Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916 Letters 1916-1923 George Bernard Shaw

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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.

 National Library of Ireland Roger Casement Papers, Collection List A15, Ms. 10,075/1 https://letters1916.ie/item/1279 English George Bernard Shaw 1916-07-12 Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England Gertrude Bannister 45 Connaught Street, Dublin Male Easter Rising Ireland 1916 Politics

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 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. Miss Gertrude Bannister, 45 Connaught St W. Bernard Shaw Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916 45 Connaught Street, Dublin Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916 George Bernard Shaw Letter from Joseph Michael Stanley to George Bernard Shaw, 28 March 1916Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916Letter from Clement Shorter to George Bernard Shaw, 7 July 1916Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Mabel FitzGerald, 25 May 1916 Gertrude Bannister Letter from Gertrude Bannister to Colonel Maurice Moore, 22 July 1916Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916Letter from Dora Shorter to Gertrude Bannister, 1916Letter from C. Spencer Smith to Gertrude Bannister, 29 July 1916Letter from C. Spencer Smith to Gertrude Bannister, 31 July 1916Letter from C. Spencer Smith to Gertrude Bannister, 31 July 1916Telegram from Brixton Prison to Gertrude Bannister, 20 May 1916Letter from Henry W. Nevinson to Gertrude Bannister, 10 July 1916Letter from Henry W. Nevinson to Gertrude Bannister, 12 July 1916Letter from J.S. Northcote to Gertrude Bannister, 31 July 1916Letter from E. Blackwell to Gertrude Bannister, 2 August 1916Telegram from Sidney Parry to Gertrude Bannister, 29 August 1916Letter from A. Holmes to Gertrude Bannister, 23 July 1916Letter from Gertrude Bannister to C. Spencer Smith, 29 July 1916