Identity area
Reference code
IE DCUA C2/3/3/4
Title
Letter from Mary Rose Cunningham to Grace Watt.
Date(s)
- 4 November 1993-[?17 November 1993] (Creation)
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2 items
Context area
Name of creator
(1881-1954)
Name of creator
(1919-1992)
Name of creator
(1951-)
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Scope and content
Cunningham writes to Watt regarding her husband, Cyril Cusack's, recent death and thanks Watt for her letter of sympathy. Cunningham discusses how Cusack and Watt 'went back along [sic] way', how Cusack had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease the previous April, and her wish that Watt and Cusack could have met again before his death.
Also includes a related note from Watt to Colum Kenny describing Cusack's death as '[t]he end of a particularly happy period in the latter part of [my] life which I owe entirely to you. If you had not spoken to Cyril none of this could have happened.' Watt included this note with the letter from Cunningham when she forwarded them onto Kenny in November 1993.