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9 Garville Rd. 26.11.'15 Dear Hanna. Thanks for
papers wh. I return. Enclosed please
find 1/6 for I.C's - 6 that you
sent me & 12 wh. please give
. It seems clever to have
the payment of the bill to you, as I sent
you the 1/10 1/2. I am so sorry to
give you the trouble. Just when you
are at the office please. And I
won't do it again. Yours always D.Webb.
Deborah Webb (b. 1838) writes to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) to thank her
for sending along some important papers.
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.