Letter from Mary O'Nolan to Alice Stopford Green, 25 July 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Mary O'Nolan

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This letter is from Mary O'Nolan, address 5 Warwick Terrace, Leeson Park, Dublin to Alice Stopford Green, (1847-1929), historian, nationalist and friend of Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916). Mary O'Nolan is busily campaigning for Roger Casement, attempting to have his death sentence commuted. Casement had been arrested on Banna Strand on the eve of the Easter Rising and tried for treason. She mentions the king, the US government, John Redmond and Colonel Moore in Buswells Hotel.

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 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 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 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 Hoping most earnestly our united efforts will be crowned with success. Yours sincerely Mary O'Nolan Mary O'Nolan Letter from Mary O'Nolan to Alice Stopford Green, 25 July 1916 Alice Stopford Green Letter from Alice Stopford Green to Herbert Henry Asquith, 17 May 1916.Letter from Alice Stopford Green to General Botha, 16 June 1916.Letter from Mary O'Nolan to Alice Stopford Green, 25 July 1916Letter from Michael Fogarty to Alice Stopford Green, 1916 July 26.Letter from Michael James Quin to Alice Stopford Green, 28 July 1916Letter from Maurice Moore to Alice Stopford Green, 27 July 1916Letter from M. J. O'Donnell to Alice Stopford Green, 28 July 1916Letter from Fr Michael O'Flanagan to Alice Stopford Green, 30 July 1916Letter from Joseph Delaney to Alice Stopford Green, 29 July 1916Letter from John J. O'Mahony to Alice Stopford Green, 29 August 1916Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 6 August 1916Letter from James O'Shea to Alice Stopford Green, 30 July 1916Letter from Ella Young to Alice Stopford Green, 9 August 1916Letter from Alice Stopford Green to John Quinn, 27 August 1916 5 Warwick Terrace, Leeson Park, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Mary O'Nolan to Alice Stopford Green, 25 July 1916