1 August 26th 16 A Shéamuis Dhílis Thanks very much
for your letter and for the many
interesting items of news it con—
tained. I can quite well under—
stand what a lively time you have
had since your return to Dublin
and how little chance there was for
correspondence being indulged in.
I was delighted when I learned, only
through a casual remark in a letter
of Kits' that you were free at last.
I had almost begun to fear that
you with Liam and Michael had
been put on the blacklist and
that you too were going to be an
absentee from Tomcoole on the
memorable 16 th of August. It was a
great relief to know then that you at

Ron and I both received the
wedding cake yesterday — for which
many thanks. There was a great run on it Give my regards to Dick when next you meet him 2
At any rate we are going to be present
to do your bit (looks like as if I
should have
on the day of the great matrimonial
double event. Kit sent me a
most interesting and picturesque
description of the event which to
the great delight of all seems to
have been an unbounded success.
— I wonder did poor Nell feel
very bad of her enforced absence.
Have you heard from her since? The widow seems to have
been terribly upset about missing
you the day you called. She has
written to me most voluminously
on the subject several times and
of course I sympathized and con—
soled most tenderly with her on
her loss. Did you see O B. at 3
all before you left the camp. Had
the camps been amalgamated
You must have
felt lonely leaving Gearoid and
Mick C. Were you in the camp
the day I came on here. Do you
remember my namesake who
came here the same day. The poor
fellow has since deleted text been put
into a lunatic asylum — looks
hopeful for some of us eh — or
perhaps you might feel incl—
ined to say some other people you
know should have been put
into a similar place long ago. Had you much talk with P.O C. at the Oireachtas .Did he say
anything as to what he has been
doing with himself for the past four
months — I wonder how he is
managing to make ends meet 4
I read a most interesting
and well written little article by
him in last week's New Ireland,
which someone managed to
slip in here. How do you
know nothing came of that St.
Patrick's night feat. Have you
been making enquiries?
I never thought of asking Noyek
when I saw him in Wandsworth
in June. Did you see any sign
of Power while you were in town. You must have plied your opponents
freely with the wine bottle when you
managed to come out as success—
fully. Kit said in her letter that
'the boys won disgracefully' I must
say I can't see anything disgraceful
in a win of over £5. How did
Jack come off? Did he beat
your record. 5 We had a big burst or blow
out here last night. Some of
the boys have been talking of it
as a banquet. The occasion
was my (21 st) birthday. I
stood the spread which as you
can imagine was not a very
elaborate affair, all the same
for the liquid department I
managed to secure several
bottles of wine — tis true twas
only or mostly white wine of a
poor quality but it was called
and labelled Niersteiner, &
Hochheimer and as the monkey
said 'Anything in hard times',
likewise we had some
Beaune and a fair supply of
Guinness, Bass and Alsopps.
The eatables consisted chiefly 6
7
by the Widow containing a big
cake from Bewleys and a box
of cigarettes arrived in the nick
of time and was a great addition
to the table. Speaking of the Widow
reminds me that I had a
letter and a box of fags from
Pat Campion today and a
similar reminder from Mollie
Birmingham, so you can see
I am being fairly well looked
after. I had a letter from K. Brady
during the week in which she
mentioned that Mairin would
in all probability be coming
over to England this year. Is
this true. If so I would be
really sorry. I sincerely sympathise 8
with anyone who has perforce
to leave Ireland to live in
this Godforsaken land. I was not surprised to
hear of Lily's decision and what
is more I thoroughly approve
of her decision. All I hope is
that she will find the life to her
taste and be happy in it. How are Mother and Father.
I trust they are both in the best of form.
What kind of weather are you
having. It is broken and showery
over here. I trust it keeps fine
in Ireland till all the crops are in. If I am to be here for Christmas — as
some think I'll write and get you to
send something for the Christmas
dinner. Ginger and Cole send kind—
est regards. Do Bhuan Chara Seaghan T