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Letter from the Irish writer George Russell (known by the pseudonym Æ) to Jane Coffey (1857-?). In the letter, dated only 'Sunday', Russell apologises for missing a meeting of the Junior Irish Literary Theatre. He was in the West lecturing and had only recently returned to Dublin. Coffey was born Jane L’Estrange. She married Hugh Diarmid James (Diarmid) Coffey, and their home at number 5 Harcourt Street became a meeting place for Dublin society, including the forerunners of the Celtic Revival movement. Neighbours included Thomas W. Lyster of the National Library of Ireland and Sarah Purser. Most of Jane Coffey’s relations refused to speak to her because she had married a Catholic.
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