<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:base="https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/letters1916" xml:id="item__0861.xml" prev="https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/letters1916/item__0860.xml" next="https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/letters1916/item__0862.xml">
   <teiHeader xml:id="L1916_0861">
      <fileDesc>
         <titleStmt>
            <title type="main">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 23 December 1915</title>
            <title type="sub">Letters 1916-1923</title>
            <author>Wilfrid Bliss Spender</author>
         </titleStmt>
         <editionStmt>
            <p>This work was originally published by Maynooth University in Ireland in <date>2017</date>. In 2026 this data, stored in a relational database was extracted and converted into this TEI/XML document.</p>
         </editionStmt>
         <publicationStmt>
            <publisher>Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities</publisher>
            <pubPlace>Vienna, AT</pubPlace>
            <date>2026</date>
            <availability>
               <p>This is an open access work licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).</p>
            </availability>
            <ptr target="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"/>
         </publicationStmt>
         
         <notesStmt>
            <note type="summary">
               <p>A letter from Wilfrid Bliss Spender (1876-1960) to his wife, lady Lillian Spender (1880-1968). In this letter, Spender states that he is getting 'a little tired' of sending Christmas wishes, mentions the visit a comrade, Richardson, and suggests that one possible plan for his (Spender's) upcoming leave could be for himself and Lillian to go to a house in Wiltshire owned by his brother Rex. Spender refers to a speech by David Lloyd George (1863-1945), the then Minister for Munitions, in which he suggested that the war could continue for another year, or more. Spender urges Lillian not to tire herself out writing letters to him, and gives news of the progress of the fighting.Sir Wilfrid Spender was a member of the British Army until 1913 when controversy surrounding his signature of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant resulted in his resignation. Spender was called up for military service in 1914 and from 1915 served in the 36th (Ulster) Division. Throughout the war, Spender wrote a collection of letters to his wife Lady Lillian Spender. The letters date mainly from 1915 to 1918, when Sir Wilfrid was serving in France. The letters concern politics, the Irish question, personal life, and Wilfrid's experience of the Great War.</p>
            </note>
         </notesStmt>
         
         <sourceDesc>
            <msDesc>
               <msIdentifier>
                  <repository>Public Record Office of Northern Ireland</repository>
                  <collection>Lady Spender's Correspondence, D1633/1/1/118</collection>
                  <idno>https://letters1916.ie/item/861</idno>
               </msIdentifier>
            </msDesc>
         </sourceDesc>
      </fileDesc>
     <profileDesc>
        <langUsage>
           <language ident="en">English</language>
        </langUsage>
        <correspDesc>
           <correspAction type="sent">
              <persName key="#letters1916_person-0931">Wilfrid Bliss Spender</persName>
              <date>1915-12-23</date>
              <placeName key="#letters1916_place-0769">France</placeName>
           </correspAction>
           <correspAction type="received">
              <persName key="#letters1916_person-None">Lillian Spender</persName>
              <date/>
              <placeName/>
           </correspAction>
        </correspDesc>
        <textClass>
         <keywords>
            <list>
               <item n="gender">Male</item>
               <item n="topic">World War I (1914-1918)</item>
               <item n="topic">Country and City Life</item>
            </list>
         </keywords>
        </textClass>
     </profileDesc>
     <encodingDesc>
         <projectDesc>
            <p>The data in these XML files was generated based on a data dump from the Magellan database (https://github.com/Maynooth-Center-for-Digital-Humanities/Magellan). Each database record has been converted to a JSON file (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/json). The element section of the JSON file contains the TEI-encoded contents of the letters. The TEI XML has been cleaned and made well-formed using a Python script (https://github.com/letters1916static/letters-data/tree/main/src).</p>
         </projectDesc>
     </encodingDesc>
  </teiHeader>
   <facsimile>
      <graphic xml:id="L1916_0861_img_2420_1" type="Letter" url="84d9521b0debbe4b59b87cfec96b1fd2.jpg"/>
      <graphic xml:id="L1916_0861_img_2420_2" type="Letter" url="5f5e0d08a120244c2d9da9d86563bdec.jpg"/>
   </facsimile>
   <text>
      <body>
         <ab>
            <pb n="1" facs="L1916_0861_img_2420_1"/>
                23 Dec 15   My pr   I believe this is really my Xmas letter but I am getting<lb/> a little tired of sending Xmas greetings even to a pr when I know<lb/> she now takes them â &amp; a lot of other things too â quite for granted.<lb/> However I'll wish her one more wish which I know, &amp; hope it<lb/> may come true.  Richardson is off &amp; I am sorry that as he will only be<lb/> one day in town he will not be able to look you up, tho' he took<lb/> your <seg type="del">tel</seg> N<hi rend="superscript">o</hi> in case there may be a chance later. I think<lb/> his wife who lives at 18 Park Avenue <seg type="unclear">Bidford</seg> &amp; who often comes<lb/> up to town (!) would <seg type="del">probably</seg> be glad to see you, but probably<lb/> not till after he returns.  I wonder if Rex's old place in the New Forest would<lb/> do for us. I'm not quite sure of the address but think it<lb/> was <seg type="unclear">Mrs</seg> Olding. Olding's farm Redlynch near Downton<lb/> Wiltshire. It is a delightful part of the country &amp; a comfortable <lb/> farm. It might be worth writing (?) &amp; if you do so don't<lb/> forget to enquire the best means of getting there. I'm afraid I am<lb/> giving a tired little pr a great deal to do &amp; to decide, but as<lb/> she knows the will not mind what she does with him, as<lb/> long as she ......, she need not worry about troubling<lb/> unduly in making up her mind.  
            <pb n="2" facs="L1916_0861_img_2420_2"/>
