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Letter to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., guardian, from John D. Fitzgerald, solicitor, 35 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, regarding legal proceedings for the removal of an iron shed on premises (Drea’s Yard) leased by the Capuchins on Pennyfeather Lane.

Letter from an anonymous correspondent to the guardian, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, on the need to for the re-organisation of the temperance movement in Kilkenny. The correspondent refers to a newspaper article written by him in 1904 (clipping enclosed) in which he calls for the establishment by the Capuchins of a Boys Brigade club in the city.

Letter to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. from Fr. Valentine OFM, Franciscan Convent, St. Laurence Street, Drogheda, enclosing a statement regarding Teresa Bradley’s (formerly Gilmartin) membership of the local congregation of the Third Order of St. Francis.

Letter from Martin J. Crotty, solicitor, 45 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, to Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., guardian, regarding an undertaking (as a condition of sale) that the directors of the New Cinema Company would not build an entrance or exit from their premises which would front onto Friary (Walkin) Street. With signed agreement.

Letter from James Poe & F.M.J. Lyons, solicitors, Kilkenny, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a list of deeds connected with the purchase of property (on Pudding Lane) from Patrick Francis Doran. With searches from the registry of deeds.

Letter from James F. Reade, Waterford, to Nicholas Shorthal, solicitor, enclosing a sketch map (32.6 cms x 21.4 cms; Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet) of premises to be conveyed by Rev. Robinson to Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe. Reade adds some explanatory comments in relation to the sketch map and affirms that ‘Sir Henry Harte has nothing to do with the yards above mentioned’. Includes a schedule of tenants holding on lots on the premises. The said sketch map and schedule were reproduced in the deed of conveyance of 21 Jan. 1919 at CA KK/2/1/1/3/13.

Letter from Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC regarding a story told to him by the Most Rev. Thomas Francis Hendricken (1827-1886), Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, during a visit to Kilkenny in c.1873. The story concerns a false accusation made against a priest by a young woman in the early 1830s. Fr. O’Dea also referred to his temperance ministry in India where the 2nd Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment were quartered. With a typescript note by Fr. Angelus.

Ledger containing an alphabetically arranged listing of accounts with various suppliers mostly in Kilkenny. The volume includes accounts with Walter Lanigan, draper, J. White, organ tuner, the Hibernian Bank, the Gas Company, Coyle Brothers, stationers, the Sisters of Charity, and St. Joseph’s Schools. An index is given at the start of the volume. Manuscript title on front cover reads ‘House Ledger’.

Lease from Frances and Grace Blair, spinsters, Dublin, to Fr. James Lewis O’Reardon and Fr. John Laurence O’Flynn OSFC, Kilkenny, of a gateway and yard formerly held by Humphrey Semple, and a house currently occupied by Thomas Aylwood, situated on Walkin Street, forever at the yearly rent of £6. With a manuscript copy.

Archival reference book for the holdings in the Library of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny. The title of the volume (Eason’s blank-index notebook) is annotated: ‘Archivium … fiosrú 1945 – an 14 Márta ‘45’. The final page of the volume contains a map showing the physical arrangement of the stacks in the archive made by Fr. Hubert Grealy OFM Cap. Includes references to ‘capitular enactments’, ‘appointments of guardians and vicars’ and ‘deeds, leases etc’.