John P. Sutton to Michael Davitt, 12th November 1888. IE TCD MS 9397/1485
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Abstract
IE TCD MS 9397/1485: Letter from John P. Sutton, Secretary, Irish National League of America, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States to Michael Davitt dated 12th November 1888: "I send you an extended a/c of Land and National Land League work in Canada. My own action is so bound up with the matter owing to the accident of being emissary of the League that you must absolve me from the sin of egotism. I merely tell you all that I know. Compare it with what you may learn from other sources and you will find I am pretty accurate. Of course you will abreviate the account I give, as I merely write for your information. My life is hardly worth a notice, but I give it in all its uninteresting details. I have done an humble Irishman's honest share. I have had no bank account to give a gilt edge to my services and thus often the work of my brains has appeared above another man's signature. Our present president [=John Fitzgerald] inaugurated the fashion of ignoring the Treasurer [=Rev. Charles O'Reilly] and Secretary and his wealth has given him the reputation of ability. By God - it is cheaply purchased. What is ten thousand dollars to men who count their worth by the millions, but the world is so constituted that we must put them to the front. I have written for Mr. F. a long sketch of Mr. F.'s life for you, he is having it done over on the typewriter and will send it to you when finished. All I ask from you is that Michael Davitt in his history of the Irish movement will acknowledge that John P. Sutton did an honest day's work in the fight for Irish liberty, to be named by you as one of the humble workers for the Cause in this country will be the only reward I can hope for, and it is one I shall be proud of. Our elections are over, the horrible chain of Irish Democratic thralldom is burst for ever. Never again will frauds and bosses in the name of Ireland and Catholicity array us in solid phalanx against one half of our fellow citizens. I had to be mute owing to my position, but today I glory in the emancipation of my race from the control of damned political schemers who would have it that the Democratic party had a mortgage on the Irish vote. We are now respected by both parties and the honest Irishmen on both sides will be appreciated in preference to the frauds who would drag the sacred cause of Ireland into the gutter to gain their selfish political ends. It is pitiable to hear men voting today on issues of forty years ago. What must Americans think of our intelligence when Irish American newspapers call upon Irish American citizens to vote against Harrison becasue his ancestor was said to have been one of Cromwells generals? Again does it not insult our intelligence to ask us to vote against Harrison because some Crank imagined he heard Gen. Harrison speak disparagingly of the Irish, inspite of his public utterances on the Irish question? How bitterly the dirty miserable Irish American Catholic sheets have assailed Ford and Egan, [Finerty?], Sullivan and all who would dare kick over the Democratic [traces?]. The election has in every way been a grand triumph for the Irish in America. What a damned farce that Royal Commisson is? If Parnell is adjudged guilty what of it? If innocent cui bono? Of course it may have been necessary but the odds are terrible. Well accept my hearty good wishes for yourself and family... I will write a letter from Fitzgerald to Ludwig endorsing his venture and calling upon the members of the League to show their appreciation of Irish music by giving him a generous patronage."
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.349 | 0.198 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".