![Letter from Roger Casement to his cousins "Gee" [Gertrude Bannister] and "Eilis" [Elizabeth Bannister] c/o Mrs [Alice Stopford] Green, 36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, S.W.,](/IIIF/000520000/000514651/vtls000514651_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
Letter from Roger Casement to his cousins "Gee" [Gertrude Bannister] and "Eilis" [Elizabeth Bannister] c/o Mrs [Alice Stopford] Green, 36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, S.W.,
1916 August 2.
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| Summary: | Casement’s letter to his cousins outlines his final wishes including his hopes for Ireland “God will surely give freedom to Ireland. Irishmen live unselfishly and die faithfully and fearlessly for Ireland, as the men of 1916 have done, and no power of man, or superior [God?] can withhold freedom from men so vowed … Ireland alone went forth to assail evil, as David, Goliath – unarmed save with a pebble – and she has slain, I pray to God, the power and [boast?] and pride of Empire. That is the achievement of the boys of 1916 and on it the living shall build a sterner purpose and bring it to a greater end”, his thoughts regarding his death “And if I die as I think is fated, tomorrow morning, I shall die with my sins forgiven and God’s pardon o my soul. And I shall die with many good and brave men … If it be said I shed tears – remember tears come not from cowardice, but from sorrow…” |
| In collection: | Roger Casement Papers (2012 Release) 1882-1934 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| Notes: | Letter written on the blank side of letter to Roger Casement from Captain John H. Camp, Kingfisher, Oklahoma (Camp sailed for the American Baptist Missionary Union aboard the S.S. Henry Reed (as stated at the end of his letter) on the Upper Congo River and its tributaries between 1885 and 1894, collecting geological, biological and ethnological specimens), July 1916. Casement was prohibited from having paper to write on after the verdict of guilty had been pronounced at the end of June 1916 hence this letter being written on the blank side of Camp's letter. Inscriptions on envelope: "R's last letter 2/8/16" and "Final message to Ireland on eve of R.C.'s execution". Physical description: 2 items including envelope. more |
| Arrangement: | Sub-sub-fond. |
