1 3 Cross Kevin St. 6 th July 1916 My Dear Jim, What you must think of me is beyond my
imagination, never having written you a line yet, well
anyway the old saying holds good in this case 'Better
late than never', I hope you don't collapse with
joy (!!!!!!!) when this reaches you, if you think it might
be too much for you I would advise you to only
read about one paragraph a day !!! As you see
by the address we are living in Kevin (Castle!!! as
I call it ) St. you remember that charming spot
we brought you down to one Saturday we caught
you giving the 'Evil Eye' to all the 'nice things' in
Grafton St !!! of course we only let you look at the
outside, for fear if you came inside you might
get dazzled with the splendour and luxury ( I.O.J)
or, more likely, get lost particularly as Maureen
was there!! now, now Jim, I didn't say it might
be an echo of ' HarringtonCollege
Dance', it was a wonder you didn't get a bill
from the owners for a new step on the stairs!!!
or for that matter a whole flight!!!!!! of course that
was last year, this year I suppose you would 2
like a little change!! I believe Maureen's 'nose
is out of joint' you're awfully fickle, some
priest came into your sister a few days ago
and told her about some girl who 'had a
few very affectionate letters from Jim'. A
certain friend told me she felt horribly
'taken in' !!!! now take a little advice from an
'auld pal' and don't be breaking hearts!! but
excuse me, a new idea has just crossed my
mind, perhaps you are only just practicing,
as I daresay when you come home you will
be writing these 'billet doux' to the wardresses!! Now to change the subject, we had a couple
of great picnics for the National Aid 'any amount
doing' !!! and the cream of the joke was that I
got a new dress, the secret of it was that I was
in great humour and wanted to 'knock down some
thing good', but it was white voile (you that sort of
soft stuff!) with enormous big dark blue dots on it,
you call could positively hear me coming in it,
but all the fellows called me ' pierrot' and wanted
to know where was my cap, weren't they
real cheeky!!! I felt horribly put out (I don't think).
Godfrey (I'm sure the spelling is wrong but never
mind!) O'Donnell was there and he's the best gas
out, I enjoyed him immensely, I remember one 3 time I was up in the diggs with Maureen, the
time she was on the Leinster Road (certainly you
remember all things connected with that) and she
showed me the University College book, and there
was a programme of a concert and in it and our
friend G. O'Donnell was down for a song 'I am
a little Catholic' the underlined word written in
Italics. I absolutely howled when I saw it, knowing
the little Catholic. Of course all this must be fearfully
dry for the censor, what a pity I haven't time to
make a sketch of G. O'D so that he might join in
the joke. Don't forget to give my love to anyone in
the camp that you think I might know or who
might know me, especially S. Peeson, D McCullogh,
Jack Gogan ( I know him since he was a kid!!). I
will be writing to them very soon. Maureen will be in
this evening, that is provided she dosent go teaing
with a certain architect, Mums the word now Jim,
just a few little words dropped and I added up
one and one and made two, I may after a while add
two and two and possibly make four, so I would
advise you not to loose any time coming home or
the bird might have flown, and I guess you
wouldn't like your little heart to be broken!!!
would you????!!! I will be doing the Feil Ceoil on the
17 th to 22 nd or so of this week, month so if you would say
4 a weenie, weenie prayer for me I am sure I
will do better than I would if you didn't say it. I must now ring off, I am sure you
are bored stiff by this, my love to those I told
you (provided they accept it!! if not you can keep it
all, along with your own share, for yourself, what
joy for you!!!!!!!) From
Yours sincerely. Maudie Davin. P.S. Please excuse my bad writing and mistakes
but as usual I am in a hurry.
M. D. Mrs. Frank Aiken