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Telegram from Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. regarding the death of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. in St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. The text reads 'Albert with martyrs of the Gael / peaceful happy death / Dominic'.

A report providing a demographic and financial status update for the Church of Our Lady of Angels in Hermiston, Oregon. The text outlines the local parish structure, noting the main consecrated church in Hermiston, mission stations in Umatilla, Stanfield, and Echo, and an upcoming chapel build in Pilot Rock. Demographically, the report registers 199 active Catholic inhabitants alongside 312 ‘fallen away’ Catholics who married outside the Church or were divorced. Financially, it notes an average monthly income of $80.00, a bank balance of $858.79, and a $154.00 debt owed to the Pilot Rock Building Fund. The document records the local Capuchin community as Father Dominic, Father Seraphin O’Reilly, and Tertiary Brother Anthony Murray.

‘Report of Triennate 1928-1931’ for the St. Francis Hospice in Bend, Oregon, compiled by Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., superior. It details extensive renovations, structural expansions, and religious additions totalling thousands of dollars, including church decorations, flooring, chapel roofing, a new baptistry, and altered dwelling quarters to establish a Canonical Enclosure. The report also tracks the addition of side altars ($1,840.75), specialized sanctuary installations, and several donated items like a Lourdes shrine and electric altar chimes, noting that property holdings valued over $7,500.00 are held under the Franciscan Capuchin Order (Diocese of Baker City). It concludes with a local economic assessment from December 1930, stating that a parish school remains impossible because parents cannot afford to send children, school upkeep is too high, and public tax inquiries predict Bend has ‘passed its zenith’ with local lumber mills expected to last fewer than 15 years.

Letter from the Most Rev. Daniel Cohalan, Bishop of Cork, to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, referring to the withdrawal of Fr. Dominic’s faculties due to his inability to take the examination for renewal of faculties. Bishop Cohalan also refers to his unease on reading an announcement in the papers that Fr. Dominic is to be appointed honorary chaplain to a brigade of the IRA. The Bishop wrote: ‘Now I put it to you that a lay body has no authority to confer an ecclesiastical honour from a lay authority’. He later asks Fr. Edwin: ‘Are you not conceding to a military brigade what belongs essentially to the church?’ With a copy reply from Fr. Edwin claiming that he knew nothing of Fr. Dominic's appointment as chaplain to the IRA until his attention was drawn to a report in the Cork newspapers.

Letter from Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. referring to a property tax matter concerning the old parish house site in Hermiston, Oregon. The county sold the property for taxes, and the city subsequently purchased it. The city’s mayor, who is Catholic, requested that the Capuchin Order issue a ‘quit-claim deed’ so the county can remit the taxes back to the city, which is utilizing the site for federal relief and ‘ABCD schemes’. Father Dominic notes that the property itself is otherwise worthless and requests swift approval to authorize Father Luke Sheehan (the Corporation Sole) to execute the deed before the County Court issues its final tax-remission decision in five or six weeks.

A copy of Fr. Dominic O’Connor, ‘A Brief History of the Diocese of Baker City’ (Baker: Diocesan Chancery, 1930). This copy is signed by Father Dominic with a dedication to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Irish Capuchin Provincial Minister. The book features an introductory preface written by Fr. Edward J. Kelly. In the foreword, Father Dominic explains that Bishop Joseph McGrath commissioned him in July 1928 to write the history of the Diocese of Baker City for its silver jubilee. Although delayed by his appointment as pastor of the Cathedral Parish, O’Connor produced this definitive history of the regional diocese, focusing on the years from 1903 to 1928.