{"id":1240,"date":"2013-11-13T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T11:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xl1916apps.mucampus.ie\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2018-04-10T14:56:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:56:01","slug":"casements-letter-from-17-may-1916-is-to-be-auctioned-at-sothebys-in-london-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/casements-letter-from-17-may-1916-is-to-be-auctioned-at-sothebys-in-london-next-month","title":{"rendered":"Casement’s letter from 17 May 1916 is to be auctioned at Sotheby\u2019s in London next month."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roger Casement’s letter is to be auctioned at\u00a0Sotheby’s<\/a>\u00a0in London next month.<\/p>\n

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“A letter by Roger Casement to the police inspector responsible for his custody, written just three months before his execution and detailing his attitude towards England and the English, is to be auctioned at Sotheby\u2019s in London next month.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image from The Irish Times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Casement wrote the letter \u2013 dated May 17th, 1916 \u2013 to Joseph Sandercock, an inspector in the London Metropolitan Police with responsibility for counterespionage, days after being committed to stand trial for treason.”<\/p>\n

Read more in the\u00a0article<\/a> by Eoin Burke-Kennedy in\u00a0The Irish Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Casement’s letter is to be auctioned at\u00a0Sotheby’s\u00a0in London next month. “A letter by Roger Casement to the police inspector responsible for his custody, written just three months before his execution and detailing his attitude towards England and the English, Continue reading Casement’s letter from 17 May 1916 is to be auctioned at Sotheby\u2019s in London next month.<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6987,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/6987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letters1916.ie\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}