Letter from Jeannie Adams (d. 1936), to her mother Mary Adams (d. 1942). Jeannie begins this letter by apologising to her mother for the long time that it has taken her to write. She writes that she has been very busy and has never worked so hard before in her life. Jeannie writes that it had been her intention to send her brother, John (1890-1971), a parcel for Easter but she could not find the time. She asks if her mother could send him a parcel and writes that she is sure 'he will be lonely'. Jeannie Adams, born Jane Adams, later emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, where she died in 1936. During the Great War her brother, John Adams, 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.