A manuscript letter and report titled ‘Lectures on Consumption and Fevers in South Connemara’. (c.1908). Reference is made in the letter to ‘Mr [Patrick] Pearse, editor of An Claidheamh Soluis’, and to various public lectures on health-related matters in the Connemara district. The item appears to be incomplete, and the author of the report is not given.
A letter to Margaret Mary Pearse from Delia Larkin forwarding a payment for tuition fees to St. Enda’s School. The tuition fees are seemingly for her nephew Jim Larkin Jnr (or ‘Young Jim’ as he came to be known) who, at this time, lived with her in her residence on Gardiner Place.
Personal cheque from William Pearse’s personal bank account with the Terenure branch of the Royal Bank of Ireland Limited, for the payment of £2 to Percy C. Webb. The cheque is signed by Pearse.
A letter to Margaret Pearse from Anna H. Fraher, 4 Bridge Street, Tralee, County Kerry. The letter refers to the impending plans to emigrate to the United States on board the SS ‘Imperator’.
Letter to Margaret Pearse from Sara Coughlan, ‘Ard-na-Ri’, South Ridge Road, Durban, South Africa. She asks for a copy of a prospectus for St. Enda’s School and expresses her hopes that her children will ‘become fluent speakers of Irish, and grow up with a truly Irish spirit’.
Letter to Margaret Pearse from Caitlin bean Ui [ ], 4 Arundel Drive, Langside, Glasgow. The letter notes that she is organizing ‘a little sale of work for the Irish Distress Fund’.