Letter from Robert Monteith (1880-1956) to Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916) in February 1916. Monteith was the commander of the Irish Brigade, appointed by Casement. Casement had spent over a year 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, Casement had 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 Beverly to Ireland but Casement and Sergeant Beverly (Daniel Bailey) were captured after they landed in Kerry on the eve of the Easter Rising. Casement was hanged for treason in London in August 1916. Monteith writes that he had received Casement's last two letters and is glad he is improving in health. He encloses letters from others for Casement, including one from Zerhusen, a German officer. He also writes that Casement should not worry about their moving, 'I can't worry the H.Q. people more than I am doing, God knows we all want to get away from this awful place as quickly as possible', despairs that he had no communication from America yet and no one to confide in and mentions a letter from Count von Papen, the military attache.