Letter from John Gore to Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. referring to a plan to purchase The Hermitage in Rathfarnham, Dublin, for the National University of Ireland. He encloses a copy letter from James H. North affirming that William Woodbyrne will accept £6,000 as a purchase price for the house.
Copy statement furnished by Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister, regarding the expenses incurred in the building and maintenance of the Sacred Heart Chapel which was built in 1908. The statement notes that the original estimate for the Chapel was £3,400. The statement provides details in respect of the installation and maintenance of heating, lightning, architect’s fees, and the cleaning and re-erecting of shrine altars.
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 from A. J. Howlin, prisoner no. 899, Wakefield, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Church St., Dublin, asking to convey his thanks to Fr. Peter [Bowe] ‘for his interest in us all the time. He was greatly knocked about on our account’. Signed Seamus Ua Hualláin. With cover opened by censor.
Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, ‘the sub-lessors’, to John Morgan, North King Street, ‘the sub-lessee’, of the houses known as nos. 56 Brown Street and nos. 43 and 44 Bow Street, for 134 years at the yearly rent of £10 and in consideration of the sum of £212 12s 0d. The deed contains an annexed sketch map depicting the demised premises. Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch.
Assignment from Theodore Frederick Carroll, 80 South Mall, to Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Fr. Bernard Joseph Jennings OSFC and Fr. Peter Edward Bowe OSFC, Charlotte Quay, of the residue of a lease dated 18 Mar. 1762 from Charles Dunbar to James Morrison, William Fritton and Ebenezer Morrison referring to a portion of the ‘marsh called Island Nagay adjoining the Corporation Marsh in the south suburbs of the city of Cork’. In consideration of £1,100. See CA HT/2/1/2/1.
