Postcard to Frank Fahy, ‘Q.2/34 / Irish prisoner of war, Lewes Prison’. The card is signed ‘Ui Dálaigh’. It appears that Fahy’s correspondent was a prisoner himself. The image-side has a portrait print of Edward Daly, the executed 1916 Rising leader. A manuscript annotation underneath the portrait reads ‘Patrick’s Day / 1917 / Q.121’. The card reads ‘Dear Frank / Just a reminder that our thoughts are with you this Patrick’s Day and every day until the sun shines for us all again’.
Letter from the Governor of Reading Jail to Anna Fahy, 17 Norfolk Road, Phibsborough, Dublin, acknowledging the receipt of £1 which has been placed to the credit of her husband, Frank Fahy.
Letter to Frank Fahy (Proinsias Ó Fathaigh), Ceann Comhairle, Dáil Éireann, from an individual at ‘c/o Mr. Patrick Burtage, Main Street’ and Kilmalogue, Portarlington, County Laois.
Letter from Fr. Patrick Lavelle, Cong, County Mayo, to P.J. Leonard referring to support for the French military ‘in this hour of bitter trial and overwhelming disaster’. A note attached to the letter reads ‘Father Lavelle / Cong / 11 Jan. 71 / French / introducing Kelly to Bishop Dupanloup [of] Orleans / Kelly wishes to join the army’. The note is endorsed ‘7196’.
Expenses account of James Joseph O’Kelly. An accompanying note is endorsed ‘account for arms / £206 / expenses to Dublin’. Both the note and the one-page expenses account are endorsed ‘EE 7205’. The expenses relate to O’Kelly’s travel from France to Dublin.
Letter from Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’), Conradh na Gaeilge, Cork, referring to his Irish translation of Daniel Dafoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’. His translation (‘Eachtra Robinson Crúsó’) was published by Conradh na Gaeilge in 1909.
Letter from Fr. Laurence Dowling OFM Cap., Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to arrangements for the serial publication of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin”’ by Tadhg Ó Murchadha in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. Fr. Laurence added ‘Since I finished above, I have had a chat with a keen Irish student – Frank Ryan who is studying in Dublin for his degree in “Celtic Studies”. He is delighted you are commencing your work in Record for March. He also has promised to do something next month (February). He thinks a vocabulary would not be necessary – however just do as you think best’. Fr. Laurence also refers to Ryan’s contention that ‘all lovers of Irish will be looking forward to Seandún’s recollections’.
Copy letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha referring to Br. Senan Moynihan’s assertion that he (Ó Murchadha) had supplied the manuscript copy of part two of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” to the friar.
