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26 Crescent Villas Glasnevin Febry 23 '16 Dear Mrs Skeffington, I enclose tickets
sent me last week, none of
which I have been able to
sell: but I have much
pleasure in sending you
P.O. for 2/6 to help I.C.
Fund. I had intended
sending you this before I shall
alos also do my best to get something
for your St. Patrick''s Day
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Coupon, though I cannot
guarantee that I shall be
successful. — there is not
as much 'Suffrage' enthusiasm
as one would like to see
in this part of the city! Yours sincerely, L.O. Kingston 1 Encl.
Letter from L.O. Kingston to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) enclosing tickets
to an event that they were not able to sell. However, they do offer payment to help
the I.C. ('Irish Citizen') fund and close by expressing that there is not as much
enthusiasm about suffrage in their part of Dublin as they would like there to be.Hanna
Sheehy Skeffington (1877 - 1946), 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.