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.
A copy letter from An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire, Castlelyons, County Cork, to Sister Treasa le hÍosa (possibly Sister Teresa Curtis, St. Clare’s Convent, Carlow). The letter refers to an Irish translation of a traditional Marian hymn. The letter reads ‘This Irish hymn can be sung to the same music to which the English senseless one is usually sung’.
Copy letter from Richard Mulcahy to the Most Rev. Michael Fogarty, Bishop of Killaloe (1859-1955), regarding apparent misrepresentations re the revolutionary period in a book by the historian, P. S. O’Hegarty (1879-1955).
Copy letter to Margaret Mary Pearse from Donadlo Stewart, Casillia 201, Bolivia, seeking information on the progress of the collection in aid of the fund for the purchase of St. Enda’s School.
Copy letter to [Patrick Pearse] from Seumas MacManus, Plainfield, New Jersey, re a meeting. MacManus also affirms that he has sent a letter to the ‘Gaelic American’ about Pearse’s ‘mission’.
Copy letter from Roger Casement, Pentonville Prison, to Fr. E.F. Murnane dated 16 July 1916. With a copy extract from a letter from Fr. Murnane, Presbytery, Dockhead, [Bermondsey, London, S.E.], to George Gavan Duffy (Aug. 1917). The extract reads ‘He [Casement] faced death like a gallant Irish gentleman with the added courage and confidence of a good catholic. He talked freely of his death and was looking forward to his confession …’. The copy file concludes with a copy extract from a letter from Fr. James Carey, prison chaplain, giving a brief account of Casement’s piety before his execution.
Photographic print of Sir John Lavery’s painting titled ‘High Treason: The Appeal of Roger Casement, The Court of Criminal Appeal, 17 and 18 July 1916’. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print credits the photograph to T.F. Geoghegan, 2 Essex Quay, Dublin.