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Letter to Patrick Pearse from Sr. M. Patrick, St. Mary’s Literary Academy, Muckross, Donnybrook, Dublin, referring to a meeting at the Academy and a paper titled ‘The present state of music in Ireland’. She also asks if Margaret Mary Pearse can play some harp music at the event.

Letter to Patrick Pearse from [N.] Tighe, 209 Merrion Square, Booterstown, County Dublin, seeking a copy of the prospectus for St. Enda’s School.

A collection of mainly legal and financial papers relating to St. Enda’s School (Scoil Éanna), an Irish language college established by Patrick Pearse in Cullenswood House on Oakley Road in Ranelagh, Dublin, in 1908. The school moved to the Hermitage, a former country house in Rathfarnham, in 1910. Pearse founded St. Ita’s School for girls along the same general lines as St. Enda’s in Cullenswood House in 1910, when he moved St. Enda's boys' school to Rathfarnham. Some of the records refer to the precarious financial state of St. Enda’s and to Pearse’s efforts to raise funds to keep the school solvent. The section also contains some miscellaneous notes by Pearse on education-related subjects. Some of the documents listed below are in either Pearse’s hand or are endorsed with his signature.

Notice for rates for Cullenswood House, Oakley Road in the district of Rathmines and Rathgar to be paid by George Paterson.

Copy requisitions on title to premises on the west side of Cullenswood Avenue in Ranelagh, Dublin, from George Patterson to Patrick Pearse. The requisitions were compiled by French & French, solicitors, St. Stephen’s Green North, Dublin, for W.A. McMullen, solicitor for the purchaser (Pearse), 3 South Frederick Street, Dublin.

Receipt for rates for Cullenswood House, Oakley Road, in the district of Rathmines and Rathgar paid by Patrick Pearse on 14 Aug. 1908.

A note re deductions from the purchase money paid by Patrick Pearse to George Paterson for Cullenswood House. The note was prepared by French & French, solicitors, St. Stephen’s Green North, Dublin.

Two studio portraits of a young boy in Gaelic dress. The photographs show ‘Frank Dowling in his costume for a production of “The Boy Deeds of Cuchulainn” by Patrick Pearse in June 1909. The prints are credited to M. Glover Limited, 124 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.

A volume (Browne’s Whole Page Diary for 1948) containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. The volume contains letters to: John English Ltd., printers, Sr. Mary Anastasia MMM, Fr. Michael Glynn, Joy Walda, A.J. O’Reilly, Arthur M. Campbell, Robert Ostermann, Daphne Pochin Mould, Alison King, ‘Simon Pederek’, J.R. Bainbridge, Doran Hurley, Thomas F. McNamara, Fr. Sylvester O’Brien OFM, Kenneth MacGowan, Edward Daly, Donal O’Cahill, Fr. Francis X. Dent, Sean Neeson, Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, Most Rev. James Moynagh, Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Rockwell Newman, Fr. Aquinas Carroll OFM Cap., Most Rev. David Mathew, Rev. David Mathew, Rev. David O’Driscoll, Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., Beatrice McCahill, Rev. Aubrey Gwynn SJ, Clare Thornton, Seamus MacManus, D.L. Kelleher, Michael J. Lennon, K.M. Murphy, Richard J. King, Diarmuid Breathnach, Jean Norton, Beda Herbert, James Rice, Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap., Desmond Cryan, Basil Clancy, Rev. Anthony J. Cleary, Most Rev. Charles H. Helming, Fr. Aidan McGrath, John Nagel, Vincent J. Walker, Dr. Joseph Szoverffy, Fr. Terence Connolly SJ, Rev. Patrick Rogers, Rev. T.J. Walsh, and Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap.

A volume containing drafts of outgoing letters written by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap., mostly to contributors, authors, advertisers, patrons and printers associated with 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes copy letters to: Fr. Jerome Kiely, Liam Brophy, Fr. T.J. Walsh, Alison King, the Most Rev. Peter Thomas McKeefry, Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Marie Noelle Kelly, Tadhg Gavin, and Seán Crawford.
• A copy letter to Doran Hurley refers to the prospects of increasing sales of the 'Annual' in the United States (3 Oct. 1957).
• A copy letter to Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. refers to the appointment of Br. Berard Creed OFM Cap., Fr. Henry’s nephew, as editor of 'The Father Mathew Record', and to Fr. Senan who ‘keeps in the best of form and is enjoying the quiet life – relieved of the onus of this place’. (21 Feb. 1958).