From: W.L. Kennedy Weldon Post Office To: James Gilmore Esq Kern County. Cal Mayfield County Down Ireland Feby 3d 1879 My Dear Cousin It is I presume many and many a long day since you have heard anything of me and I know it is 35 long years since I was last at your nice little cottage home - to think of since I were there you may have soons who now may be grandfathers how time flies. whether WE count the sands of time or not - the old fellow will count it in the white in our hair and the wrinkles in our cheeks - I have not had a letter from home now - from any one of our family for more than a year - Isabella used to correspond with meeregular untill lately and I fear very much either she has been very sick or is dead - the latter I fear, do Cousin James on receipt of this letter - write to adress at head of this letter (Cal) means California) and let me know if Isabella is alive or not she stuck to me through thick and thin in sickness and health - I would like to know if cousin John Gilmore is living and his adress I presume if living he is a very sick man in Australia - also I would like to know Robert and Alexander King's adress in Australia - I heard some of them boys were at England & America on their return home with the Australian Cricketers It would be almost useless for me to attempt to give you an account of my wanderings since I left home - I