Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August 1916.
Co.Dublin. Dear Lady Clonbrock I am so sorry to trouble you again, but I
have been asked to look after
8105 Pte James Gaffney by his former
employer. As I want if possible not to overlap
can you tell me what is being done for him I have been asked particularly to find out whether
he is getting bread. Sincerely yours Elle Mari Goff. 2 From Mrs Goff
Att. James Gaffney
tell her that she
must write to G.W.A.
& give more
information.
This is a letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff, honorary secretary of the Dundrum Prisoners of War Organisation, to Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton), Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Mrs. Goff had a similar role to Lady Clonbrock in the Irish Women's Association, formed in London in the Spring of 1915 for the purpose of providing food and comforts for prisoners of war belonging to Irish Regiments. Mrs. Goff has been asked to look after a named POW by his former employer. She normally looks after Royal Dublin Fusiliers and here she is asking lady Clonbrock what is being done for him - presumably she is writing to Lady Clonbrock because the prisoner is a Connaught Ranger. She is trying to avoid overlap between the two organisations. In a note on the back of the letter, Lady Clonbrock writes that she told Mrs. Goff to check with the IWA.
How to cite
Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1535.html)
- Place
- Belfort House, Dundrum, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
- Mentioned in
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August, 1916.
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August 1916.
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 29 February 1916.
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 25 February, 1916.
- Mentioned in
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- Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915
- Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916
- Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916
- Letter from J. L. Hay to Lady Clonbrock, 7 January 1916
- Letter from Private Patrick Furey to Lady Clonbrock, 4 January 1916
- Letter from Jessie Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 19 April 1916
- Letter from John J. Thompson to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock, 13 November 1915
- Letter from Josephine Murray to Lady Clonbrock, 22 May 1916
- Letter from Elizabeth Francis Neill to Lady Clonbrock, 21 February 1916
- Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916
- Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916
- Letter from Lady Clonbrock to Eliza Chamier, 24 May 1916
- Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916
- Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916
- Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916
- Letter from Ursula Mahon to Lady Clonbrock, 18 July 1916
- Letter from Lady Mayo, Royal Dublin Fusiliers Kildare Committee, to Lady Clonbrock, 31 December 1915.
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August, 1916.
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 12 August 1916.
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 29 February 1916.
- Letter from Mrs. Arthur Goff to Lady Clonbrock, 25 February, 1916.
- Letter from Lady Mayo to Lady Clonbrock, 28 December, 1915.
- Letter from N. Maxwell, 23 July 1916.
- Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 23 February, 1916.
- Letter from Kathleen Lewis, 19 October 1916.
- Letter from George C. Townshend to Lady Clonbrock, 18 October 1916.
- Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 26 June 1916
- Letter from the Marquess of Sligo to Lady Clonbrock, 23 October, 1916.
- Letter from Florence to Lady Clonbrock, 28 November 1916.