Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Emily Maude Chenevix Trench

This work was originally published by Maynooth University in Ireland in 2017. In 2026 this data, stored in a relational database was extracted and converted into this TEI/XML document.

 Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Vienna, AT 2026

This is an open access work licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Letter from Emily Maude Chenevix Trench (1874-1937) to Lady Clonbrock (1840-1928). Trench writes to thank Clonbrock for her letter and states that she has enclosed a post card from private Michael Sweeney, a soldier on the front, who the author was waiting to hear from. Trench goes on to state that she is unsure if Sweeney has received what she has sent him, however she notes that there is often a delay and that they are delivered several at a time. Trench also notes that she spoke with a Dublin Fusilier who is in Switzerland, noting that he claimed it was like being in another world. Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton) was the wife of Luke Gerald Dillon (1834-1917), the 4th Baron of Clonbrock, Co. Galway and the daughter of Lord Crofton of Mote Park (Edward Henry Churchill Crofton, 3rd Baron), Co. Roscommon. Aged 75 at the outbreak of war, Lady Clonbrock, worked closely with the Irish Women's Association to send basic necessities to Irish POWs. Many of her care packages went to members of the Connaught Rangers imprisoned in Limburg near Cologne.

 National Library of Ireland Clonbrock Estate Papers, Collection List No. 54, Ms. 35,796/10/17 https://letters1916.ie/item/312 English Emily Maude Chenevix Trench 1916-06-13 Broomfield, Camberley, England Augusta Caroline Dillon Female World War I (1914-1918)

The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).

 parcels everyfortnight this IWAadopted IWA heard fromhim May 25 Wrote to Miss T. July 22. As above and returned DSweeney's card June 13.16 Dear Horace Thank you very much for your letter — I didn't answer it f before as I was expecting to hear from Sweeney, and I now enclose a card I have just had from him. 5473 evidently is his number and he writes from the same camp as before and the card though rather confused, seems genuine enough? I can't gather from it if he is getting any parcel beyond the very occasional ones I have sent. 'An Irishwomen's Association' wrote that they had unknown life of him. I believe I could get him 'adopted' not required if you consider he needs it. I know theat blokes in the delivery of parcelsplay there now and then, but of the hundreds I have sent hardly any have gone astraytho often delayed, and as for 20 delivered in several at a time. Today I was delighted to hear from a man in Switzerland, a Dublin Fusilier, who said 'I feel like are in another world.' I should be so glad if you can tell me anything definite about Sweeney I will try Maud Chenevix Trench 1916SweeneyMaud C. Trench Augusta Caroline Dillon Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Letter from J. L. Hay to Lady Clonbrock, 7 January 1916Letter from Private Patrick Furey to Lady Clonbrock, 4 January 1916Letter from Jessie Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 19 April 1916Letter from John J. Thompson to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock, 13 November 1915Letter from Josephine Murray to Lady Clonbrock, 22 May 1916Letter from Elizabeth Francis Neill to Lady Clonbrock, 21 February 1916Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916Letter from Lady Clonbrock to Eliza Chamier, 24 May 1916Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916Letter from Ursula Mahon to Lady Clonbrock, 18 July 1916Letter from Lady Mayo, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Kildare Committee, to Lady Clonbrock, 31 December 1915.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August, 1916.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August 1916.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 29 February 1916.Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 25 February, 1916.Letter from Lady Mayo to Lady Clonbrock, 28 December, 1915.Letter from N. Maxwell, 23 July 1916.Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 23 February, 1916.Letter from Kathleen Lewis, 19 October 1916.Letter from George C. Townshend to Lady Clonbrock, 18 October 1916.Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 26 June 1916Letter from the Marquess of Sligo to Lady Clonbrock, 23 October, 1916.Letter from Florence to Lady Clonbrock, 28 November 1916. Emily Maude Chenevix Trench Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916 Broomfield, Camberley, England Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916