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6 WESTLAND ROW,
DUBLIN. Nov. 1st, 1915, Mrs. H. Sheehy Skeffington,
The Irish Citizen,
12, D'Olier Street,
Dublin, Dear Madam, Enclosed please find cheque £1-9-6, being amount of com-
mission due to you on our sales of Franchise Tea up to and
including Oct. 2nd, 1915. As we explained to Mrs. Hoskins when she called on us,
we have been, so far, at a considerable loss from this
Franchise Tea venture and we do not see any prospect of
recouping ourselves if the sales do not increase at least
ten fold. Both for your own sake and for ours we hope you
will be able to ush them more energetically than has been
done in the past. Yours faithfully
per pre ANNE LYNCH & Co. A W Waring
In this letter from A. W. Waring to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), A.W. writes
enclosing the percentage of tea sales that Hanna is due. A.W. explains that the company
is operating at a loss and that unless sales very sharply increase they will not be
able to recover.
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, suffragette, nationalist, language teacher, was the founder
of the Irish Women’s Franchise League and a founding member of the Irish Women Workers’
Union. She 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.