1 P41/4/6/15 Labby
Draperstown
Co Derry 20.6.23

Dear Mrs Daly,
I received your
letter allright yesterday & I wish
to thank you for the photo and
the letters enclosed. The photo
is a very good one, and the
letters are beautiful, although
sad. They are the works of a
saint. Dear Mrs Daly dont
mourn for Charlie as he is in
Heaven, in Pearse's Brigade,
rather be proud you had a
son to die for Ireland. We are sorry to hear of 2 your other boys being in jail
but we trust they will be
released soon. My brother Joe
done 8 months in Derry prison.
He was sentenced to 6 mts but was
kept for 2 months longer, that
is the sort of justice l we get
up here. I know a man
Jim Kelly of Straw, Draperstown,
a relation of the late Dr Ferran
who is on Craigs prison ship
the Argenta for the last 13
months without any charge being
preferred against him & the
question is when they will
be released. But bad as the
specials are they would not
shoot anyone for carrying a
revolver, but the F.S.is setting
them a good example 3 I see times are still unsettled
down South . To tell the
truth, I dont read the papers
we get up here, as they just
give the F.S. side of things,
and therefore are not to be
credited. So I am a bit
ignorant of the situation in
Southern Ireland. In a sense we have peace
up here, but what prospects?
We are getting leave to live,
nothing more. We dare not
have a dance or party because
of Curfew. We were all curfewed
at a party in Mrs Kelly's Labby
on the 8th of April I hid upstairs
& they did not find me but they got
my name aftterwards, We were
just find fined in 2/6 & costs 4 The crops up here are not very
promising especially the oat crop
which has come abraird, to
disappear again, There is no price
for produce, eggs 1/ per doz. butter
10d per pound & in April you could
get a load of potatoes from big
farmers for 9d as there was no sale,
for them, and they wanted their fields
cleared for ploughing. So that
is of some prosperity for Ulster. I think I will finish up now.
I enclose o a memoriam card. It is
not a very good one, but we must
take what we get. Best Wishes
from Yours Sincerely Maire Ni Dhonnghaile