Letter from Dorothy Godfrey to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap.

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March 13th. 1925. Rev. Fr. B. Your letter with enclosed picture received. Many thanks for both, and the picture surely shows the sorrow of the good women over in Erin. I want to tell you and your good friends, that Fr. Albert did die broken-hearted over the treatment he received from Fr. P. and the two who went over to England to have his faculties taken from him. What he suffered for God and Ireland he did not mind, but to think of his own in religion doing such mean things almost broke his heart. Yes he wept many times when he was lonesome, but he said to me, did not Our dear Saviour also weep. When he told me how he broke down leaving his dear mother, on account of the cloud over him. His heart was sad, no doubt on account of not being well. If he was robust in health, he would not mind, he could go ahead and work for God, but not being able he had many times to think. Oh, how often he spoke of you and Boni, I thought you were the one party, he would say Boni, and then Donaventure, I had an idea he cut it short. I can hear him say so often oh, the glorious women and men of Ireland, what a prayer. I think he was so lonesome, when he came here, that he felt he needed someone to speak too, and fortunately I was the one who met him. What he needed badly was a good woman's care, a mother or sister, and I feel if he had it at the time he came here, he would have improved, but neglect was there, and he was too proud to ask anyone. Oh, if could have only been left with Dev's mother, she could have nursed him, but he was sent on the way like our dear Lord with his mother, no room for him. I never met one like him in my life, so independent and many of us were willing to give him all the assistance he needed. I am sure he was heart-broken over the way people fell from the principle, than all the mean things done to him. Self he forgot, but could not forget the hypocrisy of our people. Many times I felt like throwing up the cause, not one of my former friends thought like me, and I felt perhaps I was too extreme, only one priest I knew was of the sa I left your letter at home, so may not answer the questions in same, or it may have been Pro. B. letter that inquired for friends. I knew C. Tierney he was a member of the same club a few years ago, but I never meet him at any place now. I thought he would surely be at the Mass for Fr. Albert, but sorry to say, very few were there. Those who were are the true ones. When a few years ago, I heard priests speak about Fastors and Clergy being forgotten, I could not understand, but now I do, for all Fr. did for the cause and religion, very few appreciated him. Only three priest on alter, and at the church where the Cap. were giving a mission, they say only the three Cap. were present, at 37st. and Fr. had spent a little time there, it is almost impossible to believe the clergy in the same house would not at least put in an appearance. I had a Mass at St. Francis of Assisi, and only the one priest was present, I wa…