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Wed 04 Apr 2007Pearse's last letter to fetch €100,000The final instructions of Pádraig Pearse, the leader of the 1916 Rising, handwritten and signed in a letter just hours before his death, could fetch up to €100,000 when it is auctioned at Adam's and Mealy's "Independence" sale on Tuesday, April 17th.Pearse's letter, addressed to General Maxwell, Commander of the British Forces in Ireland, is one of only three handwritten and signed by Pearse from his condemned cell in Kilmainham Prison on May 2nd, 1916, just hours before his execution.