Dix, Elvira & William - Letters

Letter #1

 

Elvira Dix

 

My dear sister

I received your kind and welcome letter and was very thankful to hear that you are well and enjoying good health  we are all well at preseant  Dear sister I am sory that you feel so much when you saw the likeness ( a family picture sent to her).  Dear sister the children are all right ane I hope the summer is not very far off that we will see each other if please God   David do want to come away with the train to Utah to his aunty  little David he  is in great trouble what will we do draws(drawers) and the furnichure that we got in the house  he want to know if we can carrie them to Utah with us   Thomas is quite well he asking for his anty very often  little William is quite well  Willam have been one week in the house bad   he is got well again  Dear sister I hope you will enjoy yourself on the twenty forth of next month I am sorry that you are in such a fix about your young man I would like to see you in your new close I expect you are cutting a swell in them  Cousin Joseph when he had a suit of black close we had fun with him  he did not know the way he put himself  Dear sister I hope the Lord will bless us all with health and strength  Dear sister you no need to think much about us but be happy always and then things will come around better we must have time a little time  we don’t know what will come forth  I do my best towards coming I prey god to bless you and bless us all every night and morning

            Elvira Dix  x x x x x x

 

Letter #2

Dear sister  I have toke the pleasure of writing  you these few lines hopping it will find you in good health as it leaves us all  at preasant  you do have the toth each all the time   Dear sister we received your letter and was very glad to hear from you  we are very glad to hear that you do like your place  well David Dix is in school everyday up in Morris  he is well  he havent been bad since you went away  he do ask very often were is aunty  Thomas is  well and he got so much toungh(tough) you would not think little William is quite well  Dearest you ont be hear to go to Langaflach fair this time   me and William are in the concert and mother  we enjoyed yourselfs(ourselves) very well   cousin Joseph was singing in the consert  Eliza Rees do send her kind love to you and her mother Anny Rees do send her kind love to you and her sister   David Landers is married and living with is mother  Dear sister I hope it not far that we will meet in Zion  I hope the Lord will bless you   Kind love to all my relatins kind love to sarah Llewlyn  the saints is swansea are just the same now as they was when you went away   William Dix


Dear sister I hope you are well   I have got the toth each this week  I hope you will do well  I am glad that you do like your place so well   I was afraid you was working to hard  if I has mony I would like to come out to see you   I do often think of the fun we use to have in hour house  I have lost the only one that I use to have fun with  you are just the same I suppose   the chrildren are well so no more at preasant from your effionate brother William Dix and true sister Elvira Dix   I hope the Lord will bless your Daer sister is my prayer mornings and evenings  Elvira Dix  Write  soon more next time 

 

Letter #3

 

This letter was sent with Elvira’s                                                                                               

 

 William Dix           Dear sister I received your kind and welcome letter and very glad to hear from you and glad that you are well  I am well at preasant I have been one week bad


not working and am well again the children talk enought about you  I have yet to set the garden with your mother again  I will come to Utah  I am sorry you are in such a fix about your young man and your stepfather  Your sweet heart is nearer to you than stepfather  I am sorry for you that your sweetheart do live so far from you that you cant see him often  give my kind love to him  I hope you will have a good one  give my kind love to all our relations and Sarah Llewyne  you must tell me something about her young man in the next letter  We are working six turns   we have been about two months working four turns  it is coming again  my father have been in bristle under the opperation  he could not see with one eye  he can see now with one eye  there is a great deal of people dying very sudden hear  I would be a long time naming them  I hope you do have some fun sometimes I do often think of the fun we use to have  I should be with you and your sweetheart on the twenty forth of next of month so no more at preasant                                                       William Dix

 

Letter #4

                                                                                     

Dear sister Mary Ann,   I received your kind letter.  I was glad to hear that you like the place so well  I was glad to hear that you was so well on the sea  I hope that you will do well   I  hope that you won’t get married until I come to Utah for me to come to the wedding  I was glad to hear that you had a good Companion on the trip  We are working six turns for a little while  I don’t how long it will be   my father is very bad in the rumatic  he cant move from bed  I do think very often the fun we use to have in our house  I think that you are the same there  I havent got place to write more for you       Your brother William Dix

 

(William’s letters were  usually added to the end of Elvira’s letters)                                           

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Immigrants:

Dix, William

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