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This is a letter from Hannah Murphy to an unknown recipient. Hannah starts off the letter saying that a policeman is asking her for money for her child that is in a home of some kind and she explains how she has no money. In the letter Murphy pleads with the recipient to get her children back, as she has no company when her husband is off fighting, although it is not fully clear where the children are one can assume that that had been put in a home because the family had little money. Murphy describes how she wished to have them back now and that she would pay for them in the home if she could afford it but does not earn enough. She asks for the recipients help in the matter.
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).