Edwards Pierrepont to The Right Honorable the Earl of Derby, June 18, 1877

Mr. Pierrepont to Lord Derby.

My Lord: Referring to my note of the 23d of August last, and to your lordship’s reply of the 14th of September last, I have the honor to say that I have lately received dispatch from Mr. Seward, Assistant Secretary of State, by which I am instructed to invite the attention of Her Majesty’s Government again to the case of Edward O’M. Condon, a convict now under Sentence of imprisonment for life for participation in certain Fenian disturbances. This dispatch covers the copy of a letter from the brother of Condon to the President of the United States, in which it is intimated that the prisoner is in failing health, and that his mother is in great distress and anxiety on his account. I beg to recall to your lordship’s attention the grounds upon which, in a former communication, I asked for a remission of the punishment in this case, and also to state that the Government of the United States, in view of another year of his imprisonment having elapsed, and of the fact that no new disturbances have occurred, hopes that it may be deemed proper by Her Majesty’s Government to extend the clemency which is desired, and allow the prisoner to be released.

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