Sophie O'Brien Descriptive List (Ref. PR25)

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Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My Dear Friend’. She is glad he is starting work and that he feels ‘as I do about Jews & Irish’. She remarks how nice that his wife is reading with him, ‘I do believe in that union of intellect as most helpful- we women feel things in a different way, more acutely perhaps less deeply…’. Mentions disagreement with her husband about women in politics, ‘I wished to keep them for better work’. Remarks on the Irish Republicans taking their inspiration from William O'Brien, who was ‘more indulgent to the young than I was. Some were so over bearing.’ Notes that William O'Brien’s book on Parnell was not as good as it might have been as he was ill when he composed it. 5pp 11 9 June 1938 Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Captain Lucy’. Concerns letter from Jack Nagle [brother in law] which ‘has thrown me in perfect dismay’, as ‘the book he sketches…is another book from the one I had in mind…the less you will talk about the book to others, the better…’. 2pp 12 10 June 1938 Letter from Sophie O’Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. Concerns her recollections of her wedding day 48 years previously. ‘I was perfectly calm. I had not one anxiety about the future…he was much more worried…he dreaded for me the change of life.’ 5pp 13 15 June 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. ‘Your letter reassures me fully…I like to know you