From: May Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure
My dear Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter a short time ago and was very glad to hear from you. I also got those songs this morning they were lovely every one of them and I am very thankful for them Annie got your letter alright Tom Connor has settled down in Ireland to shoe making once more and is getting too much to do. you know he was splendid at shoemaking. He is not at his own house but he is friends with them all the same. I suppose you did not know that his father was writing to him while he was in England But he was afraid to come across Jim or John. Paddy went to see him when he came home they were always great friends last Wednesday Tom was in our Kitchen and Georgie knew that John and Jim were in the shop so he went and brought John in and we made them speak so he meet Jim later and he spoke to him they are all in all again. he is going to get one of those Cottages after Xmas he is at Jude Daughtons (mother-in-law) at present. You'd know him the minute you'd look at him only he got older looking some way I am sure it is unacount of his mustache he would not know me at all he said I got so big, it would be hard to say that you'd know me so if you saw me. We had a splendid coursing match in Listowel last Thursday & Friday our dogs done very well there one of them got second in one Stake and the other got third in another Stake they would have won the Stakes only they were grulled in there other courses. You might not understand coursing but I'll try to tell you, there is so many dogs in every Stake and these are coupled and each couple has to hunt a Hare and half of those dogs are the ones that won and then what dogs remain are couples again and so on until it comes to the two last dogs and whoever wins the last course has won the Stake Our dogs met two very bad dogs and had to work and kill the hare themselves single handed so they were tried then and had to go for there next course with their tongues hanging out We got about L8.10 eight pound ten out of it there was a comrade of ours won the big Stake he was belonging to Fitzell in Toherbane we had a great time at the Coursing we enjoyed it more than we did the races. We had an awful crowd of the Fitzell's from Toherbane stopping with us the first night we done great business because all the men that were intrestid in dogs came to our place unacount of us having the dogs I am sending you a little present and hope you will get in all right. It must be very hard for you sometimes on those freight trains especially when you have to work by night. Do you ever take a notion or think about coming to Ireland anymore I don't think I have any more to say at present so I will close Wishing you a Very Happy Xmas and a bright and Prosperous New Year Hoping you are well as we all are here at present Write soon agan I remain
Your loving sister Mai.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Thursday, August 30, 2012
October 16, 1910
From: May Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Ave., Allston, Mass, U.S.A.
My dear Frank,
I received those three books of music about a week ago and am very thankful for them they were very nice ones I had some of the songs that were in them myself. We are just over the races and Big Fair they passed away very quiet and we had two splendid fine days for the races but it was very wet for the Big Fair. We are going to have Coursing in Listowel on the 8th & 9th of December for the first time, there is an iron bridge going across to the Island Course so they can hold the race and Coursing there every year they have a lease of it for 99 years. Tom Connor came from England last Wednesday with his wife and two kids. he did not go to his own place or meet any of his own lads since he is out at Jude Daughton's his mother-in-law's. Father did not write to you since but he will do it one of these days he said. Did you here from Mrs Morris lately I had some papers from her but no letter this long time. I don't think I have any more to say Hoping you will write very soon I remain
Your loving sister
Mai Gleasure.
P.S. If you are sending me a Xmas present this year I would like a watch or bracelet and Annie said she would like a small gold locket one that you could close and open. I remember you said last year that you did not know what kind of things to get for us I would like a watch very much they all have them at home except me you can send whichever you like yourself. Hope you are well as we all are here at present.
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Ave., Allston, Mass, U.S.A.
My dear Frank,
I received those three books of music about a week ago and am very thankful for them they were very nice ones I had some of the songs that were in them myself. We are just over the races and Big Fair they passed away very quiet and we had two splendid fine days for the races but it was very wet for the Big Fair. We are going to have Coursing in Listowel on the 8th & 9th of December for the first time, there is an iron bridge going across to the Island Course so they can hold the race and Coursing there every year they have a lease of it for 99 years. Tom Connor came from England last Wednesday with his wife and two kids. he did not go to his own place or meet any of his own lads since he is out at Jude Daughton's his mother-in-law's. Father did not write to you since but he will do it one of these days he said. Did you here from Mrs Morris lately I had some papers from her but no letter this long time. I don't think I have any more to say Hoping you will write very soon I remain
Your loving sister
Mai Gleasure.
