Letter to Fr. Eustace McSweeney OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a copy of the proposed renovation work on the sacristy of Holy Trinity Church. The work is to be completed by J. Cahill, engineer, at a cost of £7,489.
A letter from Combridge Limited, fine art dealers, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. re Paul Henry’s willingness to accept 40 guineas for his painting ‘The Dance’. (Volume page 88).
Letter to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., guardian, from John D. Fitzgerald, solicitor, 35 Parliament Street, Kilkenny, regarding legal proceedings for the removal of an iron shed on premises (Drea’s Yard) leased by the Capuchins on Pennyfeather Lane.
Letter from Bertie Ahern, TD, Minister for Finance, to Br. Kevin Crowley OFM Cap., enclosing a response from the Arts Council regarding a request for financial assistance with the costs of running the Feis Maitiú. With manuscript notes regarding the aforementioned request.
Letter from Vincent Boulle, Linda Road, Claremont, Cape Province, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, re the establishment of a Third Order Sodality in the Cape Province, South Africa. Reference is made to receptions into the Third Order made by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979) and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
Letter from an anonymous correspondent to the guardian, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, on the need to for the re-organisation of the temperance movement in Kilkenny. The correspondent refers to a newspaper article written by him in 1904 (clipping enclosed) in which he calls for the establishment by the Capuchins of a Boys Brigade club in the city.
Letter from M.J. Maxwell, The Parade, Kilkenny, regarding the foundation and history of the Alms House on Walkin Street. With later manuscript and typescript copies.
A letter from N. O’Connor to the editor of the ‘Evening Herald’ refuting the assertion that his late brother (General Rory O’Connor) ‘left all his money to the Minister [Kevin O’Higgins] responsible for his death’.
Letter to Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, guardian, referring to the recent National Temperance Congress. The letter affirms that the ‘most efficient way of reaping the fruits of the Congress is by the formation in this city without further delay … of a branch of the “Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association” similar to those established in in the other centres throughout Ireland …’. The letter is signed by Robert Branigan, Thomas Cantwell JP, Thomas Hayden and William J. Cleere. The letter encloses a list of 107 names (with address) in support of the foundation of the aforementioned branch.
An anonymous letter to Fr. Pacificus Jennings OFM Cap., guardian, complaining about the presence of the Derry Peace Women group at Ard Mhuire Friary. The letter reads: ‘It would fit them better to remain at home and do some house-work … and make peace with some of their relations and neighbours’.