Newspaper cuttings, a Booklet from a Ceremonial for the temporary Profession of The Sisters of The Medical Missionaries of Mary, a handwritten and a tipped version of the Agreement between M.M.M. and the Priory of Glenstal
Letters sent to and by Mother Mary Martin. Cover letter in 1974 states: "Documentation on foundation of Medical Missionaries of Mary in Glenstal. Entrusted to Fr. Mart T. for eventual photostating for Mother Jude. Fr. Bernard. These papers are not in chronological order"
Letters from solicitors T F O'Connell, Rooney & Company regarding a trust deed of new trustees, and work to be done identifying people involved in the holding of land in different legal documents.
One of the letters has a list of leases, detailing the names of lessors and lessee, as well as the dates of the leases. The names are Burroughes [Burrowes]; Fitzmaurice; Pilsworth; Father Malachy O'Callaghan CM; Doyle; Malone; and Byrne.
Letters from solicitors T F O'Connell, Rooney & