Letter from Henry W. Nevinson to Gertrude Bannister, 10 July 1916

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Letter from Henry W. Nevinson to Gertrude Bannister, 10 July 1916

1 From Henry W. Nevinson, 4, Downside Crescent, Hampstead, N.W. July 10/16 Dear Mrs Bannister, I have today sent out
as follows :

John Mansfield - Shaw's appeal

W.B. Yeats - ' '

Prof. Edw Browne - ' '

Lady Barlow - Lt. Davies's '

Diarmid McCarthy - Shaw's '

Galsworthy - Lt. Davies's '

Edw. Carpente Carpenter - Lt Davies's '

Wilfrid S. Blunt - ' '

Zangwill - Shaw's '

C.P. Scott - Lt Davies's '
(Manchester Guardian)

11) Canon Scott Holland - ' '

In each case I have urged
them to write personally to
Asquith. 2 If you want my name, it
had better go in the Native
Race petition, and in
brackits you might add
['Investigator of the Angola
& San ThomÃ© slavery'] Please let me hear as
soon as possible how you get
on & what more there is to
try. I don't think overlapping
matters now. Everything depends
on immediate actions. Yours most truly HWN I called on the Bishop of Oxford
yesterday. He was out, but I wrote
a letter there - M Cuddesdon.

A letter from writer, war correspondent and crusading journalist Henry W. Nevinson (1846-1951) to Gertrude Bannister (later Parry), a cousin of Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916). The letter was written while Casement was 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. He writes that he has forwarded appeals for support for Casement to a number of individuals, including poet W.B. Yeats (1865-1939). The appeals were written by playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1960) and a Lieutenant Davin. The recipients were encouraged to write to the British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) in support of Casement. Nevinson also mentions including his own name on one of the petitions.Bannister was heavily involved in raising public support for Casement during his trial for treason. In the 1900s Nevinson had worked closely with Casement in raising awareness of slavery in western Africa, and he worked extensively for the campaign to save Casement. Casement was hanged on 3 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__1292.html)