              I see that Lloyd George's speech<lb/> makes it quite plain that he<lb/> does not expect the war to finish in less that 1 year &amp; that<lb/> Redmond is beginning to show his teeth more in the open. I retract<lb/> anything I have said about his possibly being an honest patriot.  Squiffy will try to put things off again on hearing his master's voice<lb/> but I have some faint hope that this may prove too much for L G <lb/> &amp; that the former may have to go but I'm afraid this is too<lb/> good to be true &amp; there is always <seg type="del">the</seg> his  Â£9000 or Â£10000 to think<lb/> of. If I were a millionaire I think I would pension him off<lb/> for the sake of the country tho' few men ( or women ) deserve it<lb/> less.  I don't like your being so tired now writing me letters, I<lb/> quite understand about the times. All I mean to say is that<lb/> if you have anything urgent for the post it is best to post it<lb/> a good deal earlier in the afternoon is possible but I don't want<lb/> you to worry about the letters for me any more than you<lb/> want me to do for you.  The place I was at in the trenches was heavily shelled just<lb/> after I left ( ? my motor) but no one was hurt &amp; the village itself<lb/> was past hurting. News of a big French victory ( at any rate <lb/> it sounds like a bit victory with 1200 prisoners ) has just come in.<lb/> It is very necessary that the French should get encouragement just now  My dear love to the family &amp; best Xmas wishes!! <seg type="closer"> Your bw  WB Spender </seg> 
         </ab>
      </body>
   <back><listPlace><place xml:id="letters1916_place-0769" n="France">
               <placeName>France</placeName>
            <noteGrp><note target="item__0006.xml" type="mentions">Letter from John Moynihan to Michael Moynihan, 9 August 1916</note><note target="item__0102.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Lewis Martin, 18 June 1916</note><note target="item__0104.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to Mary Martin, 27 August 1916</note><note target="item__0105.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Lewis Martin, 21 June 1916</note><note target="item__0107.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Lewis Martin, 23 June 1916</note><note target="item__0108.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Lewis Martin, 2 July 1916</note><note target="item__0109.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Martin, 18 October 1916</note><note target="item__0110.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to Mary Martin, 7 September 1916</note><note target="item__0111.xml" type="mentions">A letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Martin, 27 October 1916</note><note target="item__0112.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Lewis Martin, 26 June 1916</note><note target="item__0113.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Martin, 20 October 1916</note><note target="item__0114.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Lewis Martin, 20 August 1916</note><note target="item__0115.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Martin, 27 August 1916</note><note target="item__0117.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to Mary Martin, 18 Sept 1916</note><note target="item__0118.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to Mary Martin, 19 September 1916</note><note target="item__0122.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to Mary Martin, 27 September 1916</note><note target="item__0283.xml" type="mentions">Letter from J. L. Hay to Lady Clonbrock, 7 January 1916</note><note target="item__0303.xml" type="mentions">Letter from J. Cordner to Elizabeth Bell, 10 March 1916</note><note target="item__0407.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Charles Hezlet to his mother, 26 September 1916</note><note target="item__0423.xml" type="mentions">Letter from John Adams to Mary Adams, 13 May 1916</note><note target="item__0443.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Richard Perceval Maxwell to Colonel Robert David Perceval Maxwell, 25 April, 1916</note><note target="item__0444.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Richard Perceval-Maxwell to Colonel Robert Perceval-Maxwell, 6 May 1916</note><note target="item__0447.xml" type="mentions">Letter from John Adams to Mary Adams, 13 May 1916</note><note target="item__0486.xml" type="mentions">Letter From John Miley to Diarmid Coffey, 18 January 1916</note><note target="item__0593.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr Francis M Browne SJ to Fr Thomas V Nolan SJ, 21 August 1916</note><note target="item__0622.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Terence Duffin to his father Adam, 29 January 1916</note><note target="item__0712.xml" type="mentions">Telegram from Samuel Cleland Davidson to Captain SJ Davidson, 6 March 1916</note><note target="item__0713.xml" type="mentions">Letter from James Davidson to his sister, Kathleen, 7 March 1916</note><note target="item__0714.xml" type="mentions">Letter from James Davidson to his mother, Clara Mary Davidson, 13 March 1916</note><note target="item__0715.xml" type="mentions">Letter from James Davidson to his mother, Clara Mary. Davidson, 16 February 1916</note><note target="item__0716.xml" type="mentions">Letter from James Davidson to his mother, Clara Mary Davidson, 19 February 1916</note><note target="item__0746.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 12 June 1916</note><note target="item__0747.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 13 June 1916</note><note target="item__0749.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 17 June 1916</note><note target="item__0750.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 19 June 1916</note><note target="item__0751.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 21 June 1916</note><note target="item__0752.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 24 June 1916</note><note target="item__0753.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 30 June 1916</note><note target="item__0754.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 2 July 1916</note><note target="item__0755.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 3 July 1916</note><note target="item__0756.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 7 July 1916</note><note target="item__0758.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 9 July 1916</note><note target="item__0759.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 11 July 1916</note><note target="item__0760.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 11 July 1916</note><note target="item__0761.