Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann National Library of Ireland Collection List no. A15 Roger Casement Papers (MS 13,073 – MS 13,092) (Accession No. 863) 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. CONTENTS I. LETTERS TO ROGER CASEMENT, 1895-1916. .................................................... 4 II. LETTERS FROM ROGER CASEMENT TO HIS COUSIN GERTRUDE BANNISTER (MRS. SIDNEY PARRY), 1889-1915 ................................................... 14 III. LETTERS PRINCIPALLY TO GERTRUDE BANNISTER (MRS SIDNEY PARRY), 1916-36............................................................................................................ 16 IV. LETTERS AND PAPERS OF CASEMENT FAMILY, 1850-1916..................... 18 V. LETTERS TO ROGER CASEMENT AND OTHERS, INCLUDING SOME LETTERS BY CASEMENT, c.1900-1936.................................................................... 19 VI. ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF ROGER CASEMENT........................................ 21 VII. LETTERS TO ROGER CASEMENT AND COPY LETTERS FROM CASEMENT, 1901-1914................................................................................................. 22 VIII. CORRESPONDENCE OF ROGER CASEMENT WITH THE FOREIGN OFFICE, 1898-1913 ........................................................................................................ 24 IX. ARTICLES, POEMS, LECTURES, BY AND ABOUT ROGER CASEMENT, 1890-1916 ......................................................................................................................... 25 X. ‘CONGO CONFIDENTIAL’.................................................................................... 26 XI. CASEMENT’S JOURNEY TO BERLIN AND ACTIVITIES IN GERMANY, 1914-16 ............................................................................................................................. 27 XII. CASEMENT’S ACTIVITIES IN GERMANY AND THE IRISH BRIGADE, 1914-16 ............................................................................................................................. 28 XIII. THE CONGO, THE CONGO REFORM ASSOCIATION AND E. D. MOREL, 1903-12 ............................................................................................................ 31 XIV. BRAZIL AND ATROCITIES IN PUTMAYO, PERU ...................................... 32 XIV.i. Foreign Office correspondence, memos, and copy letters from Casement ....... 32 XIV.ii. Correspondence, 1909-1913............................................................................. 33 XIV.iii. Other Papers .................................................................................................... 33 XV. TRIAL, IMPRISONMENT, EXERCUTION AND BURIAL ............................ 36 XV.i. Papers in possession of solicitor George Gavin Duffy ....................................... 36 XV.ii. Other Documents ............................................................................................... 37 2 XVI. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS RELATING TO CASEMENT, AFRICA, PERU, IRELAND, GERMANY AND THE PARRY FAMILY, 1901-45 .............................. 39 XVII. ARTICLES ON ROGER CASEMENT............................................................. 