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Letter from Isabella Gifford to Sister Francesca, Mary MacDonagh

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<address>8 Temple Villas Palmerstown Rd</address>
<date>21 June 1916</date>

<note>I am so
<lb/> sorry your
<lb/> brother is in such
<lb/> a bad state. May
<lb/> God save him
<lb/>&amp; bring him back
<lb/> to you again.</note>

<salute>My Dear Sister Francesca,</salute>
<p>I should have replied to your
<lb/> letter before now, but I have been so busy
<lb/> and upset by one thing or another that I
<lb/> have no time for anything but business
<lb/> letters.  All the same I am really grateful 
<lb/>to you for all your kindness to Muriel and
<lb/> her children.  I assure you, she is a very
<lb/> difficult person to deal with, and I fear your
<lb/> goodness is not appreciated. As to Muriel
<lb/> settling down in the country, I don't think
<lb/> it at all <add>likely</add> she would content herself there.</p>
<p>I am glad you are getting a change to
<lb/> Tramore.  It will do you good.  I hope you
<lb/> get out to the sea &amp; that you don't have to
<lb/> wear that appalling dress &amp; veil, which
<lb/> are enough to kill the patience of any poor
<lb/> human.  I'd just like to see you dressed in
<lb/> a nice white dress, with a nice dainty pair
<lb/> of shoes on your nice little feet.   However
<lb/> I suppose you prefer to 'mortify the flesh',
<lb/> &amp; you do it with a vengeance.  Now as to
<lb/> Muriel's story about her box being broken
<lb/> open and rifled.  I think the probable
<lb/> solution of the affair is what <unclear>Liebert</unclear>  told me.
<lb/>  He said that she had it so tightly packed, that
<lb/> he had to get into it &amp; dance on the contents
<lb/> before he could lock it, and that after that
<lb/> Muriel opened it again &amp; put in more 'stuff''.<pb/>

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Letter from Isabella Gifford to Sister Francesca, Mary MacDonagh

National Library of Ireland

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