Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell (b.1874) to Lady Clonbrock (1840-1928). Maxwell writes to Lady Clonbrock asking if a Private Matthew James is on the list of prisoners receiving aid from the Irish Women's Association. Maxwell explains that the Private's family are not in the position to send out parcels and she and her sister can no longer afford to send aid to James as they already send parcels to two other men and do not want to forget about them as they are very grateful.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. Edith Francis Maxwell née Battersby, the eldest of seven children, had a number of brothers serving in the Great War. Her brother Augustus Wolfe Battersby was gazetted to the 4th battalion of the Connaught Rangers. Battersby was killed in action during a combined Anglo-French campaign against the German colony of Cameroon in the summer of 1915.