can anyone read this letter

[Mike Fisher]

I can't make top nor tail of what this letter say.

[Velma Dinkley]

Unfortunately it's too small to read, however if you upload to Photobucket and then add the image link to a post then you should have a big enough image for us to read the text.

If you don't know how to use Photobucket, here's a useful guide http://www.familytreeforum.com/refer...otobucket.html

[Non]

Looks like it's written in Welsh

Non

[Stella]

All I can manage to read is the name of the hotel - The Raven Hotel, Droitwich.

[Jill on the A272]

Looks like it's written in Welsh

Non

That's what I think too

[naomiatt]

Hi - this could be the Hotel - http://www.raven-hotel.co.uk/

[Mike Fisher]

I have posted the image on http://mjfisher.blogspot.com/ , click on the image to enlarge it to the biggest size I can get it

[Mike Fisher]

I know the hotel it's the text I need reading. I have a large number of images of the hotel

[Meridian Line]

Blimey....I thought it was upside down at one point!!

I think last word of 2nd line could be "Late"

there are a couple of words that look like "you"

[kiki1982]

Yup, Welsh, my hubby agrees. The first word is "Yr" ("the") and the letter features twice the word "ym" which means "in" in English. For the rest, we are not Welsh-speakers I'm afraid and we cannot read it. :(

[Stella]

The site RootsChat have a section on there where you can get Welsh translated. It is in the Wales General section.

[margaretmarch]

Google's translation facility shows Welsh as one of the options

[Uncle John]

And it might be quite accurate. I believe Welsh has Latin roots (modern Welsh was partially "invented").

[kiki1982]

Problem is, can anyone actually read what the guy/woman has written. When one does not speak a language it's difficult to guess at such handwriting... ;)

[Christine in Herts]

And it might be quite accurate. I believe Welsh has Latin roots (modern Welsh was partially "invented").

The word for window and one of the words for church are something like fenestr (c.f. fenestra) and eglwys (c.f whatever the classical word is that generates "ecclesiastical" and the like - or église, in French).

Christine

[Non]

Nofio yn y llyn = swimming in the lake

Non

[Mike Fisher]

Roots chat solved it

Yr ydwyf yn nofio yn y llyn heli - I am swimming in the brine lake (pool)
ac yn mendio yn gyflym - and am recovering/getting better quickly
yr eithoch [eiddoch] yn gywir - yours sincerely

So they had been to the brine baths

[Christine in Herts]

Interesting... "heli" must be "salt". You get place-names like Halle in salt-mine areas. And there are other words/place-names with similar prefixes.

Christine