1 21st Nov 22 Miss K Allman
Providence Convent
Wood Green
London 2 P41/10/1/7 Dromboe Castle
Stranorlar
Tirconaill 21st Nov 22 A Chara Though I'm not quite certain of your
new address (you ommitted letting me have it)
still I'm chancing this note in the hope that it
will reach you alright. I know that you
must be anxious to know if I got your
letters. I'm glad to be able to tell you that
they have all reached me safely. Twas only
this morning that I received that you wrote on
the 6th inst & the other written on the eve
of your departure from London. Rather a
coincidence! wasn't it that I should
get them on the same day as you entered
the convent? I also got the books
& accompanying note as well as your
reply to my first letter written from here,
only on Thursday last or else I would
have acknowledged them before you
left London. As you know all letters & 3 2 parcels to us were held on account of our
refusal to work, but seeing that their
treatment of us hadn't the desired effect
they gave it up and so on Thursday we
got back to our Status quo & got what-
ever parcels & letters were due to us (An
other victory for the Reps!) when you
informed me that you had written on the
6th to the add. which I gave you I was
very much afraid lest it should get lost
on account of my being arrested in the
meanwhile so you can guess how glad
I was when it turned up this morning I
was quite pleased with its contents & with
all the home news which it contained.
The Censor here hadn't the satisfaction of seeing
it or perhaps I wouldn't have got it at
all & that would indeed be a great
pity. I should regret to have missed it for
there was lots of news which I was anxiously
awaiting. It will be a loss to me in future
that I wont be any longer able to get 4 4
way uneasy for the future. Should I by any
chance ever find myself in the same position as
any of the four chaps my only anxiety would
be I get the Sacraments before going. A matter like
that should make anybody anxious and you
know the present attitude of the priests. Pray for
me Katty, that no matter when I die or how
that it shall have the grace of a happy death,
thats all that really matters in the end. As
I informed you already I havent forgotten to
say that little prayer for you. Indeed I have
lots of time for that at present. I am quite
certain that you will be quite content in
your new life, my most sincere wish & prayer
is that you will. I must now wind up I
would not have written so much but I may
not easily get another chance of writing in this
way. You see like the last one I sending it
without the knowledge of my keepers or their
Censor. I dont know how long we shall be
here, but we are having a good enough
time now. I hope that I shall hear from you