Letter from James Pollock to his mother, 24 September 1916 Letters 1916-1923 James Huey Hamill Pollock

This work was originally published by Maynooth University in Ireland in 2017. In 2026 this data, stored in a relational database was extracted and converted into this TEI/XML document.

 Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities Vienna, AT 2026

This is an open access work licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC 4.0).

 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Pollock Family Papers, D1581/2/2 https://letters1916.ie/item/6134 English James Huey Hamill Pollock 1916-09-24 Mrs Pollock Ishlan, Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland Male 1982 Personal Relations World War I (1914-1918)

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).

 24-9-16 Dear Mother I'm still in very muchthe same place. These are a few photographsI took ages & ages I only found themin a box of winter kit I openedyesterday so as to get out myheaviest clothing. We have notstruck snow yet but its gettingon in that direction. At times itis quite & warm like todayat other times it is blowing &wet as it can be with bittercold. You might send me out acap badge write t Phillips DameSt, Dublin for it, most of the Belfastpeople have another one which fadesthe last one I got in Belfast has gonea dirty yellow instead of being green & the harp is a rotten tarnishedgrey. There is no news what I can tellyou & in any case there is nothingto write about. The two booksMargaret sent me, A Tall Ship &Naval Occasions, are excelent things& it is quite a relief getting things worth reading altho it is a awfulwaste sending them out here as theycan not be carried about in25lbs of kit very easily. I have had no mail nowfor ages & ages love t allJimmy Ishlan, Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland Letter from James Pollock to his mother, 24 September 1916 James Huey Hamill Pollock Letter from James Pollock to his mother, 24 September 1916