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Draft letter of Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, guardian, to the Holy Trinity Friary reminding the friars of their duties and affirming that he give them ‘every freedom and latitude consistent with our Franciscan Capuchin Life’.

Memorandum possibly compiled by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, Provincial Minister, listing ‘properties which were purchased or exchanged by the superiors of the Province from time to time’. The schedule refers to transactions involving properties and lands held in Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork city and Rochestown. The Cork section refers to the ‘purchase of stores etc. at [the] sanctuary-end of Father Mathew Memorial Church, and the exchange of part of the same for the property upon which the new extension of [the] sanctuary is built …’. It is noted that the ‘annual rent of the Cork church house and garden etc. is about £160’.