This is a letter from Julia Evans to Mabel FitzGerald (née Washington McConnell) (1884-1958), wife of politician and intellectual Desmond FitzGerald (1888-1947). Mrs. Evans writes to thank Mabel for her 'kind assistance in our great distress'. Her husband had been arrested after the Rising and she sympathises with Mabel having learned that Mr FitzGerald is also under arrest. Mabel was a former governess in London. She later vigorously canvassed her former acquaintances in London's liberal circles for support for Francis Sheehy Skeffington (1878 -1916) during his hunger strike in 1915. Both Mabel and Desmond would serve in the GPO garrison during Easter Week.