Letter from Susan Fitzgerald (d.1980) to Michael Gorman. The letter card was written while Susan was working as a voluntary nurse for the Voluntary Aid Detachment (V.A.D.), a voluntary organisation providing nursing to wounded British army soldiers, in Dublin. She refers mainly to being kept in owing to an illness and her desire to get out again. She also asks Michael to send her love to 'Stevie', Albert Stephenson, who was a staff lecturer in the Albert College.Michael Gorman was one a large Catholic family living at a farm in Ballinalug, County Laois (then Queen's County). Susan Fitzgerald (d. 1980) was one a Church of Ireland family living in Raheenahone House near Stradbally, County Laois, also in the Slieve Bloom mountains. At the time the letter was written they were involved in a courtship but owing to the religious difference the love affair had to be kept secret. Eventually both were in Dublin: he in the Albert Agricultural College in Glasnevin (where he eventually became Professor of Agricultural Botany and Biochemistry) and she as a volunteer nurse in the Royal Hospital in Baggot Street. They eventually went to London to marry.