Typescript cover letter from Basil Blackwood, Vice Regal Lodge to Maxwell enclosing a letter from Sir Henry Blake offering his service [not enclosed].

From Henry A[rthur] Blake, Myrtle Grove, Youghal, to the Lord Lieutenant [Lord Wimborne]. Offers his services to Wimborne: 'I beg to place myself unreservedly at the disposal of our Excellency should you consider that my services can be of any use in this crisis'.

A collection of British documents and letters relating to 1916 which form a file within the Papers of Éamon de Valera. The documents include intelligence reports, despatches, and correspondence between Irish Command, Home Forces, the War Office, M.I.5.G., and the Royal Irish Constabulary. The documents cover the immediate aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the executions of the leaders, and the general political situation in Ireland at the time.