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33 Fitzroy Sq My Dear Miss Maloney I dont know if
you will get this letter
because I don't know what
the rules are for interned
people, but I thought I
would chance writing you
a line to say I have seen
my sister since she came
to England and she is
well and cheerful.
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Please tell me if theres
any chance of my
being allowed to see
you and who's the
right person to apply
to. I heard from the Doctor,
Miss Mullen and other
friends this morning
they seem well & cheerful
I hope you are all right
and not having
a bad time. My sister
says man never made
a wall but God threw a
gap in it as an old
woman used to say at home With kindest
remembrances
from Miss Roper &
myself Yours
Eva GB
This is a letter from Eva Selina Gore-Booth (1870-1926) to Helena Molony (1883-1967).
This letter was written while Malony was in prison. Eva Gore-Booth enquires about
Molony and the rules regarding letters and visitors and refers to her sister and other
female prisoners, Dr Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine French-Mullen.Eva Gore-Booth was
a poet, trade unionist, suffragist, and an active social campaigner, mostly on women's
issues, and contributor to the Irish literary revival from the late 1890s. A sister
of Constance Markievicz, she was active in the campaign for a reprieve of Markievicz's
death sentence for her participation in the Easter Rising and for the improvement
of her prison conditions.Helena Molony was a republican, feminist and labour activist.
She was a founder member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann, a member of the Irish Citizen
Army and a close colleague of James Connolly and Countess Markievicz. She was part
of the garrison of rebels who seized City Hall during the Easter Rising and was imprisoned
in Aylesbury prison until December 1916.