P.S. If you are sending me a Xmas present this year I would like a watch or bracelet and Annie said she would like a small gold locket one that you could close and open. I remember you said last year that you did not know what kind of things to get for us I would like a watch very much they all have them at home except me you can send whichever you like yourself. Hope you are well as we all are here at present.
October 11, 1910
From: May Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Avenue, Allston, Mass. U.S.A.
Father is writing to you himself about that Certificate
My dearest Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter about a week ago and was very glad to hear from you. We have some splendid weather here for the last month I hope it will continue until after the races and the big fair They are to be held on the 25th and 26th of this month. I got a letter from Mrs Morris about three weeks ago do you ever write to her now. By the way I want to ask you if you got the Photo of the house I sent I also had an newspaper with it you never said a word about it. Father has not got the certificate of your baptism but I am telling you where you will get it. I hope you will get me some nice songs when you are sending next ones the last ones were very nice also something nice to read I don't mind if they have only paper covers if the reading is nice or if you could get me a nice book of poem's I like poetry very much or diaulogues if you could get them. Mrs Morris promised me some music but she did not send it yet. Did you get Annie's letter she wrote a short time before I received the letter from you, well when she told me that she had a letter written to you I come very near getting a standing weakness we put a notch in one of the rafters in remembrance of it I suppose it is three or four years since she wrote to you last. Father has two dogs in for the coursing it is to be held on the 3 + 4 Nov. I hope they will win something this time they seem to be pretty good ones George has them well brought out he is very busy training them he don't care very much for racing at all now but coursing he could trace about dogs that would win stakes over in England for you he buys a lot of coursing papers and sees all about them. No more to say so I will close Hoping you will write very soon again We are all quite well over here hope you are A.I. I suppose you had a splendid time at that wedding.
I remain
Your loving sister
Mai.
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Avenue, Allston, Mass. U.S.A.
Father is writing to you himself about that Certificate
My dearest Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter about a week ago and was very glad to hear from you. We have some splendid weather here for the last month I hope it will continue until after the races and the big fair They are to be held on the 25th and 26th of this month. I got a letter from Mrs Morris about three weeks ago do you ever write to her now. By the way I want to ask you if you got the Photo of the house I sent I also had an newspaper with it you never said a word about it. Father has not got the certificate of your baptism but I am telling you where you will get it. I hope you will get me some nice songs when you are sending next ones the last ones were very nice also something nice to read I don't mind if they have only paper covers if the reading is nice or if you could get me a nice book of poem's I like poetry very much or diaulogues if you could get them. Mrs Morris promised me some music but she did not send it yet. Did you get Annie's letter she wrote a short time before I received the letter from you, well when she told me that she had a letter written to you I come very near getting a standing weakness we put a notch in one of the rafters in remembrance of it I suppose it is three or four years since she wrote to you last. Father has two dogs in for the coursing it is to be held on the 3 + 4 Nov. I hope they will win something this time they seem to be pretty good ones George has them well brought out he is very busy training them he don't care very much for racing at all now but coursing he could trace about dogs that would win stakes over in England for you he buys a lot of coursing papers and sees all about them. No more to say so I will close Hoping you will write very soon again We are all quite well over here hope you are A.I. I suppose you had a splendid time at that wedding.
