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Letter to Patrick Pearse from A. Brendan Ford, editor, ‘New York Freeman’s Journal and Catholic Register’, 13 Barclay Street, New York. Ford suggests that Pearse has ‘one of the highest gifts from the Gods – the trick of swaying hearts with your words’. The letter appears be incomplete.

Letter from the Royal Insurance Office, to Margaret Pearse, Sandymount Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin, re a policy of life insurance on her late husband (James Pearse) and the amount paid to the National Bank Ltd. on his death. With two manuscript enclosures seemingly re James Pearse’s debts and his account with the National Bank (4 March 1902).

A letter to Margaret Mary Pearse from Delia Larkin forwarding a payment for tuition fees to St. Enda’s School. The tuition fees are seemingly for her nephew Jim Larkin Jnr (or ‘Young Jim’ as he came to be known) who, at this time, lived with her in her residence on Gardiner Place.

Letter to Margaret Mary Pearse from a Jesuit priest at St. Francis Xavier Church, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, inviting her to the Father Theobald Mathew celebrations in the Mansion House. The letter concludes with ‘God bless our new Senator’.

Card to Margaret Mary Pearse from an individual in Cork expressing their delight on hearing that St. Enda’s School is re-opening. The signature is indecipherable.

Letter to John Ribton Garstin from A. Fuller expressing his hope that Garstin will vote for Alexander Edward Miller at the forthcoming Trinity College by-election.

Letter to James Pearse from R. Forder, publisher, 28 Stonecutter Street, London, regarding an order for books from Pearse.

Letter to James Pearse from George Standring, printer and publisher 7 & 9 Finsbury Street, London. The letter refers to disappointing sales for a publication and his advertising for the same in the ‘Freethinker’ and ‘National Reformer’ magazines.

Letter to James Pearse from George St. Clair, 127 Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, expressing his thanks for sending the ‘small volume by “Humanitas”’.

Letter to Frank Fahy (Proinsias Ó Fathaigh), Ceann Comhairle, Dáil Éireann, from an individual at ‘c/o Mr. Patrick Burtage, Main Street’ and Kilmalogue, Portarlington, County Laois.