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Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I have written a letter to the “Agnostic Journal” upon [the] same subject (agnosticism and atheism) principally because my name was mentioned therein’.

Letter to James Pearse from George St. Clair, 127 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, expressing his thanks for sending the ‘small volume by “Humanitas”’.

Letters to James Pearse from W.J. Ramsey, Manager, the Progressive Publishing Company, 28 Stonecutter Street, London. The letter of 25 November 1884 encloses a clipping of an advertisement for ‘Socialism a curse / a reply to a Lecture delivered by Edward B. Aveling’ and ‘Is God the First Cause?’ (1883) by ‘Humanitas’ (James Pearse).

Photographic prints annotated on the reverse: ‘J. Pearse / Queen’s Robing Room / House of Lords’. The images appear to show some of the statues of the twenty-six princesses extant in the Queen’s robing room in the House of Lords, London. Pearse made carvings of princesses and robes and crowns for the ‘throne room’ (or the ‘Queen’s robing room’) in the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster.

Copy photographic prints of Roger Casement, with William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne, and Alice Stopford Green. The photograph was possibly taken at Ardglass in County Down in c.1913.

Two copies of the ‘Speech of Roger Casement from the dock / Executed in Pentonville Prison, August 3rd, 1916.’ (Dublin: published by Fergus O’Connor, 1916).

Copy letter from Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to Fr. E.F. Murnane dated 16 July 1916. With a copy extract from a letter from Fr. Murnane, Presbytery, Dockhead, [Bermondsey, London, S.E.], to George Gavan Duffy (Aug. 1917). The extract reads ‘He [Casement] faced death like a gallant Irish gentleman with the added courage and confidence of a good catholic. He talked freely of his death and was looking forward to his confession …’. The copy file concludes with a copy extract from a letter from Fr. James Carey, prison chaplain, giving a brief account of Casement’s piety before his execution.

A typescript copy letter from Daniel Crowley, Royal Irish Constabulary, Ballyheihue (Ballyheigue), Tralee, County Kerry to the editor of the ‘Constabulary Gazette’ re his recollections of the Casement landing and the ‘Aud incident’. The letter is dated 21 April 1917. The letter reads ‘On Thursday the 20th April 1916 I was on patrol duty (five miles away) and noticed at about 2 pm a vessel far out to sea, a steamer, I watched her for some time, became suspicious, and on my return to Barracks I sent a constable to Kerry Head to watch her and report her to the Coast-Guard here if she was suspicious. He did so’.

A flier titled 'Why Casement went to Germany'. Reprint of an article "From the "Evening Mail" (New York), August 10th, 1916" - "An article written by the Irish patriot [Roger Casement] just before he left Germany on his ill-fated trip to England". Printed at bottom of sheet 'Profits on Sale of this leaflet go to the National Funds'.

A clipping of an article titled ‘Memories of Roger Casement’ by Bulmer Hobson (‘Sunday Press’, 22 Apr. 1956).