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Listing of archival records and publications held in the Zambian Capuchin Archives in Mongu, Western Province, Zambia. The catalogue was compiled by Fr. Owen O’Sullivan OFM Cap. The listing includes references to Provincial Bulletins, mission pages from 'The Father Mathew Record', Zambian Chapter Reports, Mass registers, statistics and personnel lists, financial records and accounts, school and hospital records, correspondence, photographic albums and mission slides. With a listing of Irish Capuchin material in the National Zambian Archives. The files relate to hospitals, dispensaries and schools established by the Capuchins in the mission districts.

Letter from Fr. Kevin OSF to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking support for the building of the first local Franciscan Sisters’ convent at the Nsambya Mission in Kampala, Uganda. The appeal reads: ‘There is a great field of work to be done there, and we need the help of these native Sisters at all the missions so badly’.

Letter from Fr. Virgilio de Valstagna OFM Cap., General Minister, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the establishment of the Prefecture Apostolic of Broken Hill in the Irish Capuchin mission territory in Northern Rhodesia.

Letter from Bishop Francis Costantin Mazzieri OFM Conv., Ndola, Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Northern Rhodesia, to Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking an assistant for Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., education secretary for the Vicariates of Northern Rhodesia.

'Kuomboka / a living traditional culture among the Malozi people of Zambia by Likando Kalaluka' (Ndola: National Educational Company of Zambia, 1979).

A study on Northern Rhodesia compiled by Rev. E. Hoch. The text focuses on the northern part of the country inhabited by the Babemba and other tribes. The notes are largely based on 'Rhodesia and Nyasaland' by W.V. Brelsford and 'A study of the Babemba and neighbouring tribes' by Fr. Etienne OBE. The text includes a ‘tribal map of Northern Rhodesia’ attached to the back cover.