This letter was written by Lady Constance Emmott to Casement's chaplain Father James McCarroll as he awaited execution in Pentonville Prison.

By this time, the British secret service had privately circulated Casement’s diaries, hoping to discredit him by revealing his homosexuality. It is not clear from this letter whether Constance was aware of the revelations.

Lady Constance asks that Father McCarroll convey her best wishes to Casement, but is at pains to establish her ‘deepest regret & horror that he should have acted as he did’ by importing arms for the rebels.

Citation:
Letter from Lady Constance Emmott,
Marsh's Library Exhibits: ‘Changed Utterly?’ curated by Elaine Doyle and Jason McElligott,
accessed September 26, 2023,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/exhibits/show/irishrevolution/item/622