File 13 - Copy Letter Book

40 pp; 20.5 cm x 15.5 cm; Bound volume; manuscript

A copybook containing copy and draft correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The file contains copies of his personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Some of the letters refers to the pilgrimage to Rome organised by Fr. Senan and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. which included Senator Margaret Pearse, Cormac Breathnach, and Thomas MacGreevy. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. Gerard Fassler OFM Cap. (Mahenge Mission, Tanzania), Fr. Frederick Lynk SVD (editor, ‘The Christian Family’, Evanston, Illinois), Adolf Morath (photographer), William Monk Gibbon, Cormac Breathnach (Lord Mayor of Dublin), Cadogan Travel Bureau (Sloane Street, London), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Jarlath A. O’Connell, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Sister Eveleen Coyle RSCJ (Convent of the Sacred Heart, Armagh), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Archbishop John Charles McQuaid (refers to admissions to Trinity College Dublin), and Bernard Halliday (bookseller, Leicester, refers to the letters of ‘William Gladstone and Sherlock’ which Fr. Senan has purchased as a ‘collector of autographs of Irish interest’, 13 June 1950).

Some of the pages are detached from the spiral-bound copybook.

Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents

William Monk Gibbon: https://www.dib.ie/biography/gibbon-william-monk-a3451
Cormac Breathnach: https://www.dib.ie/biography/breathnach-cormac-charlie-walsh-a0911
Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid: https://www.dib.ie/biography/mcquaid-john-charles-a5755