April ????
(Circa 1897)

James Howe
Claranagh Tempo
Co. Fermanagh
Ireland

Dear Cousin I now sit down to answer your kind and welcome letter. Hoping to find you's all enjoying good health as this leaves us in at present thank God as there is a lot of sickness and Death about here at present. Uncle Thompson had a letter from Jane and she said in

it that your mother was ill but she did not say what was the matter with her. We hope she will be all right by the time this reaches you. The weather is hine here at present but very cold. You were saying in your letter that you supposed Ellen had gone to Scotland. By that time she had gone and was back home again before the letter came. She stopped 7 weeks in it and is in bad health since she came

back and she put away the servant he had before she was a week home. She says she was 3 week in business but could not bear the work so it took some money to help her 1 week and take her there and bring her home again. I think she would have been as well with Uncle Thompson on and had to come back after all. He has wrote for Jane to come home & he says she won't come and he says how he will sell

the Land again Harvest and go to Oliver. He had a letter from him telling him the prices of everything so he says he will go to him. You were saying Aunt Jane expected some money after Grandmothers death. He says she sent him 2 soverings the week before Ellen went away for fear he would be bear after giving Ellen her money but indeed he is not bear for he has 6 cows & 4 bullocks and the horse so I think he is not in much need...

We got the paper you sent which many thanks for it. You cousin Annie J. Howe

Goodbye You did not tell me the names of you sisters in your letter...???