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               <p>H. McGrath to Charlie Daly, 4 February 1923. Sends her regards. </p>
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             P41/2/12/1   P.S. I suppose the Censor is saying     to himself, as he has every     night to say, yes, written from a     padded cell!    The Dirty Port   Sunday   4.2.23    <seg type="foreign">A Cara</seg>   A few lines in answer to<lb/>your latest masterpiece. I think you should<lb/>have been made Govenor of the six<lb/>countys, you see, I wish you well such<lb/>an exciting time you would have. Anyhow<lb/>it would help to <seg type="unclear">???</seg><lb/>b<seg type="del">iting</seg> sarcasm of yourself and the famous<lb/>Miss Blake. I hope she told you that<lb/>I am a jam pot collector. You see I<lb/>must do something for a living and work<lb/>is scarce. If I could get back to my<lb/>home in Craig's Kingdom, but sure their is<lb/>no good in dreaming of things which may<lb/>never mature. Jimmy knows as well as<lb/>Miss Blake does that I am a cracked<lb/>mug without a handle, sporting the Belleek<lb/>Pottery trade mark. As I have ceased<lb/>corresponding with that lady. I would<lb/>like if you could see your. way to<lb/>become a medium for this time, and 
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               8/2/23      <hi rend="underline"> Thursday </hi>  <hi rend="underline"> Forgot </hi> to     post this     on Monday.     Can you       f  or  give     hurried     <hi rend="underline">scrawl</hi>     <hi rend="underline">h</hi>   warn her to lie low, the reason for this<lb/>warning is the fellow who discovered the<lb/>tomb of Tutenkhamen, is supposed to be on<lb/>his way to <seg type="unclear">Gortahook</seg>, as he has good<lb/>reason for believing, that the animated<lb/>corpse of Tutenkhamen wife is living in<lb/>a cave near Cashels girl school. You might<lb/>also tell her, that the <seg type="unclear">anima</seg>she<lb/>lost in Bundoran last summer, was found<lb/>a few days ago, and that she can<lb/>have it, on applying to Mr <seg type="unclear">Pend</seg>down her way in the Summer, and<lb/>if you hear a rumbling sound, from<lb/>that direction, you are to understand, that<lb/>it is she arriving in no mans land.  Are you allowed newspapers. if so, I<lb/>could send you on our local rags.  I wrote to some Ballyshannon Boys,<lb/>who are in Newbridge, of Course they<lb/>never write to me but I don't blame them.  Tell Mr Larkin that I am going to<lb/>write him some day in the near future:<lb/>I am saying this with the name<lb/>that my best friends know me by.   Yes etc The Savage  
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            <noteGrp><note target="item__4945.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Charlie Daly to Ellen Daly, 31 October 1921</note><note target="item__4946.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Charlie Daly to Ellen Daly, 9 November 1921</note><note target="item__5010.xml" type="mentions">Letter on behalf of Chief of Staff to All Divisional Commandants, 30 November 1921</note><note target="item__5013.xml" type="mentions">Christmas Card from Cis Doherty to Charlie Daly, [December 1922]</note><note target="item__5016.xml" type="mentions">Letter from H. McGrath to Charlie Daly, 4 February 1923</note><note target="item__5204.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Cornelius Daly to Charlie Daly, 19 February 1923</note><note target="item__5222.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Charlie Daly to Kate Allman, 30 October 1922</note><note target="item__5363.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Charlie Daly to Sinéad Ring, 1 February 1923</note><note target="item__5370.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Róise Ní Dhómhnaill to Charlie Daly, December 1922</note><note target="item__5371.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Róise Ní Dómnaill to Charlie Daly [January 1923]</note><note target="item__5373.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Róise Ní Dómnaill to Charlie Daly, [February/March 1923]</note><note target="item__6234.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Charlie Daly to May Daly, 21 February 1923</note><note target="item__6245.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Susan Daly to Charlie Daly, 29 January 1923</note><note target="item__6483.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Sheila Doogan to Charlie Daly, 8 February 1923</note><note target="item__6618.xml" type="mentions">Letter from Ellen Daly to her son Charlie Daly [Cormac Ó Dálaigh], December 1922</note></noteGrp></person>
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