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This is a transcription of a letter from a former Wandsworth prisoner now in the Upper Camp, Frongoch (Prisoner 1107) thanking members of the Ladies Committee on behalf of ‘all of the Wandsworth boys’ and describing the comparably superior conditions at Frongoch. This transcription is a continuation (and part of) MS 8434 :23-4. The James Daly letter has been transcribed and sent with an introduction and postscript referring to other letters. According to the 1936 Roll of Honour, James Daly served at the Bolands Mill Garrison during the Rising. From the Art Ó Briain Papers held in the National Library of Ireland. NLI records indicate that MS 8434 /23 is a collection (13 items) of letters from prisoners in Frongoch and Reading jails. Art Ó Briain (1872-1949) was Honorary Secretary of The Irish National Relief Fund which was set up to provide assistance to the dependents of those executed in 1916, those sentenced to prison and to the prisoners themselves.
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).