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 12 July 1916</note><note target="item__0762.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender. 13 July 1916</note><note target="item__0763.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 15 July 1916</note><note target="item__0764.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 2 July 1916</note><note target="item__0765.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 16 July 1916</note><note target="item__0766.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 16 July 1916</note><note target="item__0767.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender, 16 July 1916</note><note target="item__0769.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 18 July 1916</note><note target="item__0770.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 21 July 1916</note><note target="item__0771.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 21 July 1916</note><note target="item__0772.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 22 July 1916</note><note target="item__0773.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 22 July 1916</note><note target="item__0775.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 24 July 1916</note><note target="item__0776.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 27 July 1916</note><note target="item__0778.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 29 July 1916</note><note target="item__0779.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 28 July 1916</note><note target="item__0793.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to Lillian Spender, 9 August 1916</note><note target="item__0794.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 10 August 1916</note><note target="item__0795.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 12 August 1916</note><note target="item__0796.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 13 August 1916</note><note target="item__0797.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 14 August 1916</note><note target="item__0798.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 15 August 1916</note><note target="item__0800.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender, 18 August 1916</note><note target="item__0801.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 20 August 1916</note><note target="item__0802.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 21 August 1916</note><note target="item__0803.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 22 August 1916</note><note target="item__0804.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 24 August 1916</note><note target="item__0805.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 25 August 1916</note><note target="item__0808.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 27 August 1916</note><note target="item__0809.xml" type="mentions">Note from Sir Wilfrid Spender, 28 August 1916</note><note target="item__0825.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 18 December 1915</note><note target="item__0855.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 19 December 1915</note><note target="item__0856.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 20 December 1915</note><note target="item__0857.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 21 December 1915</note><note target="item__0858.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his family, 21 December 1915</note><note target="item__0859.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 22 December 1915</note><note target="item__0861.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 23 December 1915</note><note target="item__0922.xml" type="mentions">letter from Charles Wyndham Wynne to his aunt, Sophia Sarah Wynne, 13 October 1916</note><note target="item__1051.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Samuel Davidson to Lieutenant William Ashcroft, 7 July 1916</note><note target="item__1056.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Ashcroft to Samuel Cleland &amp; Clara Davidson, 3 July 1916</note><note target="item__1096.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Father Willie Doyle to Hugh Doyle, 10 March 1916</note><note target="item__1149.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 11 May 1916</note><note target="item__1150.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 24 May 1916</note><note target="item__1151.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 14 June 1916</note><note target="item__1152.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 18 August 1916</note><note target="item__1153.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 23 September 1916</note><note target="item__1155.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 14 May 1917</note><note target="item__1163.xml" type="mentions">Letter from A.C.C. Fraser, 8 January 1916</note><note target="item__1183.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, circa 1916</note><note target="item__1186.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 23 September 1916</note><note target="item__1187.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 27 November 1916</note><note target="item__1189.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 12 June 1917</note><note target="item__1190.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, circa April 1918</note><note target="item__1194.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, circa 1918</note><note target="item__1196.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 9 March 1918</note><note target="item__1198.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Fr John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, circa 1918</note><note target="item__1326.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Oscar L. Disney, 22nd Royal Fusiliers, to Father Darlington, 3 June 1916</note><note target="item__1560.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Michael Moynihan to John Moynihan, 18 September 1916</note><note target="item__1726.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Marie Martin to her mother Mary Martin, 8 October 1916</note><note target="item__1828.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Arthur Joseph Dease to his mother Lady Emily Dease, 18 July 1916</note><note target="item__2367.xml" type="mentions">Christopher Walsh letters</note><note target="item__2441.xml" type="mentions">Letter From John Miley in France to Diarmid Coffey on the Ulster Home Defence Force</note><note target="item__2798.xml" type="mentions">Letter from James Davidson to his father Samuel Cleland Davidson, 16 February 1916</note><note target="item__2802.xml" type="mentions">Letter from James Davidson to his mother, Clara Mary Davidson, 21 May 1916</note><note target="item__2832.xml" type="mentions">Letter from James Robert Bargrave Armstrong to his father, Henry Bruce Armstrong, 22 July 1916</note><note target="item__2847.