Margaret C. Osgood to Mary Alden Childers, Erskine Childers, and Robert Alden Childers, [December 1921?]. IE TCD MS 7867/35

Digitised version of IE TCD MS 7867/35, a letter written by Margaret C. Osgood, 354 Marlboro [Street], Boston, Massachusetts, United States to her daughter Mary Alden Childers, son-in-law Erskine Childers, and grandson Robert Alden Childers, [December 1921?]: "Darlings Erskine, Bob, Molly. I am so excited over this news, of Irish Free State. Our country is in a state of wild joy, illuminations &c. It means that I can be with you & that gives me joy untold." 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.