Sophie O'Brien Descriptive List (Ref. PR25)

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4pp

17 17 July 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Friend’. She answers his question on her first impressions of Ireland. ‘It was the persecution of Irishmen by Coercion that drew my heart to Ireland. I loved Ireland first I loved William O'Brien after…’. She read of Ireland in the English papers, and found Irish girls delightful, the older women ‘more attractive still’. Remarks on qualities of the Irish and laments at the waste that goes on in Ireland, such as the amount of land unused, and the fact that many women no longer make butter. She ‘does not believe in women in politics…’, one of the subjects on which she disagreed with her husband. 4pp 18 26 July 1938 Letter, from J.O. MacNamara, St. Edwards College, Everton, Liverpool, to ‘My dear Mrs. O’Brien’. Encloses suggestions for changes to her book. He is glad to know she is ‘comfortably situated with the good Nuns’. He is almost recovered from ‘the accident’. Mentions moving school to suburbs from ‘what has become a slum quarter…surrounded by Orangemen’. He hopes O’Brien will find a publisher for her book and thinks that a reader not acquainted with she or her husband may consider it too long. 4pp 19 31 July 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Chez les Dames de St. Marie, 12 Rue de l’Abbé Gregoire, Paris, to ‘My dear Captain Lucy’. She encloses a letter from ‘a dear Christian Brother’ who sent suggested corrections to the text of her book. 4pp