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Letter to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, enclosing a synopsis of title deeds for properties in the possession of the Capuchin friars.

Letter to Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap. (1890-1969), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from Michael Murphy, solicitor, 53 South Mall, Cork, regarding the rent payable on premises on ‘Island Nagay’. Murphy explains that this ‘is a corruption of an old Irish name with which lawyers are familiar in the old deeds they meet, and which I have always found to mean the levelled ground between the two branches of the river, and always close to the south channel, and referring to the area between Parnell Bridge and Parliament Bridge’.

Letter to Fr. Dermot Reilly OFM Cap., guardian, from Edward J. Twomey, Cork Corporation Accountant, affirming that there will be no change in the valuation of 8-10 Father Mathew Quay.

Letter to Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a copy of the proposed renovation work on the sacristy of Holy Trinity Church. The work is to be completed by J. Cahill, engineer, at a cost of £7,489.

Letter of contract by John Delany to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC, guardian, undertaking to complete works as specified by Robert Walker (c.1835-1910), architect, in respect of the construction of the new confraternity room and vestry at Holy Trinity Friary, for the sum of £743.

Letter signed by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, guardian, consenting to the ‘erection of one bracket to the chimney of our [Friary] building between Charlotte Quay and South Mall’.

Letter from W.P. Fitzgerald, Mitchelstown, County Cork, to Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap., guardian, regarding adjustments to the figures supplied by an agent relating to insurance policies taken out by the Cork Capuchins.

Letter from F.W. McCarthy, Town Clerk, Cork Corporation, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC regarding the attendance of the municipal authorities at the laying of the foundation stone of the ‘Father Bernard Memorial’.

Letter from the Most Rev. John Healy (1841-1918), Archbishop of Tuam, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC, thanking the community of Holy Trinity for a gift sent to him on the occasion of his recent jubilee.

Letter from the Most Rev. Charles Joseph O’Reilly (1860-1923), Bishop of Baker City, Oregon, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and the Holy Trinity community, referring to his recent visit to Cork, and to the impending arrival of the Irish Capuchins in his diocese. O’Reilly wrote: ‘I have heralded your coming, and all are eagerly expecting you. I will give you the choice of several places which promise well, and you will have missions throughout the state to enable you to get the means to purchase property and build’.