41 3 I. LETTERS TO ROGER CASEMENT, 1895-1916. Correspondence of Roger Casement, arranged in several series. MS 13,073 /1 Lady Helena Acland-Hood 1 letter; 2 Nov. 1913 Juan Alizoi 1 letter; 31 Oct. 1910 Allison & Co 1 letter; 1 Sep. 1913 B. Alston 2 letters; 1907 American Consular Service 1 letter; 20 March 1915 Capt. L.C. Arbuthnot 1 letter; 5 Oct. 1911 John Campbell, 9th and 2nd Duke of Argyll, with Casement’s draft reply 2 items; July 1905 MS 13,073 /2 i Sir W. Baillie-Hamilton 3 letters; 1905 C. Barclay 1 letter; 16 Feb. 1907 Brian Barry 1 letter; 1 July 1910 R. Barry O’Brien 2 letters; undated W. Bell 3 letters; 1912-1913 C. M. Bennett 1 letter; 29 March 1912 R. J. Bennett 1 letter; 15 Aug. 1910 R. I. Best 1 letter; 15 Sep. 1905 MS 13,073 /2 ii P. Bigelow 3 letters; 1908-1913 Frederick Bishop 2 letters; 1910 William Blackwood 1 letter; 4 Sep. 1905 George M. Booth 2 letters; 1 July 1911 Booth & Co. 1 letter; 29 April 1911 Booth Line 1 letter; 28 June 1911 Bowles George, Nicholls 1 letter; 17 July 1905 Kathleen Boyd 1 letter; undated MS 13,073 /3 P. J. Bradley 1 letter; undated J. J. R. Brock 1 letter; 24 July 1902 W. H. Brown 1 letter; 1 Nov. 1913 D. Brown 1 letter; 10 Jan. 1913 H. R. F. Browne 1 letter; 20 March 1906 James Bryce 1 letter; 30 Jan. 1906 F. P. Byrne 1 letter; 23 May 1913 Travers Buxton 2 letters; 1911-1912 MS 13,073 /4 i Ronald Campbell 3 letters; 1912 A. Carnegie-Ross 4 letters; 1907-1912 David Carey 1 letter; 15 Feb. 1913 A. Ceffala 1 letter; 27 March 1905 Arthur Chapman 2 letters; 1907, 1909 T. Chambers 1 letter; 4 March 1911 4 Erskine Childers 1 letter; 29 Oct. 1913 MS 13,073 /4 ii W. A. Churchill 3 letters; 1907-1908 ‘Churton’ 1 letter; 1913 René Claparéde 1 letter; 16 May 1904 Connemara School Fund etc. 4 letters; c.1913 Connradh na Gaeilge 2 letters; 1908 Contemporary Review 1 letter; 9 Sep. 1913 Hans Coudenhove 2 letters; 1901, 1913 Cornelius C. Cregan 1 letter; 14 Jan. 1914 R. B. Cunninghame Greham 1 letter; 22 July 1912 MS 13,073 /5 H. P Dean 1 letter; 6 Nov. 1901 Charles V. Dilke 4 letters; 1904-1906 Margaret Dobbs 2 letters; undated R. Donovan 2 letters; 1905-1906 [F.] Drummond 1 letter; 26 Feb. 1912 [K.] Drummond 1 letter; 27 July 1912 Arthur J. Duff 1 letter; 28 Oct. 1907 James Duggan, N.T. 1 letter; 22 Aug. 1912 Mary Dunlop-Williams 2 letters; 1902 and undated MS 13,073 /6 i The Economist 1 letter; 10 July 1911 J. E. Ellery 1 letter; 5 Dec. 1907 R. A. Everett 1 letter; 11 Dec. 1903 Julian Fabre 1 letter; 17 Jan. 1911 Ffrench 2 letters; 1912 Kate M. A. Ffrench 2 letters; 1905 E. Fielding 1 letter; 9 Aug. 1912 Henry Foley 1 letter; 20 Oct. 1901 MS 13,073 /6 ii Lawson Forfeitt 3 letters; 1904, 1910 Fortnightly Review 2 letters; 1913 Walter Fox 4 letters; 1910-1911 Edw. Fry 1 letter; 30 Aug. 1912 MS 13.073 /7 i St. John Gaffney 1 letter; [1915] Hal. L. Gielgud 3 letters; 1912-1913 G. P. Gooch 1 letter; undated Martin Gosselin 2 letters; [1903] Charlotte Graham-Toler 3 letters; [1904] J. R. Green 2 notes from his letters made c.1913 [Alice Stopford] Green 1 telegram; 2 Dec. 1913 MS 13,073 /7 ii Edward Grey 1 telegram; 5 Feb. 1911 Arthur Griffith 1 letter; 20 Aug. 1908 5 - Grigg 1 letter; 8 July 1912 Frank Gritton (F.C.) 1 letter; 25 Aug. 1906 John Gritton (F.C.) 1 letter; 21 July 1911 Gustav Grunek 3 letters; 1908 Stephen Gwynn 3 letters; undated MS 13,073 /8 i W. Haggard 1 letter; 10 March 1913 Ernest Hambloch 4 letters; 1913 Nina Hamilton 4 