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Letter written to Kate Williams Evans after her release from Holloway Prison by a suffragette named Dorothy Evans who remained a prisoner. Dorothy thanks Kate for sending flowers and describes her experience of prison life and of hunger strike.

Kate Williams Evans, born in Montgomeryshire in 1866, was sentenced to 2 months hard labour for malicious damage, having smashed a window in a government building in London. She served 54 days in Holloway Prison in March-April 1912, during which she went on hunger strike