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Letter from Roger Casement (Hammam Hotel, O'Connell Street) to [Robert] Donovan, inviting him to the Irish plays in the Oireachtas and informing him that Mrs. [Alice Stopford] Green and E. A. Stopford will be there. etc. ✔
{written on opposing sides of a single folded leaf; in the left panel formed by the fold:}
Hammam Hotel O'Connell Street. {printed: Marine Station Hotel. Bray Saturday 12th Augt {printed: 190}5
Dear Mr Donovan,
I am going to the OREACTAS on Monday night to the plays in Irish. Will you not come and join us at dinner here at 6.30. then to them -- and we could kill two birds with one stone -- perhaps several.
M"rs Green, and her brother E.A. Stopford and, I hope,
{in the right panel:}
The French Consul will be at the little dinner and the plays afterward.
I shall hope to see you then.
Thanks for your efforts with the "Irish Times": I have not much hope of it!
It is part? praying for an Irish times.
Yours sincerely
Fragment of a letter from Roger Casement to [Robert Donovan ?], discussing the Liberals; Home Rule; Balfour's proposals; and redistribution. ✔
proposals against Ireland and will be delighted to see them carried.
It will lessen the weight of one embarrassment which pressed on the Liberal party - viz - the Home Rule incubus.
They have no intention of giving Home Rule -
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not even of "wanting one Session in discussing it, as one of their learned men told me a short time ago.
Campbell Bennerman will {struck-through: "probably"} not approve of Balfour's scheme and I daresay will or what he can to help Redmond, but a lot of the so called "Liberals" are about as Liberal as the "Irish Times" and when Ireland is the issue, will find many "fly-blown phylacteries" in which to wrap their foreheads.