CASEMENT PETITION PAPERS: correspondence and papers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Clement K. Shorter, editor of The Sphere, concerning their petition to the government to reprieve Roger Casement, sentenced to death for high treason, 29 June 1916; 1916. Partly printed. Purchased from David J. Holmes Autographs, Philadelphia, Cat. II, lot 62, 7 Aug. 1985. Paper; ff. 176. Individual items mounted and bound in dark green morocco with gilt tooling, including Irish emblems, by Rivière, in a clot...
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Clement King Shorter, journalist and author: Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. Conan Doyle and Clement King Shorter rel. to petition on behalf of Roger Casement: 1915, 1916: Partly printed.