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A letter from Fr. John S. MacMahon providing a character reference for Francis Smith. Included is a telegraph dated 8 May 1916. The telegraph, which is written on Dublin Metropolitan Police Telegraph paper, is from College Street Station and requests that Francis Smyth of 6 Albert Place be allowed access to his business Place 34 Upper Baggot Street. Francis Smith lived at 6 Albert Place with his parents and siblings at the time of the Easter Rising in 1916. Albert Place is not far from Mount Street Bridge, where a significant battle took place during Easter week.
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).