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A letter from Joe McGrath, Cabinteely House, County Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. suggesting that Robert Monteith and his wife might be better off if their meagre income was supplemented rather than incurring the extra expense of purchasing them a house.

A letter from JC. Landy, managing director, managing director, Clover Meats, Waterford, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., enclosing a cheque for £2 2s for the Monteith fund.

A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. forwarding another subscription to the Monteith fund.

A letter from John Codd to Margaret Mary Pearse. Codd outlines his struggles to find work and refers to his impoverishment since his return to Ireland having spent the war years in Germany. Codd had enlisted in the British Army prior to the war. He saw action in the Battle of France (1940) during which he was wounded and was captured by the Germans. As a prisoner-of-war, he was recruited by the Abwher (the German Military Intelligence Service) and later worked for the Sicherheitsdienst, the foreign intelligence arm of the SS.

In his letter, Codd draws a parallel between his involvement with the German military’s attempt to establish a force of Irish volunteers during the Second World War with Roger Casement’s attempt to raise an Irish Brigade during the Great War. Codd’s letter also mentions the fate of James Brady, another Irish-born former British Army soldier who was captured by the Germans and later recruited into the Waffen-SS. Codd notes that Brady was detained by the Allies following the cessation of hostilities and was subsequently court-martialled for aiding the enemy. He was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. Codd laments the fact that ‘nobody from here has made any effort to secure his release or to help him in any way’.

A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing £5 for the Monteith fund from a supporter of Clann na Poblachta. MacBride also refers to Roger Casement describing him as ‘such a great man, he took care of the men he enlisted in his Brigade. They were kept in a separate camp … and he [Casement] stipulated they were not to be used for anything but work to free their own country’. She also refers to her hopes that Casement’s body will be repatriated to Ireland for burial. She writes ‘Ireland who wanted the body of Yeats to be buried, as he wished on the slopes of Ben Bulben, will someday perhaps think Casement’s wish should have been respected’.

A letter from Robert Monteith to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his hope that Fr. Senan will be present at the event in which the keys to the house in Sutton, County Dublin, will be formally handed over to him and his wife.

A letter from Madge Daly to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a cheque for £5 for the Monteith fund from her sister Kathleen Clarke.

A letter from Agnes O’Farrelly (Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh) to Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. enclosing £5 for the Monteith fund in recognition of his association with her ‘old friend Roger Casement’.

A card from Justice Michael J. Lennon accepting an invitation to attend the Captain Robert Monteith presentation in Father Mathew Hall in Dublin on 17 March 1949. The image side of the card has a photographic print of Gallarus Castle on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. The postcard caption provides an incorrect spelling, the title should read Gallarus Castle.

A photograph of Robert Monteith delivering his lecture in Father Mathew Hall in Dublin. Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. is seated at the table on the left.