Letter from Gertrude Parry to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.
Letter from Gertrude Parry, Shelbourne Hotel, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., affirming that she has heard of his offer ‘from my friends the Gavan Duffys and Miss Eva Gore Booth’. She adds ‘You will not know my name but I am a cousin of Roger Casement and there are several matters I should like to talk to you about’.
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- Level of description
- Item
- Date
- 7 June 1917
- Reference
- 8
- Extent and medium
- 3 pp; Manuscript
- Scope and content
- Letter from Gertrude Parry, Shelbourne Hotel, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., affirming that she has heard of his offer ‘from my friends the Gavan Duffys and Miss Eva Gore Booth’. She adds ‘You will not know my name but I am a cousin of Roger Casement and there are several matters I should like to talk to you about’.
- General note
- Gertrude Parry, née Bannister, was a cousin of Roger Casement. See Papers of Sir Roger Casement (National Library of Ireland: Collection List no. A 15: Roger Casement Papers: MS 13,073-MS 13,092).
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > The Papers of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. > Correspondence > Correspondence with Wives and Relations of Republican Prisoners
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Extracted Mentions
People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.
Places
- Shelbourne(2)
- Gore(1)
Sample passages
- Eva Gore Booth, & as I &
- Jones Gruly
- SHELBOURNE HOTEL,
Full Transcript (OCR, 1 pages)
Machine-generated OCR transcript. Handwritten material may contain recognition errors.
Page 1
SHELBOURNE HOTEL, DUBLIN. June 7th 1917. Dear Father Albert I have heard of you often from my friends the Gavan Duffys & hiss Eva Gore Booth, & as I & my husband are staying in Dublin till Sunday Evening I should be very glad of an opportunity of meeting SHELBOURNE HOTEL DUBLIN You. You will not know my hame but I am a cousin of Roger Casement & there are several matters I should like to talk to you about. Could you run me up before 10.30, between 9 & 10 would be the best, & let me know when & where I Could see you? Jones Gruly Gerbrand Parry.