Millmount
3rd March 1903

My Dear Sallie [1] ,

              Yours to Alicia* this morning has given us all fresh thought for you & your darling little pets.  We all hope & pray that the change will agree with you all.  I am sure you will be very busy so tell Sissy Reid I will expect her to write to me to tell when news of you comes from afar.  Africa [2] does not seem as far as California partly because there are so many from Keady there & they are always going & coming.  I wrote to Mary Menary [3] since Christmas to ask how her mother [4] was keeping & I find from her our relation which Mary wrote & when I heard I knew it perfectly.  Your fathers mother was a Miss Bartley [5] .  Mrs. Jackson [6] said sister to my grand father but I think from looking at the Bartley papers & dates [7] she must have been his aunt.  That can be settled when I find her name.  I am sure you will be amused at me writing this.  Mrs. Jackson said yr mother was not related but I always heard there was an intermarriage in an older generation that she was a far out one.  This is all I know now & shortly there will be more.  I remember the Bartley name in the country.

    I hope you will get on better during this voyage & you ought to consult a Doctor before you start as there is such wonderful medicines these days for the heart & I have heard of several persons who was affected like you & they got relief when they got a Drs. advice.  Of course once through the bay of Biscay you will likely have a good passage.

    With love & warmest wishes for your welfare including Clare [8] & Mary [9]

                            Ever yours affectionately
                                   Anne McKean [10]

*NOTE: I neglected to footnote "Alicia". She is a sister of Annie McKEAN, the sende of this letter.