Letter to Diarmid Coffey, 12 October 1916 Letters 1916-1923

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This letter was written by Jane Coffey, née L'Estrange (1857-1921), to her son, Hugh Diarmid Coffey (1888 - 1964). Diarmid joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and became secretary of the Irish National Volunteers after the organisation split in 1915. Although not involved in the 1916 Rising, he feared he would be arrested for his involvement with the Irish Volunteers and his known Sinn Féin sympathies. In this letter Jane asks Diarmid about work and tells him of her activities from the previous day in North Stoke.

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 & talks much of revenge. I suggested E's idea that faults are always copied in times of war — yr mother Tangridge House Near Bath (3 miiles) Oct 12.16 Dearest D. I sent you yesterday as usual in a great hurry & I fear insufficiently addressed — so send this today. Edward Carpenter's letter which I enclose is good & might interest the Storkleys. The Chronicle seems the most enlightened of the London papers. I see the I.T. is at it again — so am glad I wrote & hope others will — Tell me how they feel. How have you got on in work — & have you done any for Lord Monteagle? — & I was much interested in the Storkleys & Glengarriff was Tiny there? First she would come to us on her way over — I've not seen her for so long — we spent yesterday at North Stoke — lunched in the Gibbs & tead with groups, an awfully nice village & church tho' not up to the lovely little church here. where the monument is dated 1300, or rather towards the end of that century & is a beautifully proportioned building with rich carvings all over it — I am writing to T.P. Gill today & say that I have asked you to send on E Carpenters letter. So do. It is very good to circulate it. & it will please T.P. to hear from you & make him remember his promises re. her work — If you think the other worth send it too — I think the Storkleys wd like E.C.'s I am sure he wd say more but hardly does in present war feelings over here. I made E & H read it as they are pretty uncompromising Bath, UK Letter to Diarmid Coffey, 12 October 1916Letter from Diarmid Coffey to Jane Coffey, 16 October 1916Letter from Jane Coffey to her son Diarmid Coffey, 16 October 1916