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Lily O'Brien Collection
this lady, Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, seems to have written to every important person
in the world, amazingly, a lot of them replied
not really what I usually have on the site but I thought it was interesting
and entertaining :)
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1) 6th October 1966 United States Senate, Committee on Labor and Public
Welfare to Muss Lilt Kelly O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 12,
Ireland - Dear Lily: I just wanted you to know how much a appreciated your
kind remembrance of me on Saint Patrick's Day. I hope that you will forgive
the long delay in my reply. It was most thoughtful of you to remember me and
I am most grateful for your good wishes. With kindest personal regards to
you and your family, Sincerely, Robert F. Kennedy
2) 28th January 1969 Postmark Presidence Republique Paris to Mademoiselle
Lily Kelly O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast II (North Ireland)
- Général De Gaulle Merci (yeah I'm not going to try and type that
out)
 
  
  
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1) 27th March 1966 Postmark Armagh? to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien, 127 Monagh
Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast, 11 - With every blessing W. Cardinal Conway
2) 18th December 1968 Postmark Belfast to Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 127
Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11 - Governor Northern Ireland, Government
House, Hillsborough With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
from Lord and Lady Grey of Naunton. We hope you are well despite all the
present worries.
3) 15th January 1968 Postmark London First Lord of the Treasury to L. Kelly,
Esq., 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, N. Ireland - 10 Downing
Street, Whitehall Prime Minister Very many thanks indeed for your kind
Christmas message. May I send to you my warmest good wishes for the New
Year. Harold Wilson
 
 
   
 
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1) 20th September 1968 Postmark Washington D.C. to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien,
127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast, Ireland - The Vice-President,
Washington 20510 19th September 1968 Dear Miss O'Brien, I have
received your letter and want you to know how much your kind words and
prayers mean to me. I shall try to be worthy of your respect and conduct a
campaign which I hope will merit your continued confidence and
support. Sincerely, Hubert H. Humphrey
2) 10th October 1968 Postmark Washington to Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 127
Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast I I, Ireland - The Vice President,
Washington D.C. 20510 9th October 1968 Dear Miss O'Brien: I
received your message of congratulations. You have given me new strength and
encouragement. I shall try to be worthy of your respect. These are difficult
times, which require the best from us all. With thanks and appreciation.
Sincerely, Hubert H. Humphrey
~I think some of the following were in the wrong envelopes~
3) (I'll put this here as he ruled from '52 to '99 and most of these
'replies seem to be in the 60s or 70s) Postmark Royal Palace to Miss
Lily K. O. Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11 N. Ireland - With
the Greetings of the Season and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year King
Hussein of Jordan
4) (another with an unclear date) Stamps Jordan to Miss Lily O'Brien,
127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, N. Ireland - Kind Remembrances for
Christmas and All Good Wishes for The Coming Year from King Hussein of
Jordan
    
   
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1) 24th December 1969 Postmark Amman Royal Palace to Miss Lily O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Ireland - My parents and I send you our
best wishes, regards and the Season's Greetings. Alia Al Hussein and King
Hussein of Jordan - H.R.H. Princess Maya Hussein of Jordan
2) Postmark Royal Palace to Miss Lily K. O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf
Lodge, Belfast 11, N. Ireland - Season's Greetings Alia Al Hussein
King Hussein of Jordan
    
    
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1) 24th December 1968 Postmark Royal Palace to Miss Lily O'Brien, 127 Monagh
Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Ireland - Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
for a Very Happy New Year King Hussein of Jordan Muna al Hussein
2) 21st November 1968 Postmark Boston, Mass. to Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Ireland - Cardinal's Residence, 2101
Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton, Massachusetts 02135 20th November 1968
Dear Lily: With all my love, blessings and gratitude, I thank you for your
beautiful and very consoling letter. I assure you that I appreciate your
kindness more than words can say. My problems are great but God will take
care of them. Is you try to be good and kind to people, especially those who
are being criticized by others, you must expect to receive criticism for
yourself in one form or another. I have had it in abundance during the past
few weeks and the only reaction I have is to repeat the words of Good Pope
John XXIII of happy memory: "I don't care what they say or thing of me, I
must be good and kind always to everybody." As for my retirement, I
await the decision of His Holiness Pope Paul VI. Meanwhile, I beg a
remembrance in your good prayers. Thanking you again for your kind thought
of me in a critical period of my life and with a renewed expression of my
affection and prayerful mementos, I am, Your Ever Grateful and Devoted
Friend, Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston. - The Peace Sowers:
The two Johns who sowed the good seed, God's seed in the 20th century are
gone forever. What Pope John XXIII and the President of the United States of
America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy did for the peace of the world will remain
for all time in the history and the hearts of mankind! We and your children
and your children's children for generations will be witness to the good
fruit grown from the seeds sowed by both these great men. May the love
of the Prince of Peace bring joy to your heart at Christmas and throughout
the New Year. To you and yours who have given generously in support of my
humble efforts for God's poor, afflicted and abandoned, I pledge my
prayerful and abiding gratitude. "Let us not grow weary in well doing,
for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart."
Richard Cardinal Cushing
      
