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Letters from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the sale of a yard adjacent to the Friary for £100.

Letter from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church Street, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the mission list and querying an item in the accounts furnished from Capuchin General Curia in Rome.

Letters from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, to Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap. and other guardians of the Kilkenny community, mainly re notices of the deaths of friars (or their relations), the professions of novices, the appointment of confessors in the Diocese of Ossory, and requests for contributions from the Kilkenny community to the Provincial Accounts.

Conveyance from George Chapman, Kilkenny City, smith, to Richard Empson, Kilkenny City, merchant, of a lease of a house on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, ‘commonly called and known by the name of the Munster Arms’, for three lives (renewable forever) at the yearly rent of £14 10s, and in consideration of £140. A recital of an earlier lease (dated 8 Apr. 1769) by William Colles to George Chapman of the said house for three lives at the yearly rent of £14 10s is given. The reverse of the lease is endorsed with a rental of the said premises (Head rent: £35 3s 10½d; Profit rent: £20 13s 10½d). With a manuscript copy of the said conveyance.

Renewal of a lease from Abraham Colles, doctor of physic, Dublin, Richard Colles, Riverview, Kilkenny, Rev. Thomas Ottewell Moore, Leskinferne, County Wexford and his wife Rachel Moore (née Colles), to Joseph Empson, boot and shoemaker, Kilkenny city, of the premises known as the ‘Munster Arms’ on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, in consideration of one peppercorn in fines payable for the renewal of lives in the original lease. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/1).

Copy assignment from Margaret Empson, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, widow of Joseph Empson, and her children named as Richard Empson, apothecary, Joseph Empson, shopkeeper, John Empson, civil engineer, Montreal, British America, Eliza Jones (née Empson), wife of Robert Patten Jones, Palmerston House, County Kilkenny, Anne Empson, Rathgar Road, Dublin, and Ruth Empson, spinster, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, to Arthur Joshua Boyd, solicitor, The Parade, Kilkenny city, of the freehold properties held by the late Joseph Empson in trust for the children of Margaret Empson aforesaid. With copy schedule of the properties to which the foregoing deed refers. Number eight in the schedule refers to the house and concerns on Walkin Street held under a lease of lives renewable forever dated 25 May 1835. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/4).

Appeal to Third Order members in Kilkenny to support the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of St. Joseph’s Convent, Busoga, British East Africa, who require a larger hospital building for the care of lepers.

Letter, invitations, notes re agenda and itinerary for the Third Order Regional Congress (Franciscan Tertiary Congress) held in Kilkenny in October 1939. Correspondents include Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap. and Fr. Leo Rowlands OFM Cap. (British Capuchin Province). It was noted that Aodh De Blácam (1890-1951), the well-known journalist and author, was one of scheduled speakers. With a photographic print of congress participants in Kilkenny on 15 Oct. 1939 ('Irish Press').

Letters from Fr. Canice Bourke OFM Cap., Commissary Provincial of the Third Order, to Fr. Terence Anglin OFM Cap., regarding returns for the fraternities in Kilkenny. Fr. Canice also affirms that every ‘priest in the Province has the power to receive persons into the Third Order and to profess them (7 Dec. 1940). See also CA KK/1/3/15.

Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, regarding the granting of faculties to act as extraordinary confessor to the Sisters of St. John of God.