Letter from George C. Townshend to Lady Clonbrock, 18 October 1916. Letters 1916-1923 George C. Townshend

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This is a letter from George C. Townshend to Augusta Caroline Dillon (née Dillon), Lady Clonbrock (1839-1928). Lady Clonbrock was a prominent member of the Irish Women's Association, founded to provide aid and assistance to Irish prisoners of war. The writer is looking for information about two men so that his committee may be able to help them. His committee is in the process of setting up a hostel (for ex-soldiers). He says that they can only help those who want to help themselves and that there will be no room for 'inebriates or other bad cases'. They will be running classes for the men and he expects that there is a lot of interest. He awaits Lady Clonbrock's recommendations which will be 'carefully considered by the Committee'. A note added to the letter (by Lady Clonbrock) indicates her intention to bring the matter before her committee meeting on the following week.

 National Library of Ireland Clonbrock Estate Papers, Collection List No. 54; Ms. 35,796/10/5 https://letters1916.ie/item/1547 English George C. Townshend 1916-10-18 County Club, Cork, Ireland. Augusta Caroline Dillon Male World War I (1914-1918) World War I (1914-1918)

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 AU? Would bring matter before Com-tee Meeting on Wed: Oc br 28 County Club, Cork 18/10/16 Dear Lady Clonbrook, Yr letter addressed to Tipperary has reached me. If you wd let me have the necessary information as to a couple of men I hope to be able to write you that the Committee will be able to help them. We have only just succeeded in getting hold of a reliable ex N.C.O. and his wife to take charge of a Hostel we are opening & which shd be in working order within three weeks. You will of course understand that we can only help men who are conscientiously anxious to help themselves, & that we cannot undertake the responsibility of inebriates or other bad cases. The Commandant of the Depot has given leave for the discharged men, in whom the joint Committee interest themselves, to avail of our classes. The Hostel is being run on as near military lines as is possible in the case of men who are not under actual military discipline, & judging the number of cases we have anxious to avail of its advantages the need must be great. We will be able to help 20 or 25 in first instance, but must make a charge of 10/ for maintenance owing to the heavy drain on our limited resources. On hearing again from you I shall have the recommendations carefully considered by the Committee. Yrs faithfully, George C. Townshend County Club, Cork, Ireland. Letter from George C. Townshend to Lady Clonbrock, 18 October 1916. George C. Townshend Letter from George C. Townshend to Lady Clonbrock, 18 October 1916. Augusta Caroline Dillon Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 13 December 1915Letter from Alfred Gerald Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 1 October 1916Letter from Private M. Cahill to Lady Clonbrock, 17 April 1916Letter from J. L. Hay to Lady Clonbrock, 7 January 1916Letter from Private Patrick Furey to Lady Clonbrock, 4 January 1916Letter from Jessie Crofton to Lady Clonbrock, 19 April 1916Letter from John J. Thompson to Augusta Caroline Dillon, Lady Clonbrock, 13 November 1915Letter from Josephine Murray to Lady Clonbrock, 22 May 1916Letter from Elizabeth Francis Neill to Lady Clonbrock, 21 February 1916Letter from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 13 June 1916Postcard from Maude Chenevix Trench to Lady Clonbrock, 16 May 1916Letter from Lady Clonbrock to Eliza Chamier, 24 May 1916Letter from George Hugh Chetwood Townsend to Lady Clonbrock, 1 April 1916Letter from Edith Francis Maxwell to Lady Clonbrock, 22 June 1916Letter from Emma Armstrong to Lady Clonbrock, 2 August 1916Letter from Ursula Mahon to Lady Clonbrock, 18 July 1916Letter 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 1916Letter from the Marquess of Sligo to Lady Clonbrock, 23 October, 1916.Letter from Florence to Lady Clonbrock, 28 November 1916.