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Correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Presbytery, Church Street, relating to arrears of an annuity (2s 6d) due from Michael Murphy, a tenant occupying premises on Bow Street. The file includes a certificate from the North Dublin Union Workhouse notifying the friends of Michael Murphy that his remains will be at their disposal on 24 Aug. 1887 and a receipt from Thomas Fitzpatrick and Mary Anne Fitzpatrick for £2 ‘which was the amount due by the Fathers to Mr. Michael Murphy for his holding which is now free forever from rent or charge of any kind. We accept this to bury him and renounce all further claims on the Community’.

Correspondence relating to a lease by O’Ferrall to the Capuchins of Nos. 133 and 134 Church Street. Correspondents include Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, Capuchin Convent, John O’Hagan, solicitor, 9 Harcourt Street, Dublin (later Arthur O’Hagan & Son), and Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great George’s Street. On 25 Jan. 1884 Fr. Bernard wrote: ‘The property which we hold from Mr. O’Farrell consists of 2 houses in Church Street, nos. 133 & 134 (now in the possession of a Mr. John Ryan who is I suppose a sub-tenant to us) and a plot of ground running from Church Street to Bow Street upon which I believe a house formerly stood, but which was condemned by the Corporation and had to be taken down’.

Correspondence relating to the transfer of properties on Church Street (nos. 155-157) to lay trustees of the Catholic Boys’ Brigade. Correspondents include, Thomas J. Furlong, solicitor, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin, Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC, Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Provincial Minister, William Mooney & Son, solicitors, 16 Fleet Street, Dublin, Michael Murphy, solicitor, 44 South Mall, Cork, and John Jameson, Bow Street Distillery, Dublin. Most of the correspondence relates to instructions to be given to solicitors with respect to the drawing up of a conveyance for the above-mentioned properties and to the need for approval of the deed which allows Fr. Matthew O’Connor OSFC and Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC to retire from their trusteeship. John Jameson assured Fr. Fiacre that ‘this company would be very reluctant to put up a building that would be objectionable to your community. … I thought there was no likelihood of the neighbourly relations which have always existed between this company and yourselves being interrupted’. On 20 Dec. 1904 Fr. Paul Neary OSFC stated that the ‘members of our Order who are trustees of the Church Street premises of the Boys’ Brigade have no desire to continue their trusteeship and are willing to hand it to any persons to whom they can do so, without breach of their trust’.

Correspondence of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC relating to a Corporation plan for the widening of Carter’s Lane. Most of the correspondence relates to a dispute with John Rogers who possessed stores at the corner of Smithfield facing onto Carter’s Lane and who objected to the scheme. The file includes a printed 'Report of the Paving Committee' which notes that Messrs John Jameson & Sons, the head landlords, have raised no objection to the proposed scheme. The Reports reads: ‘We are informed that nearly half the congregation of St. Mary’s Church are obliged to use this thoroughfare, in addition to which, on market days, loads of hay and straw are constantly passing through it’. 21 May 1912. Correspondents include Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Ignatius Rice, law agent, Dublin Corporation, and the Local Government Board.

Correspondence regarding a legal dispute arising out of a lease of 48 North King Street offered by the Capuchin friars to Patrick Macken. On 14 Dec. 1871, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC wrote to Macken offering him a lease of the said premises at the yearly rent of £38. Correspondents include Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, Patrick Macken and Henry Oldham, solicitor, 42 Fleet Street, Dublin. A note from Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC is also included in the file. It reads ‘Make Mr. T. O’Reilly hasten with the maps and valuation of N. King Street properties and N. Brunswick Street to get the faculty from Rome for selling them’.

Correspondence of J.H.J. Edgeley, chief boiler engineer, and H.C. Brown, chief engineer, British General Insurance Company, Ocean Buildings, Cross Key Court, Copthall Avenue, London, with the guardians of the Church Street community, regarding liabilities and insurance for repairs to the Friary’s boiler and water system. With covers.

Correspondence with G.C. Pillinger & Co., 43 Grand Parade, Cork, regarding the inspection and maintenance of the boiler and heating systems at the Capuchin Friary, Church Street. With promotional literature from the company.

Correspondence, renewal notices and receipts for payments made by the Capuchin community, Church Street, to the Irish Catholic Church Property Insurance Company, 19 & 20 Fleet Street, Dublin. The file includes fire insurance policies covering the ‘Church, Friary, Committee Rooms of the Third Order of St. Francis, Sacred Heart Chapel and Domestic Offices … situate and known as “St. Mary of the Angels”, Church Street, Dublin’. Also includes receipts for payments made in respect of Employer’s Liability Insurance and forms for the renewal of said policies. With the correspondence of Valentine Iriwn, secretary of the insurance company, with Fr. Charles Brophy OFM Cap. and subsequent guardians of the community. In 1957, the total cost of the buildings and contents insured was £107,800 with a net annual premium of £60 12s 9d. With covers.

Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, solicitor, 11 Eustace Street, Dublin, associated with ‘tenants’ costs of and incidental to obtaining a fee farm grant of premises on Church Street’. The fee farm was granted by Caroline Sophia Hunt to Fr. William (Paul) Neary OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC. The costs cover routine solicitors’ expenses from 19 Aug. 1912-30 Nov. 1912. The total amount due was noted as £25 13s 4d. On 5 Nov. 1912, Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC informed Furlong that he ‘had no document to identify the numbers of the houses with the premises in the old lease’. Furlong had already walked around the whole property constituting the Friary and ‘found no trace of the old buildings’. He also inspected the architect’s ground plans but could obtain no positive proof as to buildings referred to in the fee farm grant.