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Typescript copy of last letter of Capt. Seán Mac Aodha [Seán Heuston] to his sister, ‘an Irish nun’.

Correspondence between Thomas W. Bewley, secretary, W. & R. Jacob & Co. Ltd., and Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. regarding a cheque for £25 given by the directors of Jacobs to the Capuchins as a mark of appreciation ‘for the deep sense of thankfulness that our Factory was spared from serious injury during the time of the recent rebellion’. Includes a copy reply from Fr. Aloysius returning the said cheque. He writes ‘Any services that I may have rendered during the recent sad crisis were such as … any other priest in the same circumstances would render’. Fr. Aloysius suggests that the cheque should more fittingly be sent to the Lord Mayor’s Fund for the Relief of Distress.

Photographic postcard print of the study hall of St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, founded by Patrick Pearse.

Letter from Brian Ó hUigínn [Brian O’Higgins], Birmingham Prison, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Ca., sending on his best wishes. In Irish.

Declaration of Muriel MacDonagh’s (wife of Thomas MacDonagh) reception into the Catholic Church. It reads: ‘I Fr. Aloysius OSFC declare that … I have this eighteenth day of April 1917 received into the Catholic Church Mrs. Muriel MacDonagh observing the prescribed rites and ceremonies’. The document is signed by Muriel Mary MacDonagh.

She expresses her regret on hearing of Fr. Aloysius’s recent illness. She wrote: ‘When I asked for you to go and see [her son] Don I had no notion that you were ill …’. She added ‘Please thank Fr. Albert from me and his promise to go and see Don, also for the copy of the Catholic Bulletin which I am delighted to have’. With photographic postcard print of ‘Donagh and Barbara MacDonagh children of Thomas MacDonagh, shot at Kilmainham, May 3rd 1916’.

Letter from George Noble Plunkett, 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., asking him to attend ‘an Assembly to make Ireland’s claim for liberty before the Peace Conference’.

Receipt for ‘articles’ received by the 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade. Signed: O[fficer] C[ommanding]. Initialed ‘b.T’.

A blank postcard print showing the funeral procession of Michael Collins in Dublin on 28 August 1922. The printed caption reads 'Funeral of the late General Michael Collins / Passing Government Buildings'. The card was printed by Hely's, Acme Works, Dublin.

Letter from Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, seeking priests to act as chaplains in the British armed forces for the duration of the war.