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9 Garville Rd. 20.11.'15 Dear Hanna, Here is another five
issue of the I.C. & I want 6 copies
to here — the 20th. That will make
1/- with the 6 you sent me (13th) —
I enclose it. Would enclosed lines be suitable, in
next week's? If they are printed I sd.
want 12 copies more — and sd be glad
to get them early, if possible on Thursday.
Wd. pay later. Also I wd. pay postage
for a proof copy. I wd. collect & return
promptly, But cd it be posted early? As I have to retire for the night about
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six. I hate to trouble you — you
have so much to think of. J. C. shall see late issues — & will
appreciate. She sends you warm
greeting. Of course I shall send Mr. Harlem
the bills in Mass on his birthday. Please don't print unless you
approve. The 6 copies of 20thquite at
courier — Luck a good little Mercury!
or per them. Yours as ever DW.
Letter from Deborah Webb, member of the IWFL and a nationalist, to Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
requesting six copies of the Irish Citizen.
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), 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.