1 In replying to this letter, please write on the envelope :- Number 3134 Name Blythe E Brixton Prison 8 th June 1916. Dear Mabel, I was glad
to get your letter yesterday.
I thought you must have
moved from Bray and
I didn't know what
address would find
anybody or who had
been left at large that
I could write to. I
wrote to Helen but a letter 2 apparently takes more than
a fortnight in going and
coming; so I have had no
news of any of my friends
since the postcard I got
from Jack a few days
after I was arrested. I
was surprised when I
read about Desmond because
Jack said he was all right.
Seven-and-a-half years would
be a devilish long time if
he had to serve it all;
but I don't suppose there's
any question of that. I was informed a couple of 3 days ago that Kate had
written asking if she could
visit me, so I shall expect she'll
be round here on Saturday.
I should have written
to her but I had not
her address. I was in the
same plight in regard to
Arthur who was down to
see me the day before I
was arrested. Someone has been sending
in my dinner since Sunday.
I have money on hands but
I took the prison food
because I knew I should have 4 to revert to it in a few weeks
and might then want the
money for something else. In
any case, you will remember
that it suits me and I
thrive upon it so I suffer no hardship.
I got the 'Weekly Irish Times' I
suppose from you a couple of days
ago. ItI was glad to have it
for there were several items of
news in it that I had not
seen before. I have been getting the
'Independent' fairly regularly
from Helen since Desmond's
sentence was announced. I also
get 'The Times' every day. Before
that, however, I was nearly
a fortnight without papers. So that
a lot of people I knew may have
been killed or imprisoned without my
knowing. Yours Ernest Blythe Mrs.Fitzgerald, Bray