1 5 Warwick Terrace Leeson Park Dublin 25th July Dear Mrs. Green We are shocked to see the date fixed for
the execution. Still we do not give up hope,
& are working still hard for reprieve.
I enclose copy of letter sent by
our Reprieve Com. to the King today.
Also copy of cablegram to Botha.
Could you also petition King to
exercise prerogative of mercy,
& could you get at Botha &
other Colonial premiers? Is U.S. Government
doing nothing? I see mass
petitions are being sent in by
A.O.H. & other Irish American bodies,
but will the U.S. Government move?
These horrible slanders on our
friend have injured our prospects
of success. Unhappily many 2
who do not know him personally believe
them. Time will indicate his
character without doubt, but it is of
urgent importance that the
vindication should be immediate,
if possible. I wrote to Mr. Gavan
Duffy asking if you or he would
write to the Times on this subject. Will you do so? And would anyone
else whose word carries weight
do so? We sent another batch of
signed petitions to-day to Prime
Minister - the third batch, containing
many influential signatures
& we will continue sending in
petitions till we hear the matter
is finally settled — numbers
of these petitions are being
circulated through the country
& are being extensively signed,
Miss French Mullen who is in
charge of our petition is crossing
tonight to London with a big 3
batch of signed petitions. She has
been working on more democratic
lines than our Com. went on,
& it has got on easier. We only
asked people of position at first;
then we got out a second kind of
petition which we are sending
broad cast to less important people —
the Lord Mayor & 28 members
of Dublin Corporation have
signed. Col. Moore has written press—
ingly to John Redmond on the
subject, & is going to Ed. Freeman
tonight to urge him to deal editor—
ially with matter, as well as to publish
letters from him. I am going to Ed. Independent.
If you are writing please reply
to Col. Moore - Buswell's Hotel. He &
I are doing the correspondence
between us — but I'll be absent from
Dublin from 27th to 30th 4 Hoping most earnestly our united
efforts will be crowned with success. Yours sincerely
Mary O'Nolan