Letter from Éamonn Duggan to his fiancée May Kavanagh, written during his detention in Lewes Prison,
1917 Feb. 19.
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Summary: | Duggan responds to news of the death of a friend back in Dublin and writes of the cold weather and how cold it feels in his cell. He also requests she send him photographs and postcards to brighten his cell and ask that she fill her pages when she writes to him - ‘Try + remember the letters are our only link with the outside world, + that we don’t want blank sheets of paper’. His letter is written on prison paper, which outlines the rules governing prisoner's correspondence; Duggan signs himself as Edmund. |
In collection: | Éamonn Duggan Papers, 1913-1968. |
Format: | Manuscript |
Language: | English |
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Notes: | Duggan was a member of the Irish Volunteers and fought at the North Dublin Union and later Fr. Mathew Hall during the Easter Rising. Physical description: 1 item (4 pages). more |
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