Letter from Mary McEvoy to Agnes Sweetman, 17 May 1916

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Letter from Mary McEvoy to Agnes Sweetman, 17 May 1916

1 Drumbaragh May the 17 Madam Miss Honoria
Miss Alicia are
Well have been Out
It a fine day
We are all glad the
master is home Your obed servant Mary McEvoy 2 PS Christina
wished me to say
she is getting on
well with house work 3 Mrs Sweetman
47 Merrion Square
Dublin

The letter is from Mary McEvoy, servant in the Drumbaragh Estate in Kells, County Meath, to Agnes Sweetman, wife of politician John Sweetman (1844-1936) who owned the estate. It informs Agnes that her daughters, Honoria and Alicia, are well and have been out in the fine weather. They are glad that the Master, John Sweetmanis home and Christina is getting on well with her housework. He had been imprisoned after the Easter Rising.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__5603.html)