1 Wandsworth, London, 18-6-16 A Shéamuis Dhílis Thanks for your letter. I was
glad to get it and to learn you were in great
form. Gearoid says you have an infernal
cheek to be traducing his character in such a
fashion. Anyhow he is completely reformed
now. He hasn't touched a drop for nearly
two months and as for O'Brien he is in one
respect at all events a perfect model,
the poor boy has now left us. He and Cole
with about 70 others went off on Friday last
to an internment camp at Frongoch, Balla,
N. Wales. Twenty more are following them
tomorrow and the rest of us — about another
70 — expect to be removed from here a
day or two later. We don't know yet if we
are all going to the same camp, some of the
authorities here say yes and some say no. We must
only wait and find out. I do trust we will be
all together wherever we go. It would be so very pleasant
to see all the old faces together again. Min came over to London Friday morning
and came up here that day and yesterday too with
B.D. and one of the Lynch's. I was very glad to see herself 2 and the others. Fr. Paul by special permit from the
War Office got in to see me today and we had twenty
minutes or so together. I expect to see him again
tomorrow. She intends to go on to Stafford, Knuts
ford, and Wales maybe on her way back so I hope
she will see yourself and Michael. By all accounts the prisoners in
all the other places seem to enjoy better treatment
and greater liberty than we do here. We have only
four hours at very most together daily and even then
cannot smoke, and if a fellow was heard whistling
or as much as humming an air in his cell he is threate
ned with bread and water and all sorts of pain and
penalties. What a length of time it takes for a
letter to reach too. For us the minimum seems to be
four days. Isn't as bad with you? I had
a letter from Tomcoole on Saturday which took
11 days to get here. H. Dixon here had a letter from W. Kelly
a day or two ago. It appears he is working in some
dispensary in the Mile End Road. He has promised to
call to see us here. He was a friend of Joe Dixon's I
believe. Are you expecting to be able to go in
for your final in October — I hope you won't be dis
appointed. Still no word as to Nell's release, Remember me to all friends in Stafford Do bhuan chara
Seaghán Z