Margaret C. Osgood to Mary Alden Childers and Erskine Childers, 23rd January [1906?]. IE TCD MS 7867/3

Digitised version of IE TCD MS 7867/3, a letter written by Margaret C. Osgood, Grand Hotel Metropole, Bad Nauheim, Germany to her daughter Mary Alden Childers and son-in-law Erskine Childers, 23rd January [1905; that is 1906?], in celebration of their family of three: "You must kiss him, Molly, for us... I feel now as if your life had become complete now it has blossomed into Molly & the baby - your baby. The gods have been good to you my children. In all my life I have never seen any thing as perfectly beautiful as yr. union. O how glad I am & how I love my trio." 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. Date for this letter of 1906 is based on the birth date of Erskine Hamilton Childers, 15 December 1905.