opposite sex along with me I suppose she did not like to stand and speak to me, Nell Dowling was speaking to her and she told her all about you how that you had a splendid time and a lovely place. There are a lot of people at home here in the town from America within the last month. Its a wonder you never think of taking a trip home. I suppose you'll hardly ever again come back here and it's no wonder, Listowel is an awful dull old place I wished I could leave it in the morning. There was an awful highway robbery committed here on the 2nd June about 6 miles from Listowel it was a banker that used to carry money from this to Abbeyfeale and four masked men jumped out from behind the ditch and took L780 = 5/ from them I am sending you the paper about it. I am also sending you some more Photo's of myself the one on the post card is more like me than any of the others. I hope you'll take out yours and send them to us, it was an awful pity you did not take the baby's Photo, I would love to have seen it. Jim Connor is laid up sick since last January it was a cold he got and did not mind himself and then he got pains all over him and he is not over them since none of them got married yet although they want a housekeeper badly they have nobody with them only a servant girl James is getting old now its time he gave up the place to one of them. Do you get any music in the newspapers now if you do I hope you'll keep them for me. and don't forget to send us some papers to read as I am always in the shop now I like to have something to be reading so I hope you'll send me something I did not get the letter from your wife yet I hope she has not forgotten to write to me. and I hope you'll write yourself again soon I will now close for this time Hoping ye are well
I remain
Yours loving sister
Mai.
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