Thomas McNulty Sr

This is a project I have just started. I bought this letter off of Ebay and now trying to sort out the story. 

Mr. Thomas McNulty, Sr

RR2 Box 16

Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA

c/o Mrs Margaret Donegan

Rooskey, Echo

Sept 2nd 1931

Dear Thomas,

I received your welcome letter two weeks ago, my two sisters arrived same day, and went home again last Friday, they took little Nancy with them, you know our Nancy, the one who wanted to go home with you. I don’t know how long they will keep her, I miss her very much, She was the only one who would look after Eileen. Mary goes to school on her bike now it only takes her an hour to go now. One of my sisters and I spent a day in Enniscrow last week, it was nice but rather cold, there isn’t much of a town there. I made a few pictures, but they didn’t turn out very good, I took a snap of Nancy shaking hands with the Yank, the day she was going away, those two were always chums. 

I hope you are enjoying the best of health as we all are. We have had some fairly good weather lately although there are parts of this country were flooded and lots of crops have been washed away and some cattle were lost in the floods, quite a slot of destruction has been done in many other countries and hundreds of people lost their lives owing to floods, so we think ourselves very lucky. We don’t have visitors anymore, those pretty Rogan girls carried tales to John Molloy so he doesn’t come anymore, I’m rather glad something choked him off, I was just about sick of him, just imagine he wanted to show me how to ride the bike, I baulked. I will send one of Nancy’s good-bye pictures if they turn out alright. 

Good-bye love from all and Teresa

Return address:

A.McNulty, Rooskey, Foxford

Mayo, Ire