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Letters to James Pearse from Annie Besant, Freethought Publishing Company, 63 Fleet Street, and Oatlands, Mortimer Road, St. John’s Wood, London. The letters refer to Pearse’s efforts to have his article published by the Freethought Publishing Company. Many of the letters relate to Pearse’s account with the publishing company and to progress of sales of the publication. Besant’s letter of 29 January 1883 states that Pearse can dedicate his article to Charles Bradlaugh. The letter (13 March 1883) reads ‘I send you the MS of “Heaven”, the printer having found it after considerable trouble. The other MS has disappeared in the bottomless pit of used copy’. Other letters suggest the titles of Pearse’s work are ‘Thoughts or Heaven’ and ‘House of Commons’. In a letter from Pearse to Besant (25 May 1884), he expresses his wish to use the word ‘Humanitas’ rather than his name in any published report. A letter (4 October 1884) from Besant reads ‘your pamphlet, issued anonymously would not sell in large numbers, and you would certainly lose. Further, Socialism is not a selling subject. Even Mr. Bradlaugh’s pamphlet against [it] … have not sold so largely as the other issues of the same series by the same writers’.

A file including correspondence and related papers re the publication of Fr. Richard Henebry’s ‘A Handbook of Irish Music’. This work was eventually published posthumously by Henebry’s colleagues in University College Cork in 1928. The book was based on a surviving Henebry manuscript which Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. had acquired. Portions of the text were published by Fr. Senan in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. The 1928 publication was edited by Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Henebry’s successor as Professor of Irish in UCC.

The file includes correspondence between Sir Bertram Windle and Carl Gilbert Hardebeck on the value of Henebry’s manuscript (1914-16). Windle later affirmed that he did not publish the book at this time (1916) due to the financial cost of such an undertaking (see Windle’s letter to Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. on 4 July 1924). The correspondence from 1924 onward includes letters between Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., John English & Co., and several other printing and publishing companies, re the publication of Henebry’s manuscript. The file also includes letters from Seán Ó Currín, Eoin (John) Henebry, William Frederick Paul Stockley, Tomás de Faoite (Clonlisk, County Offaly), Edmund Downey, Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap. (re the publication of extracts of the Henebry manuscript in the ‘The Father Mathew Record’), Fr. Michael Sheehan, Frank Ryan (the file includes several letters from Ryan written in Irish), Mac Giolla Bhríde (William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne), Fr. Maurus Phelan OCSO, William O’Brien (Bellevue, Mallow), Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Seán Ó Ciarghusa, Joseph B. Whelehan, Liam de Róiste, Fr. Richard Aylward (President, St. Kiernan’s College, Kilkenny), Patrick F. Rooney (71 West 95th Street, New York City), William Henry Grattan Flood, Maureen MacLysaght (Hazelwood, Mallow, County Cork), Fr. William Carrigan, (Durrow, County Laois), Douglas Hyde, Fr. Patrick MacSwiney, Fr. Patrick Power, Seán Ó Floinn, Patrick J. Merriman, and Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. Includes letters to Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’) forwarding subscriptions for Henebry’s ‘A Handbook of Irish Music’ along with advertisement notices, lists of subscribers, order forms, and newspaper clippings.

A letter in this file from Eoin Henebry to Fr. Senan refers to a manuscript titled ‘The Fair Hosts of the Books of Erin’ written by Fr. Richard Henebry which his brother suggests has already been published. He mentions that all the ‘old stuff has been gone over by Seán Ó Currín, Seán Ó Floinn, and by Phil O’Neill’. (27 Aug. 1924).