I remain
Your loving sister
Mai.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
September 21, 1910
From: Annie Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
My Dear Brother,
I can find no excuse for not writing to you this long time past, but I suppose you must know by this time that I am a very bad correspondent. I often got my note-paper and pen ready to write to you but I would sit before it for two hours maybe without writing a line and then put it away again. I will try now after this to write more regularly. I hope you are in good health and doing well, we are fairly well here ourselves, but George was rather sick last week, he suffers very much from indigestion, and so he must be rather particular about his food. He got frightful thin lately, he is growing too, that might be the cause. He hasn't been out in the country for any holidays this summer, and it would do him good if he could get out, but you know he has charge of those greyhounds and they take up all his time, they are an awful bother, four dogs and a little of five pups, you may be sure I am heartily sick of them around the place. I suffered a great deal from indigestion myself last winter so I know what it is. I was out for a week at Ballyhenessy at the time my Grandmother died and I can tell you I felt fine after it even though it was at such a sorrowful time, for I wasn't away from home since the time Paddy Connor was getting married. It is something dreadful in this town not a bit of life, I wish I was out of it. Now I am going to ask you if you could send me four pound for I want to get a set of teeth in and the pater won't get them for me and my teeth are very bad much worse than Mai's before she got hers out, so will you try and send it if you can as soon as you get this. I have no more to say this time so I will close.
Remaining yours most affectionately
Annie Gleasure
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
My Dear Brother,
I can find no excuse for not writing to you this long time past, but I suppose you must know by this time that I am a very bad correspondent. I often got my note-paper and pen ready to write to you but I would sit before it for two hours maybe without writing a line and then put it away again. I will try now after this to write more regularly. I hope you are in good health and doing well, we are fairly well here ourselves, but George was rather sick last week, he suffers very much from indigestion, and so he must be rather particular about his food. He got frightful thin lately, he is growing too, that might be the cause. He hasn't been out in the country for any holidays this summer, and it would do him good if he could get out, but you know he has charge of those greyhounds and they take up all his time, they are an awful bother, four dogs and a little of five pups, you may be sure I am heartily sick of them around the place. I suffered a great deal from indigestion myself last winter so I know what it is. I was out for a week at Ballyhenessy at the time my Grandmother died and I can tell you I felt fine after it even though it was at such a sorrowful time, for I wasn't away from home since the time Paddy Connor was getting married. It is something dreadful in this town not a bit of life, I wish I was out of it. Now I am going to ask you if you could send me four pound for I want to get a set of teeth in and the pater won't get them for me and my teeth are very bad much worse than Mai's before she got hers out, so will you try and send it if you can as soon as you get this. I have no more to say this time so I will close.
Remaining yours most affectionately
Annie Gleasure
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
September 12, 1910
From: Helen A. Reardon, South Natick
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Ave., Allston, Mass.
My dear Frank,
When your letter came Miss Bailey was dressed for a trip to Buzzard's Bay for a week so she turned the letter over to me.
I have inquired very carefully and find the record of the baptism of your four brothers and sisters but none of yours. I called on Miss Burr and she remembers that your father said you had been baptized before. I, also, remember when your father was planning the ceremony at Mrs. Burr's house he said that you had been baptized. Probably you were baptized where you were born or when you were quite small. You could be baptized again or send to your father though their would be no time for that. Miss Bailey and I can vouchsafe for your father's saying what he did, if that will do.
We were very glad to hear from you. Why do you not come out some Sunday? I have inquired at the South Station for you and we knew you were there.
I wonder if the other children will come out. I do not wonder that your father hesitates about their doing so. You did not mention Annie. She must be very sober -- the mother of the family.
I wish you would come out any fine Sunday and spend the day with us. Remember the latchstring will always be out for you. I have good help just now after a siege with three drunken help in a year.
We congratulate you on your success in your work. When you become a full-fledged engineer we will be very proud of you.
Hoping to see you soon. I am very truly your friend.
Helen A. Reardon
South Natick
Sept.
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Ave., Allston, Mass.
My dear Frank,
When your letter came Miss Bailey was dressed for a trip to Buzzard's Bay for a week so she turned the letter over to me.
I have inquired very carefully and find the record of the baptism of your four brothers and sisters but none of yours. I called on Miss Burr and she remembers that your father said you had been baptized before. I, also, remember when your father was planning the ceremony at Mrs. Burr's house he said that you had been baptized. Probably you were baptized where you were born or when you were quite small. You could be baptized again or send to your father though their would be no time for that. Miss Bailey and I can vouchsafe for your father's saying what he did, if that will do.
