A letter from Ernest Blythe (1889-1975) to George Gavan Duffy (1882-1951). Only the first page of the letter has survived. Blythe has been detained in Brixton Prison, England, and he has seven days to make representations. He asks Duffy to advise and assist him. George Gavan Duffy was an Irish politician, barrister and judge. He unsuccessfully defended Roger Casement at his trial for high treason after the Easter Rising. Earnest Blythe was an organiser for the Irish Volunteers. He had been arrested under the Defence of the Realm Act. He was released from prison in England before the Easter Rising but was rearrested there during Easter week 1916.