Letter from John Pedder to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 2 August 1916 Letters 1916-1923 John Pedder

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This is a letter to Dr Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955) from John Pedder, of the Home Office at Whitehall. Dr Kathleen Lynn was a medical practitioner, a suffragist, a nationalist, and a revolutionary. Lynn was Chief Medical Officer of the Irish Citizen Army during Easter 1916, and was a part of the City Hall garrison, of which she took command of the garrison after the death of Seán Connolly on the first day of the Rising. After independence, Lynn dedicated much time and energy towards the improvement of public health, and played a significant role in the eradication of tuberculosis in Ireland. In this letter, Pedder informs Dr Lynn that she has been released from an undertaking she had given on July 8. The undertaking had required her to leave Ireland for Bath, England, as soon as her ill sister had recovered her health. The envelope of the letter has Dr Lynn's Rathmines address crossed out and replaced with her Bath address, suggesting that she had already returned to England.

 Military Archives of Ireland Brother Allen Collection, Kathleen Lynn Collection, IE/AL/KL/1/26 https://letters1916.ie/item/2994 English John Pedder 1916-08-02 Home Office, Whitehall, Westminster, London, England Kathleen Lynn 6 Duke Street, Bath, Somerset, England Male Personal Relations Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Personal Relations

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 HOME OFFICE, WHITEHALL. August 2nd, 1916 314,915/14 Madam, I am directed by the Secretary of State to refer to previous correspondence with regard to the permission given to you to return to Ireland to nurse you sister and to inform you that you are released from the undertaking which you gave on the 6th July to return to Bath as soon as your sister ceased to require your services and that you may remain in Ireland. I am, Madam, Your obedient Servant, John Pedder Dr. Kathleen Lynn, 9, Belgrave Road, Rathmines, Dublin. ON HIS MAJESTY'S SERVICE Dr Kathleen Lynn, 6 Duke Street 9. Belgrave Road, Bath Rathmines Sommerset Dublin. England HOME OFFICE. John Pedder Letter from John Pedder to the Under-Secretary, 2 August 1916Letter from John Pedder to Matthew Nathan, the Under-Secretary for Ireland, 6 April 1916Letter from John Pedder to the Under Secretary of Ireland, 27 March, 1916Letter from John Pedder to Matthew Nathan, 10 April 1916Letter from John Pedder to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 2 August 1916 Kathleen Lynn Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to the Deputy Adjutant General at Parkgate, 26 May 1916Letter from Maud Joynt to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 28 May 1916Letter to Dr Kathleen Lynn from the Assistant Provost Marshal, 28 May 1916Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to Miss Carney, 6 June 1916Letter from Robert Childers Barton to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 11 July 1916Letter from Major C. Harold Heathcote to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 13 October 1916Letter from Kathleen Lynn to Nancy O'Rahilly, 23 November 1916.Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn to Dora, 31 October 1916Letter from John Pedder to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 2 August 1916Letter from Dr Kathleen Lynn, [post-April 1916] Home Office, Whitehall, Westminster, London, England Letter from John Pedder to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 2 August 1916 6 Duke Street, Bath, Somerset, England Letter from John Pedder to Dr Kathleen Lynn, 2 August 1916