Sophie O'Brien Descriptive List (Ref. PR25)

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about the persecution of the Jews in Germany. Punishment must come- but now must we wait’. 2pp 24 26 November 1938 Letter from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. Sends ‘hearty thanks for welcome letter and article in Irish Press’. Mentions typescript sent to publishers. 2pp 25 7 December 1938 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Friend’. She is pleased the Irish Press is publishing so much of William O'Brien’s book. Mentions possible publishers of her work. 4pp 26 1 February 1939 Letter from Sophie O'Brien to ‘My dear John’. She has written to Michael Doran and Mrs. Walsh. ‘I think it is only for you I could have done such a thing’. Mentions an Irish appeal for refugees and a manuscript she asked Gill to send. ‘There is so much real tragedy all around, one is ashamed to think so much of one’s own little literary interests’. 3pp 27 30 April 1939 Letter, from Sophie O'Brien, Eplessier par Paix, Somme, France, to ‘My dear Captain Lucey’. Mentions visit to London, ‘the political news seems somewhat better and we are hoping the clouds of war will lift…’. As long as England, France and the U.S.A. ‘stand firm, we may hope to be spared the worse’. She has heard no news from