Finish my exercises early, and hurry down to Stockleys’. ((William P. Stockley (1859-1943), professor of English at University College Cork from 1905-1931. He was born in Dublin, studied at Trinity College with Douglas Hyde, taught at the universities of Ottawa and New Brunswick before returning to Ireland. He became a Catholic in 1894, joined Sinn Féin and was elected to the 2nd Dáil. He contributed to many journals and published several books. His second wife, Marie Germaine (1868-1949), was born in Munich to the French pianist Sophie Danvin and the Bavarian landscape architect Max Kolb, director of the Royal Botanical Gardens; her sister was the novelist Annette Kolb. She was a singer, a painter, taught singing in the School of Music, contributed to journals and was a marvellous correspondent. The heroine in Sean O’Faolain’s play She Had to Do Something was modelled on her; Daniel Corkery dedicated his Book of Lyrics I Bhreasail to the Stockleys. They had one daughter, Sophie, and lived in Woodside, Tivoli.)) Mammy’s pupils, who gave a splendid concert in the School of Music two weeks ago, are repeating it at Woodside for the benefit of those who couldn’t come. There were about forty people there, and the whole assembly reminded me of what I heard of the old days when such interesting musical meetings were held there. Many famous people went there, and Pappy had his meetings of the Choral Union in Tivoli then. The war, however, has changed all this. The evening was a great success. The pupils played splendidly except for their being a little unused to the piano. Everybody was delighted. Afterwards, when the majority were gone, we played charades, and had great fun.