letters; 1911-1912 J. Hanley-Williams 1 letters; 8 Nov. 1901 John H. Harris 1 letter; undated H. B. Harrison 1 letter; 8 Sep. 1910 MS 13,073 /8 ii T. H. Harte 2 letters; 1911 P. Hayes 1 letter; June 1907 Alice H. Henry 1 letter; 26 Oct. 1913 Fr. Hicks 1 letter; 22 Feb. 1911 Clement L. C. Hill 1 letter; 20 June 1911 (J. J.) Hobson 4 letters; 1911 Máire, Bean Artuir Hutton 2 letters; 1906-1907 MS 13,073 /9 Home Office/S. A. Harris 1 letter; 20 June 1911 - Hone 1 letter; undated Robert Hunter, Soir. 1 letter; 29 Nov. 1913 [M. Huxton] 1 letter ; undated Irish Society of Sheffield 1 letter; 28 Feb. 1914 G. H. Jessop 1 letter; 5 Nov. 1913 Carnegy Johnson 1 letter; 19 July 1912 [A] King Harding 3 letter; 1912 Thomas A. Kelly 1 letter; 27 June 1913 Lawrence J. Kettle 1 letter; 11 Jan. 1914 Henry J. King, bankers 3 letters; 1905 MS 13,073 /10 i Padraic Langan 1 letter; 3 Sep. 1915 Algernon Law 1 letter; 18 Dec. 1912 Hugh Law 3 letters; 1905, 1912 Water Legge 2 letters; 1912 [E. H. J.] Leslie (F.C.) 2 letters; 1911-1912 Lever Bros Ltd. 2 letters; 1911 Mary Logan 1 letter; undated London Female Guardian Society 1 letter; 3 Nov. 1904 MS 13,073 /10 ii P. Magill 1 letter; 28 April 1904 J. V. Mainnhan 1 letter; 24 March 1912 Manchester Guardian 1 letter; 17 Oct. 1912 F. B. Meyer 2 letters; 1912 6 Kuno Meyer 2 letters; 1915-1916 Marion F. Michell 2 letters; 1912 MS 13,073 /11 E. R. McClintock-Dix 3 letters; 1912-1913 Barbara McDonnell 1 letter; 1 Dec. 1904 [L] MacGiolla Bride 1 letter; 28 Aug. 1907 Helen MacNaghten 3 letters; 1913 [Eoin] MacNeill 1 telegram; 15 Jan. 1914 [Edward] Martyn 1 letter; 10 Dec. 1913 MS 13,073 /12 i National Literary Society 1 letter; 30 Sep. 1905 National Review 1 letter; 28 Aug. 1905 Nationalities and Subject Races Committee 1 letter; 6 Feb. 1914 John Nelson 3 letters; 1913 [Livia] Nelson 1 letter; 3 Nov. 1913 New Age 1 letter; 3 Oct. 1913 New York Ledger 1 letter; 26 June 1895 MS 13,073 /12 ii Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh 1 letter; 22 June 1911 Íde Ní Néill 5 letters; 1904 Nineteenth Century and After 2 letters; 1913 F. Nordenflycht 1 letter; 8 [ ] 1910 Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe 2 letters; 1912 Northern Banking Co. 1 letter; 27 Sep. 1905 MS 13,073 /13 i J. C. O’Boyce 1 letter; 28 April 1904 Hugh O’Duffy 1 letter; 9 June 1908 E – O hArgáin 1 letter; 20 Dec. 1913 T. O’Neill Lane 1 letter; 12 Nov. 1909 [O’Neily/O’Neill] 4 letters; 1905, 1911 MS 13,073 /13 ii O’Reilly 1 telegram; 21 Sep. 1911 Francis H. Orpen 2 letters; 1905, 1913 P. P. O’Sullivan 1 letter; 28 June 1913 Dr. O’Sullivan-Beare 1 letter; 14 Oct. 1907 MS 13,073 /13 iii Patriotic League for Britons Overseas 1 letter; 29 Oct. 1914 George Pauling 3 letters; 1912 Syney S. Pawling 7 letters; 1911-1912 P. H. Pearse 1 letter; 15 June 1911 Eustace Percy 1 letter; 22 Oct. 1912 Peruvian Amazon Co. Ltd. 3 letters; 1911 Sir Constantine Phipps 2 letters; 1903 [Geo. H. Picknell] 3 letters; [1908-1909] M. Pugh 1 letter; [1913] Fred Puleston 1 letter; 25 Sep. 1911 7 MS 13,073 /14 Louise C. Reid 1 letter; 30 March 1908 Review of Reviews/ W. T. Stead 1 letter; 30 Jan. 1905 C. B. Rhind 1 letter; 21 Feb. 1908 James Frederick Roberts 2 letters; 1904 Joseph Robinson 1 letter; 15 May 1911 Royal Commission on the Civil Service 1 letter; April 1914 E. P. S. Roupell 2 letters; 1907 I.