Copy letters of Fr. E.F. Murnane re Roger Casement

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are doing . rthanks for sending them to me to read . I guessed that Fr. Gorman had the expression of a wish that they should go back to you . beset me so vigorously as they do . I am not on a rock-but on a bed Tomorrow I go to the Appeal Court to hear my Council against 18. July 1918 . n prohibited from again visiting me at the "over at the time . I was a I'me is short . It must be no'deliberate act , unwarvering re actuates me . It is very hard to be sure of one's convictions - to be I got your letter of 6th . July : It came to me just after to " that Leviathan of the Haw" ( Lord Coke ! ) or the " judiciary " V av" His declaration of Irish Rights . July. 1788 particularly in rega ve and in the increase of life and happiness around them to replace would come if he could-and when he did not come next day I knew quit My Dear father Hurnane too . I fear some of the books he so . kindly sent me to Brixton have be ensure it for I can ensure nothing , and possess nothing-and the morning . If I had Solon for an advocate the result I fancy you our prayers for me . I havent been so happy of late in my mind or in my 'd then I don't want to jump .or rush or do anything hastily just because et Solons state what they please . Please read Grattan's indictment of Crit , as I was " doubts and perplexities' as nail he and leave we trouble eturn you the Father Provincial's letter and that of Father Gormaneval arguments for and against and coming back to the place I started from here . The Franciscans were loved in Peru from of old and it is a good statement and I shall return here . That is the only thing I am sure of his country " I anticipate no other interest than that of listening to the fruit of their privations and of their selfsacrifice - in the lives ost there , one I know has . Your three books - Aubrey de Vere and St August ear PI can only accept in my soul from love-never from fear-and part we here with me . I hope they may be returned to you later on . I cannot o bitter trial trial and disappointment - but it is not so - and they will " to thank you'd indeed for your affection and thought of me " and for our visit . For both I thank you warmly - the visit and the letter - I know Ideals , and yet my full intellect . For if it were thus the doubts would However interesting from the point of view of the " History of trees I grieved at it and thought . I was sending or asking them to be sent a the same for we know that " the law is an ass " and 10 always true sure-and questions come to me from myself that I find no answer to . men I feel my doubts are settled and then they revive , and I cannot say trouble is an I convinced ? or do I only think I am ?An I moved by and it is not reading I want , but companionship - I am sure you understa think of them there now in that dreamy region and I am glad for the the indictment and I shall return here . That is the only t yself and my own imperfect understanding . There are ti ell why . I am glad indeed to hear the…