The Icelandic Canadian - 01.04.2006, Blaðsíða 38

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Vol. 60 #1
Letters from FriSjon Fri5riksson
Translated by unknown source
Fridjon Fridriksson
Letter 24
May 13 1882
My dearest friends!
I received yours of 7th and 15th of
February on the 4th inst.,
A thousand thanks for kind words and
sympathy. We are all well now, Aurora
had the measles last week, but has got over
it now. Business is first rate, I have since
April sawn 140 thousand feet of lumber.
Price will be high this summer.
Victoria is running on the Red River.
The weather is cold and not a shower
of rain yet, still the green grass is cropping
up.
The Icelanders in this country are
prospering. Let us thank the merciful
God. If you cannot come over this sum-
mer you must come the next, if possible. I
intend to write you by next steamer from
Leith June 20th, but our mail from
Icelandic River (only once in two weeks)
might be too late, hence I send this card.
I wrote to brother Arni this morning
and asked him to send you J & B yeast
cakes my dear Mrs. B.
We send our love to you. May God
be with you and bless you and your dear
little children forever and ever.
Your sincere friend and brother.
Fr. Fr
Letter 25
On board the Victoria on Lake
Winnipeg, October 9, 1882
Dear friends,
I thank you very much for your letters
written on the 2nd and 14th of August.
The weather in Iceland is certainly dismal
and it could have disastrous consequences,
but God who is constantly watching over
us will undoubtedly help.
I am not going to write a long letter
this time, and there, I am going to concen-
trate on business matters.
Last fall, I sent $2.00 to John and
Wattles solely for "Sunday School Times."
I though that it was enough payment for
the annual subscription of this magazine
including postage. On the 4th of this
month I sent him $2.25 asking him to send
you the magazine. On the same day I sent
$4.00 to Harper Bros, for "Magazine" and
$2.00 to Belling and Co. for "Norden." I
assumed that you wanted these publica-
tions even though you never asked me to
pay for them. I did not send any payment
for "Den Kristelige Talsmand", the
Christian Agent, I thought that you didn't
care for that magazine since you have the