Letter from Susan Fitzgerald (d. 1980) to Michael Gorman. The letter refers mainly to arranging one of their secret meetings as Michael will be back from Dublin. She writes that can only meet if the weather is fine. Susan also refers to a dance in Maryborough (now Portaoise) and a letter from a professor in Albert College.Michael Gorman was one of a large Catholic family living at a farm in Ballinalug, County Laois (then Queen's County). Susan Fitzgerald 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.