Irish Civil War.- Mitchell (Susan Langstaff, Irish writer and poet, 1866-1926) Autograph Letter signed to Ignatius Mac Hugh, 3½pp., 4to, The Plunkett House, 84 Merrion Square, 23rd March 1923, on the Irish Civil War, "... it is not possible to view Civil War indifferently. Liking individuals on both sides, as I do, I cannot condemn ruthlessly, I believe all love this country, but the Republicans have cruelly punished the failure of the country to back them in this fight against the Treaty... I remember well the relief & cheering of those who waited & who felt that the way was open to self-government & the education of the nation in Irish ideals. Ulster would have come in that week or very soon, for Ulster knows that partition will harm her in the long run. Had Mr. de Valera shown a moral courage equal to his physical courage, all would have been well. He knew, I think, what could be made of the Treaty, & his verbal alterations themselves might have been realised had he thrown in his lot with it, because England would not have held out long over a united demand, constitutionally expressed, but the psychological moment passed, the Republicans began to play with fire again, or with firearms, to entrench themselves in buildings, to re-impose the Belfast boycott, to provoke the Treatyites, to make government futile, I do not see what the government could do but dislodge them from the Town Courts", and commenting on Frank Harris's book on George Moore, folds, browned.