This letter was written by Michael James Quin (b.1862), a priest from Co. Louth. The letter was addressed to Alice Stopford Green (1847-1929). Green the wife of historian John Richard Green, (1837-1883), was a nationalist, involved in the Howth gun-running and a historian in her own right. She was shocked by the 1916 rising and horrified that Casement had been plotting to obtain German assistance. Nonetheless, she visited Casement in prison and lobbied hard to prevent his execution. In the letter Quin states that he is enclosing a petition in favour of Roger Casement (1864-1916). Roger Casement had been imprisoned in London after he had been arrested while landing on the coast of Kerry in a submarine on the eve of the Easter Rising. A campaign was launched featuring many prominent figures such as W.B. Yeats and George Bernard Shaw to secure a reprieve for Casement but he was hanged on 3 August 1916. Quin believes that Casement's execution will rouse deep feeling throughout Ireland.