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Kilkelly, Ireland 1860, my dear and loving

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son John,

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Your good friend schoolmaster Pat

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McNamara

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Was so good as to write these words down.

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Your brothers have all got to find work in



England,

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The house is so empty and sad.

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The crop of potatoes is sorely infected,

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A third to a half of them bad.