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A letter from JC. Landy, managing director, managing director, Clover Meats, Waterford, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., enclosing a cheque for £2 2s for the Monteith fund.

A letter from James Sleator to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his support for the ‘national tribute’ to Jack B. Yeats.

Letter from James O’Connor, solicitor, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., regarding a note from British military authorities affirming that ‘certain historical papers … [which] were returned to the late Archbishop Walsh ... . O’Connor advises Fr. Aloysius to ascertain from the Archbishop’s house what papers were returned.

A letter from James McCormack to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and for the ‘great tribute’ to his late brother.

A letter from James Mason (1909-1984), the English-born Hollywood actor, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to Mason’s tribute to the late Abbey Theatre actor F.J. McCormick (d. 24 April 1947), which appeared in the 1948 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Mason got acquainted with McCormick when they both appeared in the 1947 film ‘Odd Man Out’ in which the former played a mortally wounded republican bank robber on the run in Belfast. Mason requests that his fee for his McCormick tribute be donated to an ‘animal charity’ in Dublin.

A letter from James Mallon, ‘The Frongoch Hairdressing Saloon’, 30 Eden Quay, Dublin, to Mollie Baxter, The Capuchin Annual Office, Church Street, Dublin, congratulating the committee on their ‘magnificent work’ in assisting Captain Robert Monteith. Mallon also decries what he characterizes as the shameful treatment of Monteith who survives on a measly state pension. He writes ‘I don’t think you or your committee know how he has been treated by our patriotic country. He is in receipt of the large amount of £46 a year under the 1934 [Military Services Pension] Act. It is a disgrace, had he been captured by John Bull during Easter Week, he would be today either lying on top of or alongside of Roger Casement in Wormwood Prison in London’. He concludes ‘It seems Ireland never had any use for live heroes, they are always dead ones’.

A clipping of a letter from James M. Dillon referring to Fr. Senan Moynihan’s ability to secure paper to print ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Dillon suggests that some of the articles in the ‘Annual’ could be described as ‘blatant, if incongruous Fianna Fáil propaganda’. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (10 July 1942).

A letter from James J. Campbell, 27 Old Cavehill Road, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., referring to his comment on the ‘Orange Terror’ article by ‘Ultach’ in ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

A letter from James J. Campbell, 27 Old Cavehill Road, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., expressing his admiration for the 1943 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Campbell writes ‘To Northern folk it makes a most direct appeal and you have earned their very real gratitude. Irish scholarship has reason to be proud of your work’.

Letter from James A. Whelan to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the popularity of the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ in London.