File 6 - Copy Letter Book

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / Private / 3 February 1953’. Contains copies of Fr. Senan’s personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. A partial alphabetical index of correspondents is included in the opening pages of the volume. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Johanna Coakley, Fr. Terence J. Connolly SJ, Alan Downey (‘Waterford News’), Patrick Fanning (‘Offaly Independent’), Joan Hammond, John English & Co. (printers), Doran Hurley, Monsignor Richard J. Glennon, Fr. Gilbert Bermingham OFM Cap. Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., Richard King, Robert Monteith, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., T.J. Molloy (‘Independent’ Newspapers), Henry F. Meagher (Knockmore, Killamallock, County Wicklow), Thomas MacGreevy, Fr. Patrick McDaid, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Sister Mary de Pazzi, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist), Tomás Ó Ríain, Terence O’Hanlon, Séamus Ó Cearbhaill, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Ellen Murnane (41 East Main Street, Portland, Connecticut), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Sister Josephine (Convent of Mercy, Cork), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Victor Waddington, Fr. Basil Wrighton, and Jack B. Yeats. A lengthy copy letter from Fr. Senan to Richard King refers to ongoing financial difficulties in the Capuchin Publications Office and to a dispute with the artist (13 Jan. 1954), pp 188-202.