letter / Fleming Family

Letter, to Mrs Fleming from C. MacCarthy at 12 County Grove, Camberwell, London, dated 10 April 1917. Giving Mrs Fleming the news that he saw her husband Michael in Lewes Prison the previous day and he is well. Also that he is teaching the boys Irish, some detail of daily life in Lewes, and instructing her how to get a letter to her husband. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta', belonging to Michael Fleming, and containing a number of letters, obituaries and other mementoes of the 1916 to the 1930s. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who participated in the 1916 Rising, were interned, and proceeded to fight in the War of Independence.;