Letter from Edith Mary Sanderson to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 11 February 1916 Letters 1916-1923 Edith Mary Sanderson

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Letter from Edith Sanderson to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946). Sanderson writes to return tickets to an event on Sunday that she will not be able to attend. Sanderson discusses the sale of tickets in a committee she attended and writes that she misses the Citizen, a newspaper of the women's suffrage movement of which Skeffington was editor.Edith Sanderson was the secretary and treasurer of the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association, a non-militant, non-politically affiliated organization that focused on petitions and letters to the press. 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.

 National Library of Ireland Sheehy Skeffington Papers, Collection List No. 47, MS 33,604/16-2 https://letters1916.ie/item/977 English Edith Mary Sanderson 1916-02-11T00:00:00 7 Mount Temple Terrace, Dartry Road, Dublin, Ireland Hanna Sheehy Skeffington 11 Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland Female Country and City Life Politics Country and City Life

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 Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association. 11 Feb 1916 Dear Mrs. Skeffington, I fear you will be cross when I return your tickets. personally I should love to go but the day makes it an impossibility. its the only homeday we have. I make it a rule never to go any where on a Sunday. We had a Committee today but no one seemed inclined to buy tickets for anything! Crowds of people are buying tickets for all sorts of entertainments but I find it difficult to dispose of tickets annoyed our members! I miss the Citizen terribly. Thursday night is blank without it. & I seem to know nothing of what is going on. Most kindest regards Yours Sincerely, Edith Sanderson back of envelope Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington 11 Grosvenor Place Dublin Edith Mary Sanderson Letter from Edith Mary Sanderson to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 11 February 1916 11 Grosvenor Place, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Edith Mary Sanderson to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 11 February 1916Postcard from Percy J. Gillespie to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 5 February 1916Postcard from Gerard B. Crofts to Hannah Sheehy Skeffington, 15 February 1916Postcard from Charlotte Shaw to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 25 November 1915Letter to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 7 December 1915Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Rosamond Jacob, 10 January 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Margaret McCoubrey, 10 January 1916Postcard from Bulmer Hobson to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 9 February 1916.Postcard from Gerard B. Crofts to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 12 February 1916Postcard from Bulmer Hobson to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 15 February 1916Letter to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 31 March 1916Card to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 30 March 1916Letter from Séan P Campbell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 10 November 1915Letter from Máire Ní Catháin to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 13 November 1915Letter from Mary Hayden to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 16 November 1915Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Miss Lawless, 1 February 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Margaret McCoubrey, 14 January 1916Letter from F. Haughton to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington on 21 November 1915Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Laurence J. Ginnell, 27 February 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington, 1 February 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Earnest Aston, 1 February 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Lillian Metge, 1 February 1916Letter from Helen Morony to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington , 4 December 1915Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington, 14 January 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Mrs McGarry, 10 January 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Laurence Ginnell, 13 February 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Joseph Skeffington, 30 January 1916Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Joseph Skeffington, 27 February 1916 7 Mount Temple Terrace, Dartry Road, Dublin, Ireland Letter from Edith Mary Sanderson to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, 11 February 1916