I found this letter

[[Ray]]

Nothing like this story then?
http://thompsongenealogy.com/2010/05/old-letter-is-probably-fake-but-still-makes-good-reading/

Like the fake HomeOffice letters when Idi Amin threw out the "Ugandan Asians".

[Erato]

It's a dead ringer.

[ShaunJ]

Another version in a book on the topic of chain letters and traditional letters:  https://goo.gl/PD5v9v

[ShaunJ]

And another http://lists.topica.com/lists/sunrisers/read/message.html?sort=t&mid=912541831

And see http://timeline.ie/old-irish-family-letters/

[thegreatpercy]

So I guess it is a fake. I got really excited when I saw the letter and I started doing tons of research on it. Well at least I got a good laugh from it.

Audrey Stauffer

[aghadowey]

So I guess it is a fake. I got really excited when I saw the letter and I started doing tons of research on it. Well at least I got a good laugh from it.

Audrey Stauffer

You never said where you found the letter, etc. If it was merely something you found online rather than a family possession you really should have stated that in the beginning.

[hurworth]

The timing is out for this Ellen Moriarty to be the ancestor in our tree 

[thegreatpercy]

It was in my family's possession. But after reading the articles, I think it might be a fake. Now I could be wrong but that's the direction it is headed. Ive looked and I haven't found this Herbert.

Audrey Stauffer

[ShaunJ]

"These Hughie O'Toole-type letters originated from Tommy Higgins dob e1913-dod e1980 Florida. He created them based on ones his parents used to receive from relatives still in Ireland.

When Tommy worked for Pan Am in Miami during ~1937-~1951, he circulated such parodies amongst his fellow-employees. Just before he left the Airways, it published a collection of his works, as in-flight reading material for its passengers. From time to time around various St. Paddy's Days, this one seems to get re-circulated.

Some people, upon getting a copy, think it’s so humorous; they tuck it away with their personal papers. After they die, their heirs discover it, and mistake it as being from one of their real relatives - Just like our family did!"

https://www.ancestry.ie/boards/localities.britisles.ireland.crk.general/9129.3/mb.ashx