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This is a letter from James Hamilton, a butler working in England, to the secretary of state at the Foreign Office, Edwars Grey (1862-1933). This letter was sent during the period in which there was no active chief secretary for Ireland after the resignation of Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) following the administrative failure before the 1916 Rising. In his letter, Hamilton explains that he is a butler working for Dorothy Scobell (b. 1893) in Bournemouth and that he wishes to travel to Belfast for two weeks. Hamilton requests that the necessary documents are sent out.
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).