Letters, memoranda, and printed matter re Fr. Richard Henebry’s appointment to the chair of Irish at the Catholic University in Washington DC. The file includes letters from Fr. Thomas Joseph Shahan, University Rector, re Henebry’s appointment. Shahan wrote ‘The students of your courses are likely, both for Gaelic and Sanskrit, to be persons of considerable culture, graduates of colleges, or people of leisure from the city, which has a population of about ¼ million, mostly government officials and their families’ (21 May 1895). A letter from Fr. Thomas James Conaty, Rector, refers to Henebry’s ill-health (27 Aug. 1900) while a later letter (5 July 1901) informs him that his contract would not be renewed. The file also includes a typescript copy of a statement from Henebry to the board of trustees of the Catholic University stating his educational attainments and stating his case for reappointment to the Chair of Irish. With three copies of a printed leaflet titled ‘Facts for Brother Hibernians / Save the Gaelic Chair and the Honor of Ireland’ (1902).

Correspondence of Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly with authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The correspondents include Paddy Tunney, enclosing typescript copies of poems and stories titled ‘Sapspill’, ‘The Scales of Justice’, and ‘Mayfly’, Kevin Faller, Paul Martin-Dillon, Anne Mills, Seán Crawford, Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM, President of Marymount College, New York, Liam O’Shaughnessy, and Michael McDonald.

Letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly from authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1965). The file includes letters from Fr. F.X. Martin OSA, James Lyons, T.E. Gorman, Dorothea Barclay, Máirin bean uí Mhurchadha, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., ‘Redmond O’Hanlon’, Sister Mary Gertrude Cain RSHM, President of Marymount College, New York, Basil Payne, J.J. Stuart, John P. Barton, Desmond Fennell, Michael McDonald, Alison King, Joseph Foyle, Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., J.F. Dempsey, Sean Ó Síocháin, Patrick J McLaughlin, Augustine Martin, Vivion de Valera and Frank Murphy.

Letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly from authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1966). The file also includes letters from individuals who refused invitations to contribute articles or authors whose contributions were not published. The file includes letters from J.N. Allen, James Lyons, Diarmaid Ó Tuama, John P. Barton, Margaret Holland, Manix Joyce, William H. Kotoun, Tim O’Mahony, Frank Murphy, Rev. Victor De Paor, Padraig Ó Ceallaigh, Sidney Z. Ehler, Liam O Briain, Frank MacManus, Liam O’Buachalla, W. T. Cosgrave, Basil Payne, Fr. John Baptist of Farnese OFM Cap., Piaras Mac Lochlainn, Sean T. O’Kelly, Rev. Dr. Percy Jones, Liam Maher, Joseph A. McKenna, Kevin Faller, Peter D. Thomas, Christopher Campbell, Stephen Jordan, Josephine Faul, Mervyn Wall, Seán Lemass, Pádraig Ó Caoimh, Michael McDonald, V.M. Kabes, Alison King, William O’Sullivan, J.S. Doran, Fr. James W. Kelly, George Morrison, John M. Scarry, Beda Brophy, Brian Mac Giolla Pádraig, Edmund Burke, Oliver Snoddy, Mattie Neilan, Anselm Lovett, Augustine Martin, Fr. Reginald Walker CSSp., Patrick Schofield, Bertie Donohoe, Tadhg Gavin, Dan Dineen, Liam Ruiséal, Mícheál W. Ó Murchú, James J. Brennan and Joseph Foyle.

Letters to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. mainly from authors re articles due to appear in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The file includes letters from Geraldine Dillon, Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Máire Ní Ceallaig, James W. Kelly, Daniel Nolan ('The Kerryman'), Dr. S. Bolshakoff, Niall Sheridan, Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Mervyn Wall, Julester Shrady Post, Joan Hammond, Alfred E. Jones, Fr. Michael Hurley SJ, Oliver Snoddy, Brian Mac Giolla Pádraig, Fr. William Coughlan OFM Cap., Richard Mulcahy, Seán Ó Luing, Mannix Joyce, John O. Murrin, Monsignor Tomás Ó Fiaich, Grace Eckely, the Most. Rev. Peter Birch, Bishop of Ossory, Florence O’Donoghue, Sinéad de Valera, and William Nolan. The file includes a flier advertising the contents of the 1967 edition of the 'Annual'.