Letter from Jeannie Adams (d. 1936), to her mother Mary Adams (d. 1942). In the letter Jeannie writes that it is just a short line to say that she is well. She asks if her mother has heard from her brother and remarks that she thinks they are 'having a very hard time'. The letter also refers to the fighting that took place in Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916. Jeannie refers to the soldiers that have been sent from England and Belfast to put down the rebellion. Jeannie Adams, born Jane Adams, later emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, where she died in 1936. During the Great War, her brother John Adams (1890-1971), served with the 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. He spent the winter of 1915-16 in the trenches near the Somme valley. John Adams was wounded two months before the Battle of the Somme and spent Christmas 1916 in a camp in Tipperary. After returning to the Western Front in early 1917, he was involved in the Battle of Messines and further fighting in Ypres (Passchendaele). He was seriously wounded in October 1918, a few weeks before the end of the war.