This is a letter from Emma Armstrong to Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Crofton), Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Lady Clonbrock was a prominent member of the Irish Women's Association, founded in 1915 to provide aid and comfort to Irish prisoners of war. This letter concerns wounded WW1 soldiers. While they are initially on a high rate of pension, the writer advises that cut are imminent and she is hoping that a local relief fund will give supplementary assistance. She discusses a number of individuals, describing their injuries (mostly amputees), their current pensions and the likely reductions, their suitability/willingness to work. Some apparently have problems with alcohol and some have overcome these problems. Some may be suitable for farm work and the writer suggests that others might be trained in basket making and re-caning chairs in order to supplement their income but "it will be difficult to get them to do anything". She has been told that if these men are brought together in Dublin for training they would be likely to go on a 'drinking burst'. A note on the letter, presumably added by Lady Clonbrock, suggests that the wounded men were from Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.