Erskine Childers, Secretary to the 1921 Treaty Delegation. ALS, 2 pp (single sheet) on Dail Eireann notepaper, 9.11.[19]21, to Mrs. [Aine] Ceannt, written from 22 Hans Place, London (headquarters of the Irish Treaty delegation), with associated envelope. A warm and interesting letter of thanks for 'the wonderful flag Molly [his wife] told me you had given us. She could not praise its glories enough so you may imagine I am crazy to see it. Molly suggested sending it here but I didn't recommend risking it ..', also mentioning his secretary Lily [Brennan, a sister of Mrs. Ceannt], and 'a grand motor drive on Sunday to my sister's in Sussex, with Bob [Barton, Childers' cousin, a Treaty delegate], David Robinson [another Republican] & my sister Dulci[bella] and Lily, and today we honoured a fashionable tea-resort with our patronage & decided we were the only nice-looking people there ..', also mentioning the uncertainty of their affairs - 'anything may happen these days & I have never yet unpacked my trunk!'.The talks that led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty began in London on 11 October, and continued through November into early December. Erskine Childers was Secretary to the delegation, though not himself a delegate; his cousin Robert Barton was a full delegate. David Robinson (later an anti-Treaty Republican) was a former British soldier and a friend of Childers. Childers opposed the Treaty settlement, organised publicity for the anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War, and was executed by the Free State in November 1922 after he was caught in possession of a pocket pistol given to him by Michael Collins His son, also Erskine, became President of Ireland in 1973.Letters from the Irish delegation at Hans Place are extremely rare.Provenance: McGuone collection, from Aine Ceannt. Erskine Childers, Secretary to the 1921 Treaty Delegation. ALS, 2 pp (single sheet) on Dail Eireann notepaper, 9.11.[19]21, to Mrs. [Aine] Ceannt, written from 22 Hans Place, London (headquarters of the Irish Treaty delegation), with associated envelope. A warm and interesting letter of thanks for 'the wonderful flag Molly [his wife] told me you had given us. She could not praise its glories enough so you may imagine I am crazy to see it. Molly suggested sending it here but I didn't recommend risking it ..', also mentioning his secretary Lily [Brennan, a sister of Mrs. Ceannt], and 'a grand motor drive on Sunday to my sister's in Sussex, with Bob [Barton, Childers' cousin, a Treaty delegate], David Robinson [another Republican] & my sister Dulci[bella] and Lily, and today we honoured a fashionable tea-resort with our patronage & decided we were the only nice-looking people there ..', also mentioning the uncertainty of their affairs - 'anything may happen these days & I have never yet unpacked my trunk!'.The talks that led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty began in London on 11 October, and continued through November into early December. Erskine Childers was Secretary to the delegation, though not himself a delegate; his cousin Robert Barton was a full delegate. David Robinson (later an anti-Treaty Republican) was a former British soldier and a friend of Childers. Childers opposed the Treaty settlement, organised publicity for the anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War, and was executed by the Free State in November 1922 after he was caught in possession of a pocket pistol given to him by Michael Collins His son, also Erskine, became President of Ireland in 1973.Letters from the Irish delegation at Hans Place are extremely rare.Provenance: McGuone collection, from Aine Ceannt.
Erskine Childers, Secretary to the 1921 Treaty Delegation. ALS, 2 pp (single sheet) on Dail Eireann notepaper, 9.11.[19]21, to Mrs. [Aine] Ceannt, written from 22 Hans Place, London (headquarters of the Irish Treaty delegation), with associated envelope. A warm and interesting letter of thanks for 'the wonderful flag Molly [his wife] told me you had given us. She could not praise its glories enough so you may imagine I am crazy to see it. Molly suggested sending it here but I didn't recommend risking it ..', also mentioning his secretary Lily [Brennan, a sister of Mrs. Ceannt], and 'a grand motor drive on Sunday to my sister's in Sussex, with Bob [Barton, Childers' cousin, a Treaty delegate], David Robinson [another Republican] & my sister Dulci[bella] and Lily, and today we honoured a fashionable tea-resort with our patronage & decided we were the only nice-looking people there ..', also mentioning the uncertainty of their affairs - 'anything may happen these days & I have never yet unpacked my trunk!'.The talks that led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty began in London on 11 October, and continued through November into early December. Erskine Childers was Secretary to the delegation, though not himself a delegate; his cousin Robert Barton was a full delegate. David Robinson (later an anti-Treaty Republican) was a former British soldier and a friend of Childers. Childers opposed the Treaty settlement, organised publicity for the anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War, and was executed by the Free State in November 1922 after he was caught in possession of a pocket pistol given to him by Michael Collins His son, also Erskine, became President of Ireland in 1973.Letters from the Irish delegation at Hans Place are extremely rare.Provenance: McGuone collection, from Aine Ceannt. Erskine Childers, Secretary to the 1921 Treaty Delegation. ALS, 2 pp (single sheet) on Dail Eireann notepaper, 9.11.[19]21, to Mrs. [Aine] Ceannt, written from 22 Hans Place, London (headquarters of the Irish Treaty delegation), with associated envelope. A warm and interesting letter of thanks for 'the wonderful flag Molly [his wife] told me you had given us. She could not praise its glories enough so you may imagine I am crazy to see it. Molly suggested sending it here but I didn't recommend risking it ..', also mentioning his secretary Lily [Brennan, a sister of Mrs. Ceannt], and 'a grand motor drive on Sunday to my sister's in Sussex, with Bob [Barton, Childers' cousin, a Treaty delegate], David Robinson [another Republican] & my sister Dulci[bella] and Lily, and today we honoured a fashionable tea-resort with our patronage & decided we were the only nice-looking people there ..', also mentioning the uncertainty of their affairs - 'anything may happen these days & I have never yet unpacked my trunk!'.The talks that led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty began in London on 11 October, and continued through November into early December. Erskine Childers was Secretary to the delegation, though not himself a delegate; his cousin Robert Barton was a full delegate. David Robinson (later an anti-Treaty Republican) was a former British soldier and a friend of Childers. Childers opposed the Treaty settlement, organised publicity for the anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War, and was executed by the Free State in November 1922 after he was caught in possession of a pocket pistol given to him by Michael Collins His son, also Erskine, became President of Ireland in 1973.Letters from the Irish delegation at Hans Place are extremely rare.Provenance: McGuone collection, from Aine Ceannt.
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