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             TELEPHONE <lb/>2201 VICTORIA.   5. EATON PLACE. <lb/>S.W.    10th December 1915.   Dear Mr Staples,   In reply to your letter of the 7th, I have already been <lb/>informed by the War Office that there are no vacancies in the <lb/>Army Service Corps, for commissions. If your son will call <lb/>upon me when he is in Town I shall be pleased to see him.   Yours truly,   Edward Carson   R. Ponsonby Staples, Esq., <lb/>Lissan House, <lb/>Cookstown, <lb/>Co. Tyrone.  
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