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All Communications should be
addressed to ' The Governor,'
and not to any official by name. H. M. Prison, Dartmoor 5 June 1916 SirMadam re T. D. Fitzgerald I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2 nd inst
and to inform you in reply that the above named will
be allowed to receive two letters you
have written I am,
Sir,Madam
Your obedient Servant, E Reade
Governor. Mrs Fitzgerald 2 Loretto Villas Bray Ireland
This letter is from the governor of Dartmoor prison, Major E. Reade, to Mabel FitzGerald
(née Washington McConnell) (1884-1958), wife of politician and intellectual Desmond
FitzGerald (1888-1947). Referring to her letter of 2 June, the Reade advises Mrs.
FitzGerald that her husband will be allowed the letter she has written.Mabel Fitzgerald
was the wife of Irish Volunteer Desmond Fitzgerald. 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 during his hunger strike in 1915.
Both Mabel and Desmond would serve in the GPO garrison during Easter Week.