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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 W.V. Nagle, National Bank, 34 College Green, Dublin, to Fr. Augustine Hayden OSFC, guardian, Church Street Friary, referring to the ‘American draft’ of £59 5s 6d and enclosing copies of two accounts of the Capuchins with the aforementioned Bank.

Letter from the Most Reverend Henry Henry, Bishop of Down and Connor, to [Fr. Mark McDonnell OSFC], referring to a request made by one of his Belfast priests to establish a Boys’ Brigade similar to the one founded on Church Street. Archbishop Henry asks for a copy of the rules and inquires whether ‘the results produced would justify the expenditure of time and trouble and I suppose funds’.

Letter from the Most Rev. Peter Emmanuel Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, to Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., expressing his delight on seeing him after all his recent suffering. He also grants him full diocesan faculties for his stay in the diocese.

Letter from the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the renewal of diocesan faculties for the Capuchin fathers in Kilkenny. Reference is also made to public mass times at the Church of St. Francis.

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’.

Letter from the Irish National Assurance Company Ltd., 92 South Mall, Cork, to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, concerning an insurance policy for the heating installation at Holy Trinity Church.

Letter to [Seumas Mac Manus?] from the Irish Gaelic Society, 154 East 54th Street, New York, re a meeting at Celtic Park in New York.

Letter from the Hibernian Fire and General Insurance Company, 49 Dame Street, to Fr. Laurence Dowling OSFC, guardian, Church Street, regarding fire insurance of £18,625 to cover the buildings and contents of the Friary and Church. Reference is also made to the lack of insurance for the Sacred Heart Chapel.