Letter from Robert Monteith (1880-1956) to Roger Casement (1864-1916). Moneith was the Commander of the Irish Brigade, appointed by Casement. Casement spent eighteen months in total in Germany attempting to secure German support for an uprising in Ireland and raising an ultimately unsuccessful brigade of Irish soldiers in German prisoner of war camps. By April 1916, he had become become disillusioned with German assistance and marginalized from the plans for the Rising. He believed there should be no rising without sufficient German support and when he realised that it was going ahead with only a small supply of German arms, he traveled to Ireland to prevent it from taking place. The Germans supplied a submarine to transport Casement, Monteith and Sergeant Beverly (Daniel Bailey) to Ireland but Casement and Beverly were captured after they landed in Kerry on the eve of the Easter Rising. Casement was hanged for treason in London in August 1916. This letter refers to Monteith's work with the Irish Brigade. He writes about a letter from a German officer, Zerhusen, about his uniform being 'in order & merely requires the formal sanction of the General Officer Commanding' and also mentions that things are not as bad as they had seemed and all is quiet.