TCD MS 11290/7 folio 1 recto
14th September [?1917]
Dear Pa
I got a great letter from you from Rathmullen you seem to have had a pretty good time I’m sure you’ll be the better for it. I wish I had been at that pool I’m sure the excitement was intense. Mother tells me you caught a fair number too which was better than Inver.
I was wandering around the edge of the flood the other day when I spotted a small & shallow bay simply black with fry. I had a dozen niggers there so when I gave them a spell I brought them round and lined them across the neck of the bay we walked them up to the top & then the