Scope and Content: (1) MS Letter. 'Delighted to get your letter & hope you now feel OK after sojourn at Youghal...', says he would prefer Myrtleville. Says "this place is 'not all that bad'- compared to Dartmoor...thanks to all our good friends we have plenty to eat & plenty to smoke, we are putting down the time well. A thousand thanks for the supply of tobacco- via D.W.D...enough & to spare...'. Refers to; visit of Mr. Curtis, Jim Curtin's father in law; getting rid of backache; visit of Denis tomorrow, letter going by " 'special post' from here"; he 'will give your message to Kit'; hopes to take a trip South before the Summer is over. 'Tom of course enjoys a swim in the morning before leaving for the city...My love to the girls...'.
Reverse of letter is printed with standard British prison rules and regulations (Form 21/AD) regarding communications between 'prisoners and their friends'.
Also, (2) summary and background to circumstances of letter compiled by Colm O'Sullivan (3pp)
Digital Copy: https://cork.adlibhosting.com/ais6/Details/archive/110098655
Reference:
PR116/D/5
Date:
1918
Title:
Portrait photograph of Diarmuid Lynch (1878-1950) c. 1918 as Sinn Fein Minister
for Food. Keogh Bros. Drumcondra, print. Sepia photo on light brown mount Level: Item Extent: 10.6 x 16cm Part of: PR116/D Digital Copy: https://cork.adlibhosting.com/ais6/Details/archive/110098656
Reference:
PR116/D/6
Date:
June 1919
Title: Group photograph of Eamon De Valera, John Devoy, Harry Boland, Liam Mellowes, Dr. P. McCartan and Diarmuid Lynch, taken at Waldorf Astoria, New York, 1919 Level: Item Extent: 8.3 x 13cm Part of: PR116/D Digital Copy: https://cork.adlibhosting.com/ais6/Details/archive/110098657
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