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, circa June 1916</note><note target="item__2852.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 11 June 1916</note><note target="item__2856.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 15 June 1916</note><note target="item__2858.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 17 June 1916</note><note target="item__2860.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his family, 19 June 1916</note><note target="item__2867.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 27 June 1916</note><note target="item__2868.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 27 June 1916</note><note target="item__2869.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 29 June 1916</note><note target="item__2872.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 3 July 1916</note><note target="item__2874.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 4 July 1916</note><note target="item__2876.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 6 July 1916</note><note target="item__2901.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir  Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 28 July 1916</note><note target="item__2934.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 19 August 1916</note><note target="item__2938.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 23 August 1916</note><note target="item__2963.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 13 December 1915</note><note target="item__2966.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 15 December 1915</note><note target="item__2967.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 15 December 1915</note><note target="item__2968.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 16 December 1915</note><note target="item__3040.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Jim Fitzhenry to Bridgit Fitzhenry, 24 August 1916</note><note target="item__3168.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Peter Mooney to his sister Katie Mooney, 29 May 1916</note><note target="item__3170.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Peter Mooney to his sister Katie Mooney, 29 May 1916</note><note target="item__3393.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Michael Wallace to his friend Stíophán Conneely, 29 July 1916</note><note target="item__3476.xml" type="mentions">Postcard from George D. Roche to Nancy McCarthy, 2 September 1916</note><note target="item__3477.xml" type="mentions">Postcard from George D. Roche to Nancy McCarthy, 24 April 1916</note><note target="item__3478.xml" type="mentions">Postcard from George D. Roche to Nancy McCarthy, 8 March 1916 </note><note target="item__3479.xml" type="mentions">Postcard from George D. Roche to Nancy McCarthy, 28 February 1916</note><note target="item__4158.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Terence Duffin to his father Adam Duffin, 10 November 1915</note><note target="item__4162.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Terence Duffin to his mother Maria Duffin, 26 November 1915</note><note target="item__4479.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Francis M. Shaw to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 10 March 1916</note><note target="item__4522.xml" type="mentions">Letter from John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 10 April 1916</note><note target="item__4528.xml" type="mentions">Letter from John Fitzgibbon to Fr Provincial Thomas V. Nolan, 8 December 1917</note><note target="item__5075.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 5 December 1917</note><note target="item__5080.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 1, November, 1917</note><note target="item__5095.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 17, April, 1917</note><note target="item__5097.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 4, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5100.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 19, December, 1917</note><note target="item__5105.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 12, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5109.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 17, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5114.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell, 18 June 1917</note><note target="item__5116.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 19, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5117.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 19, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5118.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 26, November, 1917</note><note target="item__5123.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 16, August, 1917</note><note target="item__5124.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 20, August, 1917</note><note target="item__5132.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 30, September, 1917</note><note target="item__5134.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 6, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5135.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 8, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5137.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 15, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5138.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 17, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5140.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 6, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5141.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell Sr. 8, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5143.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell  to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 28, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5147.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 19, August, 1917</note><note target="item__5149.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton  Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 28, August, 1917</note><note target="item__5150.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 29 September, 1917</note><note target="item__5151.