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A copy letter from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic O'Connor's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the local newspapers.

Photocopy of a letter from Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap., Capuchin Franciscan College, Rochestown, County Cork, to Winifred Etheridge, c/o Major F. Etheridge DSO, Broadway Cottage, Littleham, North Exmouth, Devon. The letter (27 January 1923) provides a detailed, eyewitness description of an engagement between Free State soldiers and irregular republicans near Rochestown College in August 1922. Winifred Etheridge was a sister of Ian McKenzie Kennedy, a Scottish-born republican, who died during the battle. The file also includes a photocopy of a letter (26 August 1922) from Nora Lucey, 3 Pembroke Street, Cork, to Mrs McKenzie Kennedy providing further detail on the skirmish and on the death of her son, Ian McKenzie Kennedy. A copy sketch map (drawn by Fr. Michael O'Shea OFM Cap.) showing details of the battle between Free State forces and Anti-Treaty irregulars around Rochestown is also extant in the file.

Copy letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Yeats refers to a 'loan exhibition' which Fr. Senan wants to organize for the artist. Yeats writes 'I am afraid that such an exhibition would be against the sale of my paintings. The suggestion might come to people that I had retired'. A later letter from Yeats in the volume states that he would be in favour of such an exhibition to be held in 1945.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘The fact is I am extremely disgusted with what I read in this morning’s papers, especially the action of the ungrateful Irish Party’.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I am placed in a very paradoxical position – an image maker by profession and an image breaker by inclination’. He adds ‘I have been dangling – to use a scriptural phrase – between Hell and Heaven for the last twenty five years of my life: only that I reverse the meaning of the words: - everything appertaining to ecclesiasticism I regard as the former; and to be free of which, I regard as the latter’.

Copy letter from James Pearse to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter reads ‘I have written a letter to the “Agnostic Journal” upon [the] same subject (agnosticism and atheism) principally because my name was mentioned therein’.

Copy letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha, Seminary Villas, Cork, regarding her wish to have ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” published elsewhere. She asserts that its publication in ‘The Father Mathew Record’ should not prevent this.

Copy letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha referring to Br. Senan Moynihan’s assertion that he (Ó Murchadha) had supplied the manuscript copy of part two of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” to the friar.

Copy letter from Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. She recalls her visit to Assisi in Italy and her joining of the Third Order of St. Francis in 1910. She also refers to her father who was a 'colonel of the 17th Lancers ... [and] assistant adjutant in Dublin at the time of his death'. She also mentions her article on Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (1880-1944) and her founding of St. Ultan's Hopsital. She writes 'For simple goodness and faith, she was was one of the most remarkable women I have known, and in spite of being a complete invalid for many years before her death, she accomplished great work for the poor children of Dublin'.

Copy letter from Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to his chaplain, Fr. E.F. Murnane, regarding the progress of his appeal against the indictment of high treason. With a letter (2 Aug. 1916) from E.F. Murnane, The Presbytery, Dockhead, [Bermondsey, London, S.E.], in the same hand, to George Gavan Duffy regarding Casement’s last hours. Includes a copy extract from a letter from the Prison Chaplain giving a brief account of Casement’s piety before his execution. The file also includes an original letter from Roger Casement, Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, S.W., to Francis H. Cowper (16 Dec. 1903) declaring that all is well him ‘but fearful Congo row is brewing and I shall be the storm centre I fear’. He adds 'Give the brindled John my love and a kiss on his black nose. I wish I were in Lisbon now …’. The ‘brindled John’ was presumably a domestic cat or dog owned by Cowper; brindled referring to a specific type of patchy colouring most commonly associated with the patterned fur of cats. It is unknown how this letter was acquired by the Capuchin friars but it is likely that it was given to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. for safekeeping by an nationalist acquaintance.