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A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D2’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Tomás Ó Riain, Adolf Morath (photographer), John English & Co. (printers), Fr. J. McShane (Parochial House, St. Oran’s Road, Buncrana, County Donegal), H. Martin Hamilton, Mary Wren, (Servite House, 17 The Boltons, London), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Seumas MacManus, Fr. Celsus O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Hugh Morley OFM Cap. (editor, ‘The Cowl / A Capuchin Review’), Clare Sheridan (sculptor), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Otto Richter, Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap., Doran Hurley, Nuala Ní Riain, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Eilish M. Sharkey, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Hugh P. Allen (Catholic Truth Society of Ireland), Joceyln Harcourt, Fr. Tom Ryan (Vatican Secretariat of State), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap, Fr. W.B. Ryan OP, Elizabeth Corr, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Maud Gonne MacBride (enclosing letters from Vincent Crompton, an Irish republican), Patrick John Little, Michael McLaverty, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, and Canon Patrick Rogers. Enclosures include minutes a meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (6 Dec. 1950) and printed lists and other documentation re the Chester Beatty collection in the Gallery; Manuscript notes re the cartoonist (probably Charles E. Kelly) of the ‘Dublin Opinion’ and his denial that his work constitutes an ‘active participation in politics’.

Photographic album (titled ‘The Cambrian Album’) containing black and white prints of the early Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Some of the prints were later annotated by Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap. The album includes:
• Two views of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone.
• Postcard print of the consecration of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic, 25 Nov. 1936.
• Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. with local Christians. (Fr. Agathangelus was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49).
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. at Mulobezi. (Fr. Timothy was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1935-9, Fr. Fintan from 1933-9, and Fr. Christopher from 1933-44).
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. outside a tent; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. on the banks of the Zambezi River; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the banks of the Zambezi; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on horseback.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. inspecting a van with rifles perched against wheel; A view of a barge crossing a river in Northern Rhodesia.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. with a fishing rod.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. hunting wild game in Northern Rhodesia (including leopards and zebras).
• Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. with a large group of worshippers outside St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49.
• Livingstone Church and adjoining school; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the banks of a river; a view of Victoria Falls.
• Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the veranda of Livingstone Friary; local Christians with a religious sister at a pageant.
• The installation of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic (25 Nov. 1936). The photograph includes: Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and the Most Rev. Aston Chichester SJ, Archbishop of Salisbury, Rhodesia.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. at Sawmills School.
• Photographs of early missionary churches and buildings.

Photographic album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. The album contains un-captioned black and white photographic prints. Fr. Jarlath was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49. The collection includes some views of local worshipers and parishioners (in Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa). Includes prints of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister from 1931-7) with Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and others, a group of young friars at St. Bonaventure’s Friary, the voyage of the Union Castle Line ship, RMMV 'Cape Town Castle', in December 1947.