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 4, October 1917</note><note target="item__5152.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 7, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5154.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 16, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5155.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 26 July 1917</note><note target="item__5156.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 2 August 1917</note><note target="item__5157.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 9 August 1917</note><note target="item__5158.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 12 August 1917</note><note target="item__5159.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 18, August, 1917</note><note target="item__5160.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 24, August, 1917</note><note target="item__5161.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 1, September, 1917</note><note target="item__5162.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 27, September, 1917</note><note target="item__5163.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 1, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5165.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 10, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5166.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 13, October</note><note target="item__5253.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 21, May, 1916</note><note target="item__5255.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 10, December, 1917</note><note target="item__5257.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 29, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5258.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 10, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5259.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 30, June, 1917</note><note target="item__5262.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 6, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5264.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 9, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5265.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 17, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5267.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 13, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5268.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 15, April, 1917</note><note target="item__5269.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 20, April, 1917</note><note target="item__5270.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 21, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5271.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 23, July, 1917</note><note target="item__5273.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Robert Tyrrell 20, April, 1917</note><note target="item__5274.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 17, November, 1917</note><note target="item__5275.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 10, September, 1917</note><note target="item__5276.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 10, November, 1917</note><note target="item__5277.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 4, September, 1917</note><note target="item__5278.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 17, October, 1917</note><note target="item__5279.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 15, November, 1917</note><note target="item__5281.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 5 September 1917</note><note target="item__5284.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 6 November 1917</note><note target="item__5285.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 18 November 1917</note><note target="item__5286.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to William Tyrrell Sr, 22 October 1917</note><note target="item__5287.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to William Tyrrell Sr., 27 October 1917</note><note target="item__5289.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 29 October 1917</note><note target="item__5290.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 22 August 1917</note><note target="item__5291.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 23 October 1917</note><note target="item__5292.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to William Tyrrell Sr., 30 October 1917</note><note target="item__5293.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 4 November 1917</note><note target="item__5295.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell, 3 January 1918</note><note target="item__5296.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Elizabeth Tyrrell, 6 January 1917</note><note target="item__5297.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to William Tyrrell Sr., 27 December 1917</note><note target="item__5298.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Robert Tyrrell, 24 December 1917</note><note target="item__5299.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to William Tyrrell Sr., 23 December 1917</note><note target="item__5301.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to the Tyrell Family, 16 December 1917</note><note target="item__5302.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 21, December, 1917</note><note target="item__5303.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 19 November 1917</note><note target="item__5907.xml" type="mentions">Postcard from Fr Willie Doyle SJ to Sister M. Anthony, 7 April 1916</note><note target="item__6311.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 3, December, 1917</note><note target="item__6355.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell, 27 November 1917</note><note target="item__6366.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell. to William J.H. Tyrrell 5, August, 1917</note><note target="item__6377.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to William J.H. Tyrrell 5, October, 1917</note><note target="item__6386.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 25, July, 1917</note><note target="item__6397.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell 9, October, 1917</note><note target="item__6408.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Elizabeth Tyrrell 3, October, 1917</note><note target="item__6494.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Victoria Mary Tyrrell, 19 November 1919</note><note target="item__6505.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Upton Tyrrell to Miss Miller 29, June, 1917</note><note target="item__6538.xml" type="mentions">Letter from William Tyrrell Jr. to William Tyrrell Sr., 5 November 1917</note></noteGrp></place>
