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7, LOWER ORMOND QUAY,
Dublin. 3rd Feb. '16 Dear Mrs Skeffington, Thanks for copies of play
I have given one each to Mr Shields
and Ms Downes. I am sorry
we will be unable to attend rehearsal
during this or next week as we are on at the Abbey but perhaps
you will be having a Sunday rehearsal.
Any how we will rehearse our parts
between ourselves so that will be
all right. Yrs sincly F. Harford
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Letter from Fred Harford to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946). Harford writes to
inform Skeffington about how ticket selling is going, and to let her know that he
will not be able to make the upcoming rehearsals as he is performing at the Abbey
Theatre that week.
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.