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13th Feb. 1916 36 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. Dear Mrs Skeffington I am really sorry not to be able
to help by taking tickets, but it is out of my
power. I have heavy (for me) responsibilities &
no professional work. I hope you are getting
a good response to your efforts, but it is a difficult
time for many people. Yours sincerely S. C. Harrison
In this letter Harrison apologises that he is unable to purchase tickets for a fundraising
concert to be held on 20 February 1916. Harrison writes that he has heavy responsibilities
and no professional work but hopes that Skeffington is getting a good response for
her efforts. 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.