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Letters from [Madge Auld?], St. Andrew’s, Queen’s Crescent, Southsea, Hampshire, to Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC (1820-1887), referring to a sum of £300 left in trust with Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC ‘to build a chapel [in Kilkenny] where the Third Order Sisters would meet and masses be said for me and mine’. An annotation notes that these letters were from the ‘late Mrs Sullivan of Lacken, Kilkenny’.

A file of letters to Fr. Richard Henebry. The file includes personal letters while some of the correspondence contains references to the activities of the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge) and to Ring College (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. The correspondents include W.A. Leyden (Conradh na Gaeilge, 8 Loretto Terrace, Belfast), Thomas McGrath (Ballinaclash, Clashmore, County Waterford), Maurice Davin (Deerpark, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary), F.M. Gallagher (The Mullins, Donegal Town), Richard O’Brien (3 Church Street, Tipperary Town), Joseph O’Neill (Shantalla, Galway), Robert Hilliard (Fern Ville, Lismore, County Waterford), Diarmuid (Jeremiah) Fawsitt (South Mall, Cork), Christopher Tuite (12 Temple Street, Dublin), William Keyes McDonnell (Bandon, County Cork), Éamonn O’Neill (Kinsale, County Cork), George Unthank Macnamara (Bankyle, Corofin, County Clare), W.B. Morris (37 Lady Lane, Waterford), W.H. Howard (South Street, New Ross, County Wexford), John C. Mulvihill (38 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio), Alice Stopford Green (36 Grosvenor Road, Westminster), Liam Ó Míodhacháin (Conradh na Gaelige, Dungarvan, County Waterford), Domhnall Ó Fearachair (Dan Fraher), (Dungarvan, County Waterford), D. Dwane (Kilmallock, County Limerick), Aloysius MacMahon (1 Grace Park Gardens, Drumcondra, Dublin), Julie M. Murphy (Banard, Ballymacarberry, County Waterford), Brother Thomas Kane (Principal, De La Salle Training College, Waterford), T.F. O’Higgins (Conradh na Gaelige, Dungarvan, County Waterford), Fr. Patrick MacSwiney, Sir Bertram Windle, Sister M. Aloysius (Presentation Convent, Waterford), Sir Alan Henry Bellingham (Castlebellingham, County Louth), H. Parlin (Catholic Church, Tredegar, Monmouthshire), Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Vicar A. Suppiger (Berne, Switzerland), B. O’Donovan (President, Gaelic League, Philadelphia), William Joseph Adderley (Muirghéis Opera Committee, Dublin), Mac Giolla Bhríde (William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne). Canon William Walsh (President, St. John’s College, Waterford), R.E. Sheehan (Port Said, Egypt), Fr. Morrissey (49 Beresford Street, Waterford), Michael Beary (Bridge Cottage, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, County Waterford), Christopher J. Dunn (Watercourse, Cork), John Millar (2 The Glen, Limestone Road, Belfast), Séamus Ó Cathasaigh (Conradh na Gaeilge, Dublin), M.S. [Mac Gabhann?] (Manulla, Castlebar, County Mayo), P. Power (Dungarvan, County Waterford), and Mrs Martin (Woodview, Portlaw, County Waterford), Padraig Ó Catháin (Conradh na Gaeilge, Mitchelstown, County Cork), Myles Quinlan (Cullen, County Tipperary), P.W. Kenny (Kingsmeadow House, Waterford), J.H. Nelson (Manager, The Munster & Leinster Bank Limited, Cork), and Ellen McGrath (Clogheen, County Tipperary). Includes a copy letter from Fr. Richard Henebry (National President of the Gaelic League in America) to a Mr Wilson (5 Dec. 1910).

Letters to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. relating to his research on the life and temperance campaign of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. Most of the letters refer to sources tracing Fr. Mathew’s ancestry. The correspondents include:
• Fr. E. Dowling, Cathabawn, Johnstown, County Kilkenny. Re Theobald Mathew’s early education in the Kilkenny Academy from 1803-7.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. Re a list of Fr. Mathew’s siblings.
• David Mathew. Re the ancestry and genealogy of Fr. Mathew.
• Rev. Wallace Clare. Re the genealogy of Fr. Mathew.
• Fr. Gervase Mathew OP, Blackfriars, Oxford. Re Fr. Mathew’s genealogy and the disposition of the Mathew family papers in their possession.
• Br. De Sales. Enclosing extracts relating to Fr. Mathew from the diary of W.J. O’Neill Daunt (1807-1894).
• Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. Enclosing brief extracts from the General Capuchin Archives in Rome re Fr. Mathew.
• Fr. T.J. Walsh, South Presbytery Cork. Enclosing a note from Jack J. O’Shea re the poems of John Paul Dalton (a Cork-born poet) titled ‘The Centenary of Father Mathew’ and ‘A Legend of Father Mathew’.

Letters to Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. mostly seeking research assistance on the life of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The file includes letters from Edmond J. O’Neill, Anthony Lorraine, Fr. Ignatius McCormick OFM Cap., Dr. Kevin O’Brien, Colm Kerrigan, Robert Thompson, Donal O’Cahill, Fr. Benignus-Jan Sosnowski OFM Cap., Michael Foy, John Comerford, John F. Quinn, Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., and Fr. Gregorio Smutko OFM Cap.

Letters to Fr. Maurice O’Dowd OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Cork, from Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia, asking him to convey his thanks to the Father Mathew Players in Cork for putting on a pantomime in aid of the Capuchin missions in Africa. Fr. Killian writes: ‘You have helped supply us with the funds that put up stations, churches and schools and their furnishing. So your loyal assistance in the missions of Barotseland by solid buildings which will yet be the centres of a Catholic country’.

Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap. (1893-1977), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, regarding liability for property tax and deductions of income tax from ground rents payable by the Capuchin friars to the Dominican Order (Charlotte Quay) and to a Mrs Gardiner. With a letter from Robert McClement, auditor, enclosing a schedule of the ground rents paid by the Capuchins.

Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from Timothy B. Walsh, St. Patrick’s, Waterford, regarding the distribution of devotional material for Our Lady of Fátima.

Letters to Fr. Justin Hyland OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, from J. Isaac & Sons, organ builders, Elm Park, Blackpool, Cork; Lawrence Isaac, 20 Forster Street, Galway; Evans & Barr Ltd., Coolbeg Street, Belfast, and others regarding quotations, specifications and costs for the installation of an organ at Holy Trinity Church. With invoices and receipts for payment of shipping costs and work on the new organ.

Letters to Fr. Flannan Downing OFM Cap., guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, regarding a quotation for the installation of speakers, microphones and loud speaker equipment at Holy Trinity Church, Cork. With a sketch plan of the Church indicating the positions of the said speaker equipment.

Letter to Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (1898-1945), guardian, Holy Trinity Friary, from J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, 27 Marlboro Street, regarding a claim for a reduction of rent from Brabants Ltd. who hold property from the Capuchin friars on Queen Street, and to the rents due from the Electrification Radio Company.