Margaret C. Osgood to Hamilton Osgood, December 1905. IE TCD MS 7867/14

Digitised version of IE TCD MS 7867/14, a letter written by Margaret C. Osgood, [London, England] to her husband Dr. Hamilton Osgood, M.D., 165 Woodstock Road, Oxford, England, December 1905 (date based on postmark on envelope) informing him she has "... just arrived. Found Molly in bed. Dr. C had put in the rubber catheter & does not expect results until tomorrow morning. She has no pain. The baby may not come until Monday. We shall stay on. No trouble with kidneys... Molly said the putting in of the catheter hurt for 5 minutes. She sends you a heart full of love & will keep your blessed letter for the baby's book..." 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.