P.H. Pearse as Manager & Headmaster Pearse (P.H.) A good autograph signed letter, in English on St. Enda's headed notepaper, 2pp. (single folded sheet), dated 19th Sept 1912, to ' My dear Mr....

P.H. Pearse as Manager & Headmaster Pearse (P.H.) A good autograph signed letter, in English on St. Enda's headed notepaper, 2pp. (single folded sheet), dated 19th Sept 1912, to ' My dear Mr. Reddin, ' thanking him for a donation towards the St. Enda's fund ' Please accept my most grateful thanks. We have pulled through all right, and though. I realise that there is still an uphill fight before us I am fairly confident as to the future.' He also mentions ' the boys' and says he is answering some queries of Kenneth's (separately). ' It is not easy to give general directions as to Irish composition in the way he asks. The Irish paper (in the Metric examination) is, however, fairly sure to be easy. The two boys ought to pass, but one can never tell.' with a good signature ('P.H. Pearse'). One of the two boys mentioned, Kenneth Reddin, became a District Court Justice and a playwright. A poem of his was published in the St. Enda's school magazine, ' An Macaomh' in May 1913. His memories of Pearse appear in 'Studies,' in 1945. * Good letters from Pearse are increasingly scarce. The financial crisis of 1912 was of course only one in a long series, and St. Enda's was never able to clear its debts. (1)

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