Expense and cheque account book of the Capuchin Publications Office. The accounts provide details of expenditure in respect of monies paid for advertising, staff salaries, contributor articles and for printing.
Card from Bishop Patrick Lyons to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the gift of a copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The image side of the card shows construction work on the Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Felim (Cavan Cathedral) in the diocese of Kilmore in December 1940.
A card from Eric Gill, Pigotts, High Wycombe, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ which he describes as both interesting and valuable.
A card from Fr. Michael O’Shea OFM Cap. conveying his Christmas greetings to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The card is illustrated with an ink self-portrait.
Card from Lady Eleanor Yarrow to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for a copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She also refers to her trip to Killarney. The image side of the card shows a view of Garinish Island off the coast of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry.
Card to Anna Fahy, 17 Norfolk Road, Phibsborough, Dublin, from Richard Francis Hayes giving an account of his and Frank Fahy’s imprisonment in Reading Jail. He writes ‘We are doing fairly well here – thanks especially to Frank who has been everything to us. I have only one complaint against him and I tell you because you will sympathise with me. He is next cell to me and has a frightful habit of making dreadful noise in his cell in the dark mornings between 6 & 7. He insists on persuading me he is singing & is training his voice!’.
Postcard to Frank Fahy, ‘Q.2/34 / Irish prisoner of war, Lewes Prison’. The card is signed ‘Ui Dálaigh’. It appears that Fahy’s correspondent was a prisoner himself. The image-side has a portrait print of Edward Daly, the executed 1916 Rising leader. A manuscript annotation underneath the portrait reads ‘Patrick’s Day / 1917 / Q.121’. The card reads ‘Dear Frank / Just a reminder that our thoughts are with you this Patrick’s Day and every day until the sun shines for us all again’.
