Letter from Dorothy Godfrey, 267 West, 139 Street, New York City, to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, referring to the poor treatment which Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. received from the higher echelons of the clergy and the Order. She asserts: ‘May God forgive the clergy or Free Staters who had a hand in his exile. Sending a dying priest 3,500 miles across our land. I went with him to the train and it left a picture in my mind that cannot be blotted out. Another Christ carrying his cross. He was not able to drag his feet across the platform and carrying a heavy bag’.
A letter from Felix Partridge to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. referring to his brother William Partridge's last days and thanking the Capuchin friar for his words of sympathy.
Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, stating that he is ‘getting weaker gradually – the end is apparently not far off’. Fr. Albert admits that the presence of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. is a great comfort as his death approaches.
Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. [Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.] referring to his journey to the United States on board the steamship 'Republic'. In Irish
Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to [Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap.] referring to the poor state of the Santa Inés mission. He also expresses his satisfaction on hearing of news in Ireland. He writes ‘I get the "Irish World" and occasionally "Sinn Féin" and so I am kept in touch with Irish affairs – Frank Gallagher’s Prison Daily and other articles I devour even though they pierce my very soul and make me sob like a child’. Bibby asserts that he has said mass for Erskine Childers on his anniversary and will do ‘tomorrow for Rory, Liam, Dick & Joe’. He adds ‘I can never forget what was said, what certain Friars said when my dearest friend Erskine and Rory etc. were slain, oh how their bitter words tore my very soul asunder’.
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