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To P.I. at Tullamore
A.H.
20/5/16 I done JLD 19/5
I despd 19/5 Hewitt &Chapman, Solicitors, Telephone 5061 Central, 32, Nicholas
lane, London, E.C. May 16 1916 Dear Sir Mary Keegan a
domestic servant in my employ
owing to family bereavement
went to her home at Ballykeenahan
Rahan, Tullamore, about three
weeks before the recent outbreak
and intended to return on the
Saturday before Easter. Of course
she was unable to do so and I
had a wire from her yesterday
stating that she could not get
back here. Can anything be done
to facilitate her passage? I understand
her home is some few miles west of
Tullamore & the rails were intercepted
with forces to the out break. I am Emma L. Chapman
Please report to police
the issue of necessary certificate
for this girl
E.O.F
18/5/16
This is a letter from Mrs E. L. Chapman, wife of a London based solicitor, writing
to an unknown recipient. She was writing to ask if there was anything that could be
done to attempt to give a domestic servant by the name of Mary Keegan passage back
to her employer. Keegan says that because of the outbreak of the Rising she is finding
it difficult to return.