1 Loreto Hall, 77 Stephens Green. 17-6-'16 Dear Jim Thanks ever so
much for your lovely long
letter. It was very good
of you to write again, but I
have a crow to pluck with
you. If you were annoyed
at my having thought that
the Gaelic excursion was
put off on your account, I
was doubly annoyed at
the way you read it. What
I meant was how could
the college run an Irish
excursion this year when
the people who generally do
so are away, and that
we would not enjoy it
under such circumstances.
So now I hope you are
not annoyed any more,
for I am not, because I 2 think you will forgive the
loose phraseology of my
last letter. I heard that
Min has gone to Stafford,
her visit will be a great
pleasure for you and of
course she will give you all
the news. Exams are in full
swing now. They began on
Wednesday last. The pass
degree students are getting
very nice papers. My
exam is not coming up
till Thursday next, when I
am doing pass history so
don't forget the prayers that
day. I really mean that. There is a great picnic
in aid of the Irish
Relief fund on today to
Tallaght. Want of time
is keeping me at home and
I think it is the same
with a lot of others. Everybody 3 is rushed to death now making
up for lost time. Yesterday I
stole a book out of National
Library and when I went in
this morning at about 11 o'clock,
the man accosted me with
'What did you do with Lodge's
history, which you took out
yesterday'. I had to confess
my guilt, whereon Monsieur
the librarian delivered me a
lecture as long as today &
tomorrow, so you may bet I
won't try that trick again. I have just heard there
is a 'National Student'
coming out today. I'll
send it on to brighten up
your hearts when I get it.
I do not know who is acting
editor for Eimear O'Duffy
but I think it is James
Anthony M! How is Des
Ryan? Give him my love.
I began a letter to him but
I couldn't find anything to
say and as two or three 4 other girls were writing to him
I said I would put it off
for while. Frank Murray
did his Latin exam, I believe.
You know he is doing Hons
Degree in Sept and had
to take pass Latin. Everybody
though he would not do it
till next year as he did not
come back to College. I am going home I
think on Friday next. Mother
Eucharia refuses to keep
anybody on who has done
her exam. So write to me
soon or if you have not
written before then, get my
home address from Dan. You seem to have a
rather good time now. It is
grand that there are so
many College girls going boys
there. Excuse this blot but
Eileen McGrane is trying to
persuade me to go to
picnic today and I don't
know I am writing.
Eileen is only one going 5 from here. I think Anita
Connolly has not written to
you yet. At present she is
a fixture in National Library
trying to stuff in a year's
work into a few days, as
indeed the most of us are.
She says she will write to
you in a few days and
Maureen says the same.
Both send all sorts of
nice messages. Goodbye with best wishes
Yrs very sincerely Madge Calnan P.S.Write soon and give
us all the news. Dan has
not sent me on buttons, but
I suppose he will soon. You are
very good to get them and when I get rich
I am going to get one of them
dipped in gold & made into
a brooch for myself.
M.