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A letter from Jack B. Yeats, 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., declining to write anything on 'this sad Irish question and the cruelties that go with it’.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding a tribute article for the late Abbey Theatre actor, F.J. McCormick (1890-1947). Yeats refers to McCormick as ‘a very great actor’ but indicates that he will be unable to contribute to a tribute to be published in the 1948 edition of the ‘Annual’.

A clipping of a letter from James M. Dillon referring to Fr. Senan Moynihan’s ability to secure paper to print ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Dillon suggests that some of the articles in the ‘Annual’ could be described as ‘blatant, if incongruous Fianna Fáil propaganda’. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (10 July 1942).

A letter from James Mason (1909-1984), the English-born Hollywood actor, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to Mason’s tribute to the late Abbey Theatre actor F.J. McCormick (d. 24 April 1947), which appeared in the 1948 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Mason got acquainted with McCormick when they both appeared in the 1947 film ‘Odd Man Out’ in which the former played a mortally wounded republican bank robber on the run in Belfast. Mason requests that his fee for his McCormick tribute be donated to an ‘animal charity’ in Dublin.

A letter from Jennie Dowdall (1899-1974) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. seeking prints for use by the Cork Vocational Education Committee.

A letter from J.J. Campbell, 27 Old Cavehill Road, Belfast, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., referring to his comment on the ‘Orange Terror’ article by ‘Ultach’ in ‘The Capuchin Annual’.

Letter from John Henebry (Eoin de Hindeberg) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. He refers to his shock on hearing that some pages from a manuscript written by his late brother (Fr. Richard Henebry) have been lost. He expresses his hope that the 'lost tunes' will be found. The manuscript referred to was published as a ‘A Handbook of Irish Music’ in 1928.

A letter from John Lloyd to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to his service in the Great War and to his participation in the Connaught Rangers Mutiny in India in 1920.

Letter from John McCormack, Moore Abbey, Monasterevan, County Kildare, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. expressing his admiration for ‘The Capuchin Annual’ which he describes as ‘wonderfully interesting, entertaining, and instructive’. He also refers to his personal attachment to the Capuchins as both his father and mother have been members of the Third Order of Saint Francis for over half a century.