Letter from Mary Hayden (1862-1942) to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) regarding her subscription to the Irish Citizen, asking if she could stop receiving it until after Christmas because she is moving house and will be very busy. Mary Hayden was a suffragette and historian. As one of the earliest women graduates of the Royal University of Ireland she became the professor of modern Irish history at University College Dublin in 1911. Although opposing militant protests as counterproductive, she sought justice in the treatment of protesters. Involved in various suffrage groups, in 1915 she and Mary Gwynn established another, the Irish Catholic Women’s Suffrage Association, to attract more Catholic women to the movement. Throughout her life she publicly advocated women’s rights, including demands for full citizenship in both the 1922 and 1937 constitutions. 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.