Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916

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Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916

1 Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts. Station : Wheathampstead, G.N.R. 21/4 miles. Telegrams : Bernard Shaw, Codicote. 10 Adelphi Terrace W.C. 12 th July 1916. Dear Miss Bannister Read the enclosed, which you need not return. Shorter is married
to Dora Sigerson : hence his sympathy. I have told him that you have
copies of three other petitions. Please send him copies of them : he might
get signatures. Both the Times & the Daily News refuse my letter : the D.N.
because it wishes to prevent the sentence being carried out and the T. probably
for the opposite reason. Yours sincerely G. Bernard Shaw. 2 Miss Gertrude Bannister, 45 Connaught St W. Bernard Shaw

A letter from playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) to Gertrude Parry (née Bannister). The letter refers to an enclosure that has not survived, and a letter by Shaw that was refused for publication in the Times and Daily News newspapers. Gertrude Bannister was a cousin of Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916). The letter was written while Casement was imprisoned after he had been arrested while landing on the coast of Kerry in a submarine on the eve of the Easter Rising. Bannister and Shaw were heavily involved in raising public support for Casement during his trial for treason. Casement was hanged in London in August 1916.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__1279.html)