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9 Garville Rd . 6.11.15 Dear Hanna, Cuttings
returned with thanks.
It is disappointing
about the cause in
the eastern states -
But we are used to
disappointments - & are
bound to win bye & bye.
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Here enter Owen! Thanks for more
documents & for
book. It was for
Mrs. Oldham. I am so glad
you inserted those
extracts in the
I.C. It is a
capital issue. But what about my
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40 copies? I shall be glad
to get them at
earliest convenience. Perhaps a man
passing your door
tomorrow about
12 may call for
some. I shall
send Cleopatra
then. Must not
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overburden the
boy. Yours as ever. DW.
Letter from Deborah Webb to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) to talk about a recent
disappointment.
Deborah Webb was a member of the Irish Women's Franchise League and a nationalist.
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.