This letter was sent by Patrick Henry (1879-1916), a writer and school headmaster at St Enda's College. In this letter Pearse iencloses a receipt for £25, adding that Desmond and Fintan are both getting on very well at the College. A key member of the military council of the IRB who planned the Easter Rising, Pearse was one of the signatories of the proclamation of the Irish republic (largely his own writing), which he read outside the GPO after the outbreak of the Rising. As president of the provisional government Pearse called for the surrender and was executed on 3 May 1916. Pearse's mother, Margaret Pearse (1857-1932) kept St Enda's, open after his death and was later elected a TD.