Sir, - In connection with the imminent forensic testing of the "Black Diaries" associated with Roger Casement, I am anxious to contact the kinsfolk of two women who were in communication with him in 1915, or otherwise learn more of their earlier connections with him.
Mrs Nannie Florence Dryhurst was born in Dublin (nΘe Robinson) and lived with her husband in Hampstead until she died in the 1930s. Miss Editha Phelps had an address at a library in Chicago in 1915.
I would also be grateful for information about pictures of Roger Casement - photographs, sketches, formal portraits or whatever - which the owners may believe to be little known to the public. - Yours, etc.,
Prof Bill McCormack, Department of English, Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London.