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Postcard from George D. Roche to Nancy and Eily McCarthy, written as a covering letter for a French paper Le Miroir - “It is the best out here”. He has been far from a village or shops for 6 weeks and they are living in a small wooden hut in a field “but the Padre’s gramophone is playing now (can’t you hear it?) and we are quite comfy”. Nancy McCarthy was a well-practised letter-writer, and her collection of correspondence spans eighty years. This postcard is one of seven included in the Letters of 1916 collection written to Nancy by her uncle, George D. Roche, on active service with the 7th London regiment during World War I.
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).