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Letters from T.W. Magahy & Son, organ builders, 10-11 Merchant Street, Cork, regarding the costs of overhauling the organ at Holy Trinity Church.

Letters from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, concerning a dispute with a Mrs Cussen, a tenant of 16 Queen Street (later Father Mathew Street), over repairs to the roof of the said property which she believes the Capuchins, as landlords, are responsible for.

Letters from P. Torphy, Power’s Court, Upper Mount Street, Dublin; P. Hennessy & Sons, plumbing engineers and contractors, 61 Grand Parade, Cork; M. Barry Ltd., 4 Marlboro Street, Cork, Thomas H.M. Wain, consulting engineer, 15 Cook Street, Cork; Charles McCarthy & Sons, heating and sanitary engineers, Emmet Place, Cork; the Electricity Supply Board, concerning the tenders and specifications for the installation of a new heating system at Holy Trinity Church. James Finbarre McMullen (c.1909-1957) was the consulting architect for the installation. See also CA HT/2/4/2.

Letters to Fr. Martin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity, Cork, from J.C. Carroll & Sons, solicitors, 80 South Mall, Cork, regarding the proposed purchase by the Capuchins of rents payable to the estate of Richard Wood. The file includes rent receipts for the payment (1930-43) of the said rents ranging from £2 0s 0d to £11 13s 6d.

Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., St. Bonaventure’s, Cork, seeking information on the Capuchins of Cork city (with sources) from circa 1654-1766. Fr. Stanislaus refers to Fr. T.J. Walsh’s article on the Cork Capuchins: ‘It reaches a high level, and will read well. You know he is preparing it for the Capuchin Annual, with illustrations’.

Letters to Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from James Coleman FRSAI, 2 Rosehill Terrace, Queenstown, County Cork, concerning information on the predecessor to the Old Capuchin chapel on Blackamoor Lane, Cork. Coleman also expresses his satisfaction to find ‘a member of the Capuchin Order really interested in its history … [as] a large number of the Order now in Cork and Rochestown show nothing in the way of literary production any more than the secular priests who to my mind were never more illiterate than they are now’. With manuscript and typescript copies of the Coleman’s letters compiled by Fr. Angelus and a newspaper clipping of Coleman’s letter to the 'Cork Examiner' (19 Apr. 1924), referring to the chapel on Blackamoor Lane which was in use from 1771-1850.

Letter to Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (1898-1945), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, regarding a claim for a reduction of rent from Brabants Ltd. who hold property from the Capuchin friars on Queen Street, and to the rents due from the Electrification Radio Company.

Letters to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, regarding a quotation for the installation of speakers, microphones and loud speaker equipment at Holy Trinity Church, Cork. With a sketch plan of the Church indicating the positions of the said speaker equipment.

Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from J. Isaac & Sons, organ builders, Elm Park, Blackpool, Cork; Lawrence Isaac, 20 Forster Street, Galway; Evans & Barr Ltd., Coolbeg Street, Belfast, and others regarding quotations, specifications and costs for the installation of an organ at Holy Trinity Church. With invoices and receipts for payment of shipping costs and work on the new organ.

Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from Timothy B. Walsh, St. Patrick’s, Waterford, regarding the distribution of devotional material for Our Lady of Fátima.