We were very glad to hear from you. Why do you not come out some Sunday? I have inquired at the South Station for you and we knew you were there.
I wonder if the other children will come out. I do not wonder that your father hesitates about their doing so. You did not mention Annie. She must be very sober -- the mother of the family.
I wish you would come out any fine Sunday and spend the day with us. Remember the latchstring will always be out for you. I have good help just now after a siege with three drunken help in a year.
We congratulate you on your success in your work. When you become a full-fledged engineer we will be very proud of you.
Hoping to see you soon. I am very truly your friend.
Helen A. Reardon
South Natick
Sept.
August 22, 1910
From: May Gleasure, The Square, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Avenue, Allston, Mass, U.S.A.
My dear Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter this morning as was very glad to hear from you. I was looking out for a letter this long time I was going to write but it is lucky that I didn't. The weather here is very bad for the last 3 weeks or so. We had our Bishop in town yesterday George got confirmed. I was confirmed 3 years ago. Mrs Dillane died on the 12th Aug. and was buried in Duagh on 14th Annie and I went to the wake on Saturday night. father was going to go but George would not stop in the house alone with our Apprentice. Annie stoped in the country then for a week to keep them company all the boys were at home. Was I telling you that we had a new apprentice he is Doran from Corrig he is a cousin to the one we had before, he is about the greenest fellow I ever came across I don't think I have very much chance of getting holidays this year with him, Ned Carroll that we had before has got a splendid place down in County Waterford and he may thank father for it. His father Pat Carroll I don't know if you knew him died on the 15 July. Father did not say anything about Annie since, it would be time as you say that she was doing something for herself. We could manage very well without her for George knows something about the shop now. They are all well out at Tullig. Have you got any more music, I am going to get all those pieces bound together when I get some more of them we can get them done for nothing father got all his music books beautifully done one of our paper agents that done them. Write as soon as possible again I remain
Your loving sister Mai.
To: Frank Gleasure, 14 Webster Avenue, Allston, Mass, U.S.A.
My dear Frank,
I received your most welcomed letter this morning as was very glad to hear from you. I was looking out for a letter this long time I was going to write but it is lucky that I didn't. The weather here is very bad for the last 3 weeks or so. We had our Bishop in town yesterday George got confirmed. I was confirmed 3 years ago. Mrs Dillane died on the 12th Aug. and was buried in Duagh on 14th Annie and I went to the wake on Saturday night. father was going to go but George would not stop in the house alone with our Apprentice. Annie stoped in the country then for a week to keep them company all the boys were at home. Was I telling you that we had a new apprentice he is Doran from Corrig he is a cousin to the one we had before, he is about the greenest fellow I ever came across I don't think I have very much chance of getting holidays this year with him, Ned Carroll that we had before has got a splendid place down in County Waterford and he may thank father for it. His father Pat Carroll I don't know if you knew him died on the 15 July. Father did not say anything about Annie since, it would be time as you say that she was doing something for herself. We could manage very well without her for George knows something about the shop now. They are all well out at Tullig. Have you got any more music, I am going to get all those pieces bound together when I get some more of them we can get them done for nothing father got all his music books beautifully done one of our paper agents that done them. Write as soon as possible again I remain
Your loving sister Mai.
Monday, August 27, 2012
June 10, 1910
From: May Gleasure, Listowel
To: Frank Gleasure, 4 Franklin St, Allston, Mass, U.S.A.
My dearest Frank,
Thanks very much for nice music which I received a few days ago There were some nice songs in them, it was a lot nicer than the first ones. I wrote to you a few days ago hope you will get my letter all right. I will send the Photo as soon as we get them. Don't forget the Flags and have them on in time from May
To: Frank Gleasure, 4 Franklin St, Allston, Mass, U.S.A.
My dearest Frank,
Thanks very much for nice music which I received a few days ago There were some nice songs in them, it was a lot nicer than the first ones. I wrote to you a few days ago hope you will get my letter all right. I will send the Photo as soon as we get them. Don't forget the Flags and have them on in time from May
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