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1) Postmark Nicosia Stamp Cyprus to Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 127 Monagh
Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Ireland - With all Good Wishes for Christmas
and the New Year Archbishop Makarios
 
 
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1) 1st January 1969 Postmark London/First Lord of the Treasury to Miss L. K.
O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 10 Downing
Street, Whitehall. I should like to express my thanks for your kind
Christmas message. May I send to you my warmest good wishes for the New
Year. Harold Wilson
2) 19th March 1969 Postmark Boston to Miss L. K. O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road,
Turf Lodge, Belfast Ireland - Cardinal's Residence, 2101 Commonwealth
Avenue, Brighton, Massachusetts 02135 March 18, 1969 Dear Miss
O'Brien, God bless and reward you for sending me St. Patrick's Day
greetings. May I wish you in return an abundance of Irish good cheer and
blessings galore from Patrick, the missionary bishop who made the Emerald
Isle a Nation of Saints and scholars. Spiritual authors tell us that silence
is the best disposition for prayer. It invites communication of God with the
soul. It helps us to put our house in order, to put first things first, to
remember that in God we live and move and have our being. Away from Him, we
sicken and die. If we wish to become aware of God's presence, to hear "that
still small voice which is like the whispering of a gentle air", we must
provide for occasional moments of silence. These will enable us to view our
lives with proper perspective, to be sensible, humble, recollected and
prepared for our resurrection and God's Final Kingdom. With all my love and
blessings, I am Devotedly yours in Christ, Richard Cardinal Cushing,
Archbishop of Boston
  
 
  
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1) 24th March 1969 Postmark Washington, D.C. 18 to Miss L. K. O'Brien, 127
Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Ireland - Hubert H. Humphrey,
Washington D.C. March 20, 1969 Dear Miss O'Brien: Thank you for
your thoughtful greeting on St. Patrick's Day. It was very kind of you to
remember me. With best wishes. Sincerely, Hubert H. Humphrey
2) 23rd September 1969 Postmark Presidence Republique Paris to Mademoiselle
Liley Kelly O Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Yurf Lodge, Belfast II (Irlande) - Le
Président de la République (french)
3) 9th December 1969 Postmark Boston to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien, 127 Monagh
Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast, Ireland - Cardinal's Residence, 2101 Commonwealth
Avenue, Brighton, Mass 02135 With affection, gratitude and prayerful
mementos. I wish you every blessing of the Christmas Season. I pray that
every day of the New Year will be more prosperous for you than its
predecessor. Richard Cardinal Cushing
 
  
 
   
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1) 8th January 1970 Postmark London S.W.1 to Miss L. K. O'Brien, 127 Monagh
Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Ireland - 10 Downing Street, Whitehall I
should like to thank you most sincerely for your kind Christmas greetings.
May I send you all my good wishes for the New Year. Harold Wilson
Christmas 1969
2) 20th January 1970 Postmark Citta Del Vaticano Paulus P. P. VI
Secretariat of State - 16th January 1970 The Secretariat of State is
directed by the Holy Father to acknowledge receipt of the devoted message
addressed to Him, to assure the sender that in His Masses and prayers He
will be mindful of the intentions recommended to Him, and to convey, as a
pledge of abiding divine graces, the paternal Apostolic Blessing of His
Holiness. C. M. Fabriano
3) 26th January 1970 Postmark Paris to Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 127 Monagh
Road Turf Lodge, Belfast II Irlande - Général de Gaulle ?
4) 14th December 1970 Postmark Belfast to Miss L. K. O'Brien, 127 Monagh
Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11 - Governor Northern Ireland, Government House,
Hillsborough Thank you for your kind message of greetings and good
wishes. With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Lord and Lady
Grey of Naunton
 
  
 
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1) 24th December 1970 Postmark Presidence Republique Paris to Madame L. K.
O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast II, Irlande - Le Président de
la République. ?
2) 31st December 1971 Postmark Citta Del Vaticano to Miss Lily O'Brien, 127
Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Irelanda del Nord -? Paulus P.P.
VI 1965
3) 31st December 1971 Postmark Presidence Republique Paris to Madame Lily
O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11, Irelande du Nord - Le
Président de la République. ?
no date but pre Norglen
 
  
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1) Cyprus to Miss L. K. O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11,
North Ireland - ?
2) I don't understand the date Postmark Vaticano to L. Kelly O'Brien, 127
Monagh Road, Turf Ladge, Belfast 11, Ireland
 
