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I have just had a
letter from Aylesbury &
can write. She sends her
love to all the 'rebelly crew'
& wants a lot of gossip to
amuse her. But of course
it must be absolutely non-
political. Do you think any
of the Transport Union people
would care to send her
a message. Could you per-
haps get someone to go to
headquarters there & find out.
I am sure from what she
said she would love a
nice friendly message from
them. If you haven't time
Miss French Mullen might
perhaps manage? She finds
Aylesbury very lonely after
Mountjoy where there were
seagulls & pigeons & a black
spaniel with long sillky ears
& a nice convict baby & a
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melodion & a man who
played Irish airs on a bugle
behind a wall & nice soft
Irish voices everywhere.
But she had a lovely passage
journey & looked out at the
sea through a sunny port-
hole & saw an air ship.
And the garden is nice
at Aylesbury. She made pens
out of rooks tail feathers at
Mountjoy, she found in the
garden much better for black
& white words than most pens.
She says at Aylesbury they
exercise round & round in
a ring, Come old hunters in
the summer & pass a splendid
bed of carrots. The hollyhocks
are beautiful. Please collect any gossip or
mesages you can think of
& send them to me for her. Haste fi.
This is an undated and unaddressed letter from Dr. Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955), to an
unnamed person. In this letter, Dr Lynn states that she has just received a letter
from a person in Aylesbury Prison. The Aylesbury prisoner sends her love to all the
'rebelly crew', and asks for entertaining gossip. Lynn suggests that the recipient
was happier in Mountjoy Gaol. Lynn notes, however, that the prisoner had a pleasant
journey across the Irish Sea.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.