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Casement, Roger. A COLLECTION RELATING TO HIS DIPLOMATIC CAREER AND POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION, COMPRISING: i) Foreign Office correspondence: two typed letters signed by Henry Hamilton Johnston, together with a duplicate of one letter with some manuscript corrections, two autograph letters signed by Lord Beauchamp, and one autograph letter signed by Charles Dilke, all to Casement, on misgovernment in the Belgian Congo and a condemnatory resolution drafted by Dilke ("...this meeting condemns the present system of personal rule established by the Sovereign of the Congo Independent State..."), May to July 1905; two typed letters signed by Arthur Rowley on conditions and life in Haiti, docketed by Casement, 19 August to 22 October 1907, and three other items; five typed letters signed by Lord Dufferin and Ava concerning Casement's next diplomatic posting, each docketed by Casement and two with lengthy subscriptions ("...they will send me back to Sao Paulo ... & in a year 'about' offer me Rio. But I hate & loathe Sao Paulo as much as Santos - & Rio is a hideous hole ... altogether the F.O. are the most unsatisfactory people in the world!..."), together with two autograph draft letters by Casement to Dufferin reluctantly accepting a posting to Para and complaining about tardy communications from the Foreign Office, 15 November to 31 December 1907; two autograph draft letters by Casement to the Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey on his appointment at Consul General at Rio de Janeiro ("...I would desire that my most dutiful acknowledgments of His Majesty's gracious choice of me for this post might be expressed on my behalf...") and presenting travelling expenses, Dublin and London, 30 January to 6 February 1909; letter of appointment as Consul General at Rio de Janeiro, docketed by Casement, 1 December 1908; 14 letters, chiefly from civil servants in the Foreign Office, relating to Casement's posting to Rio, including his investigation into abuses of indigenous people by the Peruvian Amazon Rubber Company in the Putumayo Basin ("...regarding the publication of your report ... the Dept. is unwilling as yet to give up entirely the hope that Peru may take effective measures that will shield her from the results of publicity...") and congratulations on his knighthood, docketed by Casement, 21 January 1911 to 18 December 1912; a letter by J. H. Morgan (later Casement's defence counsel at his trial) advising him to write to Lord Grey asking for a Colonial Governorship ("...allow me as a friend – and, I hope, an intimate one – to say it, don't be too proud to do this..."), 11 September 1913; altogether 75 pages, various sizes, 1905-1913 ii) Correspondence about Roger Casement and his posthumous reputation, chiefly to his favourite cousin and confidante gertrude parry (née bannister): five letters relating to the proposed reinterment of casement's body including a typed letter signed by ramsay macdonald as Prime Minister, refusing this request and also refusing to produce Casement's diaries (25 March 1924), copies of letters by Jan Smuts, and notes on legal precedents for the reinterment; 36 letters on the threatened publication of casement's 'black' diaries by peter singleton-gates in 1925 including letters by randall davidson, archbishop of canterbury ("...experience warns me that there is no more perilous thing than to try to prevent the publication of a book which the author is determined to publish..."), george gavan duffy (2) warning that an injunction to prevent publication "may be used by Roger's enemies as evidence that there is something to hide & a pirated edition might be issued (really by Whitehall), which would sell all the better", eva gore-booth (2) deploring the threatened publication, Casement's brother Tom on his relationship with Roger, his lobbying activities in Dublin, and the history of the diaries, letters and telegrams by Gertrude's husband Sidney Parry from London on his enquiries with the media and lobbying of the Bri