Shanahea
Ennis
Co. Clare
Ireland
13/11/15
Dear Mrs. Prichard
Many thanks for your letter, it is no trouble if I only could give you much information re the sad & fatal day for you & us[.] No one feels for you as we do knowing what it is to lose a darling boy. R.I.P. Our hearts go out to you in sympathy over your great loss. I have sent your son[‘]s Photo to a neice [sic, niece] of mine who knows a Clare survivor & requested her to send you any information she might have also with Photo.
I enclose you a copy of a letter my son Dicki M. Garry got from the servant of my loved boy who lost his life in the Lusitania. We heard other accounts about him which correspond with the enclo letter. & never hearing any news of his remains we have come to the conclusion he must have gone down with the ship[.]
I would be very pleased to hear of the names of survivors who could give any information of my darling boy it is the only consolation we can hope for. I was hoping for a long time that perhaps some vessel would pick him up but all in vain. I don’t know if the address give in enclo letter will find int the water perhaps you might get further information from the Cunard office as he was one of the servant to my late son – R.I.P. I shall let you know as soon as I hear of further news.
Y[ou]rs v. Sincerely
– M. Garry
P.S.
God alone knows what sufferings our darling boys was saved from, as life has plenty of trouble sooner or later for all my loved son had signed into go out to Serbia to attend to the Typhus Patients. This dreadful war will leave no son to fathers or Mothers we have only to console ourselves with this thought, that a God knows what is best for all. Welcome His holy will.
Y[ou]rs V. Sincerely
Mary Garry
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