Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Edith Francis Maxwell

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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.

 National Library of Ireland Clonbrock Estate Papers, Collection List No. 54, Ms. 35,796/10/6 https://letters1916.ie/item/322 English Edith Francis Maxwell 1916-06-22 Corduff House, Lusk, County Dublin, Ireland Augusta Caroline Dillon Female World War I (1914-1918)

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 Corduff House Lusk Co. Dublin June 22nd Dear Madam I would be so grate- ful if you find out for me if a Pte Matthew James 2.nd Connaught 8056 Rangers Cellilager ZX Hanover is on the list of prisoners helped by the County Fund. We know his people are not in a position to help him his father & mother are drunkards in the slums of Dublin, another brother was wounded & the two younger ones who were working here in the summer with my brother enlisted in the Dublin Fusiliers since. My sister & I send him occasional parcels but are not able to do more than that, as we had 2 other Connaught Rangers prisoners before we heard he was a prisoner & don't like to give up the other men, Bdm, Hurt & Cpl Leach though they are Englishmen as they are so grateful for what we send. Poor men they are terribly to be pitied. Yrs truly (Miss) h. Maxwell. 1916 Miss Maxwell June 26 re M James, 8056, C.R. not in Galway but on I.W.A. list a Lady in Eng. sends to him through them Corduff House, Lusk, County Dublin, Ireland Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916 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. Edith Francis Maxwell Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916