Ireland – The Easter Rising 1916 group of approx eight letters written to Lady Denys-Burton giving contemporaneous accounts of the Easter Rising April and May 1916: ‘...there was this awful business in Dublin in Monday, the Sin Finers [sic] as they say entrenched in Stephens green – they have taken the PO in Dublin so no letters are allowed through and no trains...Coleman who went up in a motor – his motor seized by Sin Fien [sic] people to barricade a building...some say Sir Roger Casement was landed in Kerry by a German submarine & has been shot !! This I hope is true. I am told that 4000 national volunteers marched to Dublin from Maryborough yesterday and that all the national volunteers are to be ordered to join the Sin Fien lot or be shot...people say that 1000 have been killed in Dublin & that Grafton St is running with blood !! This is probably exaggerated but anyhow it is very serious & unless Redmond can do something & get the upper hand of national volunteers it will mean Civil War...’ (letter dated April 26th 1916) ‘...I am thankful to say that Sir R Casement is taken. Why is he not shot at once. All Ireland is under Marshall law...it is evidently a plot for Dublin to be taken by Sin Fieners & the Germans...the Sin Finers in P O in Dublin have been given till today to surrender or be all blown up...’ (letter dated April 27th 1916). ‘...today we hear on best authority – someone back from London – that Casement has been shot. I am thankful for this...Countess Markovitx is they say also shot. Dublin is being bombarded. You can hear the guns ...there are all sorts of stories of risings in the west but nothing authenticated...(letter dated April 29th 1916)