Dossier 7 - Copy Letter Book

146 pp; 23.5 cm x 18 cm; Bound volume, manuscript

A volume containing copy correspondence of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. A manuscript annotation on the first page reads ‘Father Senan OFM Cap. / 27 July 1951’. However, the copy correspondence covers dates from 1953 to 1954. The file contains copies of his personal letters, correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office with references to acute financial difficulties in the office, and Fr. Senan’s prolonged ill-health. Includes Fr. Senan’s copy letters to James Comyn (Fountain Court, Temple, London), James A. Glennon (116 East 92nd Street, New York), Albert Dryer, Sister Imelda Cassidy (Loreto College, 43 North Great George’s Street, Dublin), Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap., Richard King, Máirín Cregan (Kindlestown House, Delgany, County Wicklow), Sister M. Joseph (Presentation Convent, Clondalkin, County Dublin), Fr. John Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Archbishop Gerald O’Hara (Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland), Leonard J. Schweitzer, Joan Hammond, Frieda Le Pla, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Canon J. Lane (Presbytery, Cahersiveen, County Kerry), Eddie Doherty (Madonna House, Combermere, Ontario, Canada), James D.B. O’Toole, Archbishop John D’Alton, Doran Hurley, Daphne Pochin Mould, Fr. Louis O’Meara OFM Cap. (Wilmington, Delaware), Sister M. Gertrude (Missionary Sisters of St. Columban, Cahiracon, Ennis, County Clare), Br. Laserian O’Connor OFM Cap. (Capuchin College, Rochestown, County Cork), Fr. Vianney Cashell OFM Cap., Kathleen O’Connell (Government Buildings, Dublin), Josephine Moynihan (Dominican College, Eccles Street, Dublin), Edward A. Beatty (114 Rathgar Road, Dublin), and Fr. Daniel R. Conway OFM Cap. (Saint Fidelis College, Herman, Pennsylvania). A copy letter from Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (but in the hand of Fr. Senan) to J.J. O’Conor, Manager, National Bank, Smithfield, Arran Quay, Dublin, refers to the ‘terrifying dimensions’ of the Capuchin Publication Office’s debt (18 Jan. 1954), pp 41-3; A copy letter from Fr. Senan of Joseph O’Connor reads ‘I have been here for twenty-six years now and my dearest wish for many months is to get out of the place! Some of the staff naturally enough of course are taking it rather badly – Mollie Baxter, for instance, who has been secretary to the office for twenty-five years; Jo Crean who has been a most devoted and efficient member for many years …’. (7 May 1954), pp 141-3.

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Biographical Entries and Notes for Correspondents

James Comyn: https://www.dib.ie/biography/comyn-sir-james-peter-a1906
Albert Dryer: https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/irish_national_association
Joseph O'Connor: https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=188
Richard King: https://www.dib.ie/biography/king-richard-a4567
Máirín Cregan: https://www.dib.ie/biography/cregan-mairin-a9572
Joan Hammond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Hammond
Frieda Le Pla: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2017/05/05/i-took-to-going-off-for-long-tramps-by-myself-over-the-fields-and-the-beech-clad-hills-frieda-le-pla-deaf-blind-author/
Eddie Doherty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Doherty
Archbishop John D’Alton: https://www.dib.ie/biography/dalton-john-francis-a2358
Doran Hurley: https://bethlehembooks.com/person/doran-hurley/
Daphne Pochin Mould: https://www.dib.ie/biography/mould-daphne-desiree-charlotte-pochin-a10175
Kathleen O'Connell: https://www.dib.ie/biography/oconnell-kathleen-a6565