Letter from ‘Richard Rowley’ (Richard Valentine Williams) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., offering his opinion on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). Rowley claims he is neither ‘a politician or a partisan’. He adds ‘It seems to me that one solution has never been attempted, and that is the power of love. No nation can be built up on mutual hate and suspicion between different parties and creeds’.
A letter from Archbishop Bernard Mary Williams, Stroud, Gloucestershire, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. conveying his impressions of the ‘Orange Terror’ offprint published by the ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office. Williams writes ‘I do not think the book will interest many people here simply because ordinary people are just not interested in the subject with which it deals’.
A letter from George Gavan Duffy to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the ‘splendid’ edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He also refers to the ‘interesting’ Jules Verne story.
A clipping of a review article on the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint from ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The review was published in the ‘Irish Ecclesiastical Review’ (November 1943).
A letter from Edward Thomas (‘E.T.’) Keane, editor of the ‘Kilkenny People’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint. Keane states that ‘certain features of what you call Orange Terror are duplicated in the twenty-six counties’. He notes that ‘we probably have more internees, men and women, in the twenty-six counties … Our “Republican” government can do what they like and sit on criticism’.
A clipping of a review article on the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint from ‘The Capuchin Annual’ published in ‘Labour Progress’ (November 1943). The article names the author of ‘Orange Terror’ as J.J. Campbell (‘Ultach’) and is critical of some of his statements, referencing ‘his gross political ignorance’.
A letter from Fr. Louis A. Gales Catechetical Guild, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enquiring about securing American reproduction rights for Richard King’s Rosary series in ‘The Capuchin Annual’.
Copy letter from Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. to Fr. Louis A. Gales agreeing to his proposal re American reproduction rights for Richard King’s Mysteries of the Rosaries published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Moynihan provides technical details re the originals and the technical requirements for any reproductions.
Letter from R.R. Figgis, Farm Lodge, Ballybrack, County Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He praises ‘Con Curran’s article on the exhibition’ which he states is excellent.
