1 41 Wolverhampton Rd
Stafford. Sat: 7.10.16 Dear Mr Ryan, Thanks very much
for your letter. I am sure you
must feel a little sad that your
holiday is over but perhaps it has
been almost long enough. I was awfully glad to hear Miss
Cregan is still in Ireland. I think
she would have been brokenhearted
to come so far away. I may be going
to London for a short stay next month &
I was going to ask her to come & see me
then if she cared too - However I wish
you would give me her address as
I promised to get her some pc's & they 2 have only just arrived. All friends here are terribly
sorry for the boys in camp because
they are having such a dreadful time.
We do wish they would bring them
back for the winter. Fr. Moore heard from
Mr Collins lately but it was not very cheerful.
Jo did not hear from Mert for a long time
until just lately & she says his letters
were stopped because he tried to tell her
about it. The last time I heard from
Miss Pearse she had not heard either -
so perhaps it is the same explanation.
Jo sends me some of the cuttings from the
papers, I will forward to Mrs D. Figgis
because she is a great agitator. Of
course most of her energies up to the
present have been concerned with
Reading. Jo has not been to Wales
yet but I am always urging her to
do so because when she does she has
promised to go come in here & stay with me -
& we have an awfully warm corner
for her - but it is rather a long way for her
now as she is not returning to Liverpool. 3 Do you remember Denis Daly
perjuring himself by saying he could
not write first because he did not know
how to begin or end & had no previous
experience to go upon. Well the
initial difficulty has evidently
proved too much for him so I have
kept up rather a desultory one sided
correspondence. I really must write
him again about some of the
"Kerryisms" in hopes it may cheer
him - it is difficult to imagine him
in the dumps. They nick-named
me "Why so" down there & teased
me dreadfully, so if he had been
there as well I should hardly
have survived. Well - your friends were
awfully good to me in Dublin.
I really did intend to write you
before & tell you all about it so please forgive
delay. I went to see Mrs Pearse a
few times - she is quite close to you now,
isn't she? They gave me a book belonging 4 to Mr Pearse. R.I.P out of his study at
Rathfarnham - & some other keepsakes
& I am certain I shall treasure them
more than anything. I am glad that
I may be going to see her again soon. I am coming to Dublin at the
end of October. Jo has a sister
who is a professor in a College there,
She has only been a little while & finds it rather lonely. She wants me
to stay with her so I am almost
certain to be there - at any rate
over the weekend - so I hope I
see you. I heard that the
moustache has gone & that you
looked a ruffian at Stafford &
I would not know you now you
are civilized - Perhaps so but I would
have known your sister - she is so
like you. Goodbye now. I remain,
Yours very sincerely Kathleen Teebay.