Letter from Elizabeth McCracken (1876-1944) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), thanking Hanna for her previous letter and her interest. Elizabeth writes that she hopes that Hanna will be able to influence Birrell, the chief secretary for Ireland. She goes on to write about a variety of current events and closes by wishing Hanna good health. Elizabeth A.M. McCracken was an Ulster suffragist and member of the Women’s Suffrage Society and the Women’s Social and Political Union. She is the author of The Feminine in Fiction and wrote under the pen name L.A.M. Priestly McCracken. 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.