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BEAUPARC,
MONKSTOWN,
CO.DUBLIN. September 12, 1915 Dear Mrs. Sheffington I will close you a scribble
about my "at Home". It was
a freak success I think & we got
10 new members who seemed
most entusiastic. I do not
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know if the account will be of
any use to you. I hadn't time
to write it properly. Imagine I have
2 servants in Baggot St. Hos. One
with apprendicities - to-day &: one this
5 weeks with a shoulder ill. I am
depending on nurse & ourselves so we are
upside down. Yrs sincerely Kathleen Cantwell
Card from Kathleen Cantwell to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) enclosing an account
of a meeting at which they got ten new members. Cantwell apologises if the account
is not very good. She writes that both her servants have been ill and it is difficult
to manage themselves.
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), suffragette, nationalist, language teacher,
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.