 
 
 
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1) 24th July 1972 Postmark Washington D.C. to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien, 7
Norglen Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast 12, Ireland - United States Senate
Dear Miss O'Brien, I so very much appreciated your warm message and your
good blessings. I will need them in the coming months, you may be sure. Once
again, many thanks. Yours very truly, Thomas F. Eagleton, United States
Senator
2) 31st July 1972 Postmark Washington D.C. to Miss Lilesy Kelly O'Brien,
Norglen Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast 12, Ireland - United States Senate
Dear Miss O'Brien: Thank you for your kind letter. I appreciate your taking
the time and trouble to write. It is encouraging to have your support, and I
hope I will continue to merit your confidence. With every good wish, I am
Sincerely yours, George McGovern.
3) 18th August 1972 Postmark Washington D.C. ? - United States Senate
15th August 1972 Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 7 Norglen Parade, Turf
Lodge, Belfast 12, Ireland Dear Miss O'Brien: Thank you for your
recent letter regarding the Democratic nomination for Vice President. I
appreciate your taking the time to write to share your views with me. As you
know, the Democratic National Committee has nominated R. Sargent Shriver as
the new vice presidential candidate. I have pledged my full support to
Senator McGovern and Mr. Shriver in the Presidential election this fall.
This will be an important election which will bring new leadership to the
country. With arm best wishes, I am Sincerely, Edmund S. Muskie, United
States Senator
4) 2nd September 1972 Postmark Washington D.C. to Miss Lilly Kelly O'Brien,
Norglen Parade, Belfast 12, Ireland - McGovern Shriver '72 1st
September 1972 Dear Miss O'Brien, Thank you for your letter of good
luck and support. I am happy to hear from you. With best wishes. Sincerely,
Sargent Shriver
   
   
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1) 3rd October 1972 Postmark Washington D.C. to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien,
Norglen Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast 12, Ireland - United States Senate
29th September 1972 Dear Miss O'Brien: Thank you so much for your kind
note, and for the prayer card that you enclosed. I do appreciate your
support and your good wishes for my success in this effort for the
Presidency. It is an uphill campaign, but we are optimistic about the result
on November seventh. With thanks, and kind regards, I am Sincerely, George
McGovern 'The McGovern Family'
2) 15th December 1972 Postmark Belfast to Miss Lily O'Brien, Norglen Parade,
Belfast 11 - Governor Northern Ireland, Government House, Hillsborough
'Government House with the Richhill Castle Gates' With thanks for your
kind message and With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from Lord
and Lady Grey of Naunton
  
 
   
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1) 25th January 1973 Postmark Boston, Mass. to Miss L. O. Brien, 41 Norglen
Parade, Belfast 11, No. Ireland - Archbishop's House, 2101 Commonwealth
Avenue, Brighton, Mass. 02135 Your thoughtful Christmas Greeting was
very welcome. In my Masses and Prayers during the New Year 1973, I will ask
God to bless you and those you love, and to sustain you with an outpouring
of His grace. + Humberto S. Medeiros , Archbishop of Boston.
2) 10th August 1973 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Manned
Spacecraft Centre, Houston, Texas - Dear Miss Brien: Thank you for your
interest in the mission of Apollo XVII and my part in it. The opportunity
was beyond my expectations and I hope that time will prove that it was
worthwhile for the country and mankind as well as for myself. This wish will
be fulfilled if each of us pauses once in a while and realizes that
something different in the eyes of history has occurred during the last
decade. Our generation has proved that mankind can evolve into the universe
if this is its desire. When the troublesome problems of the present are long
forgotten, this, I believe, will be the legacy we leave to the future. With
kindest regards. Harrison H. Schmitt NASA Astronaut
3) 27th November 1974 Postmark Boston, Mass. to Miss L. O. Brien, 41 Norglen
Parade, Belfast 11, No. Ireland - Cardinal's Residence, 2101 Commonwealth
Avenue, Brighton, Mass. 02135 May the Peace of Christ our Saviour be
with you as we celebrate the feast of Christmas and may His grace sustain
you during the coming Holy Year of reconciliation and renewal. Humberto
Cardinal Madeiros, Archbishop of Boston. Christmas Nineteen Hundred and
Seventy-Four
 
   
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1) 1st January 1975 Postmark Nicosia, Cyprus to Miss E. K. O'Brien, 7
Rovglen Parade, Belfast II, N. Ireland - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus.
With my warm thanks please accept my best wishes for a happy and prosperous
New Year. Christmas 1974
2) 9th December 1975 Postmark Royal Palace to Miss Lily K. O'Brien, 7 Y.
Norglen Parade, Belfast, N. Ireland - With our best wishes, regards and the
Season's Greetings. King Hussein of Jordan Alia Al Hussein
 
