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A photographic print showing two views of a traditional (medieval) Irish harp. The print is by G.D. Croker, Waterford.

A draft article on the life and work of An tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire. The article suggests that ‘an Athair Peadar’s Irish of the People and the autonomous verb have won the day. So, it is not alone for the quantity of his works but for the wide field in which he worked that we have to claim for an Athair Peadar that he is the “Father of Modern Irish”’. The author added ‘He was ordained in 1867, the Fenian year, and his pays his tribute to the Fenian men with the reserve of the Catholic priest reminding us that in O’Donovan Rossa’s paper there was no word of Irish …’. The article appears to be incomplete.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from [ ] Ó Colgáin, Gaelic League of the State of New York, 224 East 62nd Street, New York, asking Pearse if would like to contribute an article for a Feis programme to be held in Celtic Park in June 1914.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from An tAthair Ua Cathasaigh, Visitation Rectory, Richard Street, Brooklyn, New York, enclosing $10 for Pearse’s St. Enda’s School fund.

Blank headed paper from The Gaelic Society, 624 Madison Avenue, Emmet Arcade, New York. The note provides the names of the Society’s patrons and prominent members. Manuscript annotations on the reverse provide a short list of names.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from E.A. Webb, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, seeking a prospectus for St. Enda’s School.