In this letter Brigid Flood writes to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877 - 1946) in order to secure a copy of "The Great Scourge and How to End It" by Christable Pankhurst for a friend. Flood also requests a list of books in the League's library as it is difficult to keep up to date with suffrage activities down in Longford. In this case the League refers to the Irish Women's Franchise League founded in 1908 to express a public manifestation of women’s discontent and radical feminism in Ireland under the leadership of Hanna and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Margaret Cousins. The book which Flood has requested was written by Pankhurst (1880 - 1958) and outlined how, in a male-dominated society, where women were kept in a state of subservience and economic dependence, the social evil of prostitution was the fruit of women's slavery. 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.