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               <p>Letter from Helen Sophia Chenevix (b. 1886) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946). Chenevix apologises to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington for a book of Skeffington's that had ended up lost in Chenevix's library. She also apologises for not being able to sell tickets to an event that occurred the Sunday previous and writes that she hopes it went well.Chenevix was a suffragist, trade unionist, and social campaigner. In 1911, she co-founded the Irishwomen's Suffragist Federation, a non-militant, secular, and politically independent organization that attempted to coordinate suffrage efforts. She also helped to form the Dublin's Irish Women's Reform League and the Belfast's Women's Suffrage Society and campaigned for women's suffrage to be included in the 1912 Home Rule Bill. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, suffragette, nationalist, language teacher, was the widow of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (who was summarily executed on 26 April 1916). She was active during the Rising, bringing food to the Volunteers in the G.P.O. and the College of Surgeons. Four days passed before she found out what had happened to her husband, Francis (1878-1916), and it wasn't until almost two weeks later that the full details of his execution emerged.</p>
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              IRISHWOMEN'S REFORM LEAGUE <lb/>AFFILIATED TO <lb/>IRISHWOMEN'S SUFFRAGE FEDERATION   Office â 29 SOUTH ANNE STREET.  DUBLIN    22<hi rend="superscript">nd</hi><hi rend="underline">Feb.</hi> 1916.   Dear Mrs Skeffington,   I have found this book, which evidently belongs to you, <lb/>in my Library. I don't know how it got there, but I am <lb/>afraid we must have had it a long time. I hope you <lb/>were not looking for it.  I am sorry to say we did not succeed in selling <lb/>any tickets for the entertainment last Sunday, though I <lb/>believe some of our people went to it. I hope it went <lb/>off well. <seg type="closer"> Yrs. sincerely  H.S. Chevenix </seg> 
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