  
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1) 18th August 1976 Postmark Washington D.C. to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien, 7
Turf Lodge, Norglen Parade, Belfast, Northern Ireland - The White House,
Washington. 13th August 1976 Dear Miss O'Brien: Mrs. Ford and I
have been constantly encouraged by the many messages of prayerful support we
have received. Your spiritual gift was particularly heartening, and we want
you to know that your friendship means much to us. With our best wishes.
Sincerely, Jimmy Ford
2) 7th December 1983 Postmark Boston to Miss L. O'Brien, 41 Norglen Parade,
Belfast II, No. Ireland - Most Reverend Thomas V. Daily, Auxiliary Bishop of
Boston - Archdiocese of Boston, 2121 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton,
Massachusetts 02135
NASA Correspondence not in strict chronological
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1) 24th July 1969 Postmark Houston, Texas to Miss Lily Kelly Obrien, 127
Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast 11 Ireland - National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas - 14th July 1969
Dear Miss Obrien: Thank you for your recent note along with the medal. Your
thoughtfulness in sending this to me is sincerely appreciated and I am
grateful for your interest in our activities. Sincerely, Michael Collins,
Lt. Colonel, USAF NASA Astronaut
2) 24th February 1972 to Miss Lily O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge,
Belfast II Ireland - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Manned
Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas - Dear Miss O'Brien, Thank you for having
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered in my behalf during the Christmas
Season. I am most grateful for your thoughtfulness. With kindest regards.
Sincerely, James B. Irwin, Colonel, USAF, NASA Astronaut.
3) June 1972 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Manned
Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas - Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 7 Norglen
Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast II North Ireland
Dear Miss O'Brien: Thank you for your message of congratulations extended to
us on the completion of Apollo 16. Ken, Charlie, and I are extremely proud
to have had the opportunity to represent our country on such a challenging
and rewarding mission of discovery. We believe that the Apollo 16 mission
was a successful scientific foray past the out post on man's last frontier
-- the frontier of the unknown. The basic knowledge which will be revealed
from the orbital and lunar surface experiments will significantly improve
the understanding of our sister satellite -- and, one day, of our own earth.
Such basic understanding, we believe, is vital to the continued survival of
humanity on this planet. As a token ou (of) our appreciation for your
interest in our flight, we are enclosing some material about the Apollo
program. Sincerely, John (W,) Young, Captain, USN NASA Astronaut
(this letter had literature enclosed) - Prime Crew of Third Manned
Apollo Mission: James A. McDivitt - David R. Scott - Russell L. Schweickart
~ Apollo 10 astronauts at Complex 39B. Left to right: Eugene A. Cernan, John
W. Young (who wrote Thank you! on the back of the photo) and Thomas
P. Stafford.
 
 
 
 
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1) (no date but address is prior to June 1972) to Miss Liley K.
O'Brien, 127 Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast II Ireland - National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston,
Texas - Apollo 11 standardised reply Neil A. Armstrong, Michael
Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
2) 26th June 1970 Postmark Houston, Texas to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien, 127
Monagh Road, Turf Lodge, Belfast II Ireland - Apollo X11 standardised
reply Charles Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Alan L. Bean
3) 20th February 1973 to Miss L. O. Brien, 1 Norglen Parade, Belfast 11
North Ireland - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Manned
Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas - Dear Miss Brien: This is just a short
note to let you know how much I appreciate your very kind thoughts and your
well wishes. I feel rather fortunate to have flown as the Apollo 17 command
module pilot, and I hope that you enjoyed this flight as mush as I did. My
very best wishes to you and yours for a happy and prosperous New Year.
Sincerely, Ronald E. Evans, Captain, USN NASA Astronaut
4) 22nd August 1973 to Miss Liley Kelly O'Brien, 7 Nor Glen Parade, Turf
Lodge, Belfast Ireland - National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas - Dear Miss O'Brien: We are
proud to have participated in our nation's first flight in her Skylab
series. This was a tremendous experience, and we are indeed most grateful
that we were given the opportunity to be the crew on this mission. For your
generous encouragement through the years of preparation for this particular
series of manned space flights, for your many kind and generous words, for
your well wishes for a successful first journey, and for your many prayers
offered in our behalf, we extend our most humble thanks and appreciation.
Sincerely, Charles Conrad, Jr. Joseph P. Kerwin Paul J. Weitz
 
(August 30 (no year but after June 1972) Postmark Washington D.C.
United States Senate Edward M. Kennedy to Miss Lily Kelly O'Brien, 7
Norglen Parade, Turf Lodge, Belfast 12, Ireland
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