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FRANZ H.J. ZERHAUSEN R. at M.
3 Feb. 1916 31 st January 1916 Dear Sir Roger, I beg to thank you for your kind letter,
and I am very glad to hear that you
are feeling better and sincerely hope that you
will soon be quite better. I am quite willing to go with you anywhere,
but of course I am not my own master,
and it would therefore depend if you could
arrange this with the authorities. I am, dear Sir,
Very respectfully yours F. Zerhusen
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Letter from Franz H. J. Zerhusen to Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916) thanking him for
his letter. Zerhusen was an officer in the German army who worked with Casement's
Irish Brigade made up of Irishmen held as prisoners in German prisoner of war camps.
He writes that he is delighted to hear that Casement has been feeling better and that
he would be 'quite willing to go with you anywhere, but of course I am not my own
master'. He would go with Casement if Casement could arrange it with the authorities.
The letter is taken from a collection of letters, poems, articles and other documents
of Roger Casement and his family. Covering his career in the British Diplomatic Service
and activities in the Irish Revolutionary movement, 1889-1945.