Margaret C. Osgood to Hamilton Osgood, December 1905. IE TCD MS 7867/13

Digitised version of IE TCD MS 7867/13, a letter written by Margaret C. Osgood, [London, England] to her husband Hamilton Osgood, M.D., 165 Woodstock Road, Oxford, England, December 1905 (date based on postmark on envelope): "You darling Hammy, I loved kissing you, half awake as you were!... I adore that baby for he is like you... I shall wire you every little while when it comes... You are a blessed darling, not an old hulk..." Margaret Cushing Pearmain Osgood (1847-1941), was an American writer and poet, mother to writer and nationalist Mary ('Molly') Alden Childers who was married to Erskine Childers, and the maternal grandmother of Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905-1974) who became the fourth President of Ireland 1973-1974.