1894 July Little Glace Bay Letter

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Little Glace Bay
July 16th 1894

Dear Sister

It is with much pleasure I sit down to your welcome letter and was glad to hear that you are well. We are all well and hope this will find you the same. We have very hot weather here and lots of rain. Mother and I are living with Abe, he has only one little boy. Katie is living with Mrs. John Ross at the new mines.



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Emeline's husband is building a large flat roof house you would hardly know Glace Bay now it is built up so nothing but flat roof cottages since the syndicate got the mines lots of steamers and vessels. There are three large steamers in now and some full rigged ships. Papa was seventy one in January and he died on the eleventh of March, Mama was fifty nine the third of January and papa's was the last day of January. Uncle Anthony has not been down since four years this summer he has lost his last



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wife too she died two days after father died she had a cancer in her stomach poor old man he feels pretty lonely now his youngest daughter came from Michigan and is keeping house for him. He has a lovely house he built it shortly after he was married the second time his last wife had some money I did not ssk him if she left itvall with him or not. Uncle Joe Phillips is living up to Mira he has a house of his own he has five children. Uncle Arnold Holmes is very sick they don't expect him to live.



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Uncle Timothy's first family are all married and one of the last he has seven not married. There is none of Absolum's family married or Theodore's either. Well I will send you the picture of me and you together the picture has got a little scratched it was out of the album and it got scratched with the corner of another tintype. We are going to have a strawberry festival towards painting the church next Wednesday. Well I must come to a close. What are your girls doing? Are they at home or not? Write sooner than you did the other time. I was going to again to see what was the matter. Give my love to all the family not forgetting yourself, Mama joins in too.



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From
Miss Lucinda Martell
Little Glace Bay
Cape Breton
Nova Scotia