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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 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 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 to Fr. Joseph Fenlon OSFC, guardian, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, enclosing a bill of costs for completing and registering a deed of conveyance of all the property at Father Mathew Quay and at Rochestown to Fathers Fiacre Brophy OSFC, Jarlath Hynes OSFC and Augustine Hayden OSFC as trustees. The total costs amounted to £28 6s 0d.

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 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. 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. Edward Walsh OFM Cap., guardian, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, Cork, enclosing a memorandum from the Labour Exchange regarding the claims of Christopher Cotter for unemployment insurance following his period of work as a domestic at Holy Trinity Church.

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 J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, from Kennedy & Kyle regarding proof of debt on the O’Connell property in Cork.