Letter from from John Francis Byrne (1880–1960) to Carr Van Anda (1863-1945)regarding articles that Hanna's deceased husband, Francis, wrote for the New York Times. John writes to Carr to inform him that the New York Times committed an oversight when they failed to pay Francis for these articles despite Francis' claim for payment. John includes the response that Francis received from H.J. Bishop after he filed for payment, in which H.J. Bishop tells him he doesn't know how to help him. John closes his letter by providing more detail regarding the circumstances of payment. Carr Van Anda was the immensely successful managing editor of the New York Times in the early 20th century. John Francis Byrne was a journalist and university friend of James Joyce who wrote under the pen name J.F. Renby. Though Byrne emigrated to America in 1910, he spent most of 1916 in Ireland observing and reporting on the political climate. 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.