Margaret C. Osgood to Hamilton Osgood, December 1905. IE TCD MS 7867/17

Digitised version of IE TCD MS 7867/17, 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) updating him on his daughter Mary and her new baby, Erskine Hamilton: "Molly looks like a flower this morning. The baby loves his bottle & her heart is satisfied... I know you contribute through me & I know yr spirit is here all the time. I believe you helped at the time of birth. I believe it implicitly..." 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.