Letter from Francis Sheehy Skeffington to Earnest Aston regarding a surviving debt of the Civic League. Skeffington states that he will not be paying the debt and suggesting meeting up with Aston soon on another matter. Francis Sheehy Skeffington (1878-1916), journalist, was a prominent feminist, activist and co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise league in 1908. In 1912, he and his wife, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946), founded the suffragist newspaper The Irish Citizen. A staunch pacifist and nationalist, Sheehy Skeffington opposed Irish involvement in the Great War. During the Easter Rising, he attempted to organise a civilian defence force to prevent looting and saved the life of a British officer under fire. Arrested on the evening of Tuesday 25 April 1916, Sheehy Skeffington and two other civilians were shot by firing squad on the morning of Wednesday 26 April. Ernest Albert Aston (1873–1949) was a journalist and urban planner. Aston was a supporter of Home Rule and was co-founder of the Dublin Liberal Association in 1910. His acquaintance with many of the political leaders of 1908–20, including Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, and Eoin MacNeill meant that he was suspected of providing political intelligence to the British authorities.