            </listPlace><listPerson><person xml:id="letters1916_person-0931" n="Wilfrid Bliss Spender">
               <persName>Wilfrid Bliss Spender</persName>
            <noteGrp><note target="item__0746.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 12 June 1916</note><note target="item__0747.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 13 June 1916</note><note target="item__0749.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 17 June 1916</note><note target="item__0750.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 19 June 1916</note><note target="item__0751.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 21 June 1916</note><note target="item__0752.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 24 June 1916</note><note target="item__0753.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 30 June 1916</note><note target="item__0755.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 3 July 1916</note><note target="item__0758.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 9 July 1916</note><note target="item__0759.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 11 July 1916</note><note target="item__0761.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 12 July 1916</note><note target="item__0763.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 15 July 1916</note><note target="item__0765.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 16 July 1916</note><note target="item__0766.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 16 July 1916</note><note target="item__0767.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender, 16 July 1916</note><note target="item__0769.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 18 July 1916</note><note target="item__0770.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 21 July 1916</note><note target="item__0771.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 21 July 1916</note><note target="item__0772.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 22 July 1916</note><note target="item__0773.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 22 July 1916</note><note target="item__0774.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 23 July 1916</note><note target="item__0775.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 24 July 1916</note><note target="item__0776.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 27 July 1916</note><note target="item__0778.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 29 July 1916</note><note target="item__0779.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to Lady Lillian Spender, 28 July 1916</note><note target="item__0780.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to Lillian Spender, 30 July 1916</note><note target="item__0781.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 31 July 1916</note><note target="item__0782.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to Lillian Spender, 31 July 1916</note><note target="item__0783.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 1 August 1916</note><note target="item__0784.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 4 August 1916</note><note target="item__0785.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 6 August 1916</note><note target="item__0786.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 7 August 1916</note><note target="item__0790.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to Lillian Spender, 8 August 1916</note><note target="item__0792.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to Lillian Spender, 9 August 1916</note><note target="item__0793.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to Lillian Spender, 9 August 1916</note><note target="item__0794.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 10 August 1916</note><note target="item__0795.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 12 August 1916</note><note target="item__0796.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 13 August 1916</note><note target="item__0797.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 14 August 1916</note><note target="item__0798.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 15 August 1916</note><note target="item__0801.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 20 August 1916</note><note target="item__0802.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 21 August 1916</note><note target="item__0803.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 22 August 1916</note><note target="item__0804.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 24 August 1916</note><note target="item__0805.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 25 August 1916</note><note target="item__0808.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 27 August 1916</note><note target="item__0809.xml" type="mentions">Note from Sir Wilfrid Spender, 28 August 1916</note><note target="item__0825.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 18 December 1915</note><note target="item__0855.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 19 December 1915</note><note target="item__0856.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 20 December 1915</note><note target="item__0857.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 21 December 1915</note><note target="item__0858.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his family, 21 December 1915</note><note target="item__0859.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 22 December 1915</note><note target="item__0861.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, 23 December 1915</note><note target="item__0890.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife, Lady Lillian Spender, 2 January 1916</note><note target="item__0891.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to his wife, Lillian Spender, 9 January 1916</note><note target="item__2849.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sir Wilfrid Spender to his wife Lady Lillian Spender, [January 1916]</note><note target="item__4134.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to his family, 3 November 1915</note><note target="item__4171.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Wilfrid Spender to Lillian Spender, 12 November 1915</note></noteGrp></person>
            </listPerson></back></text>
</TEI>