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

Typescript cover letter from Basil Blackwood, Vice Regal Lodge to Maxwell enclosing a typescript copy of a telegram from the Stephen Quinn, Mayor of Limerick to [Wimborne] with a copy of Wimborne's reply. The mayor requests that following the successful surrender in Limerick, arrests be deferred 'owing to the peaceful state of the City'. Wimborne responds that 'as the country is under Martial Law, His Excellency regrets that he has no powers in the matter referred to'.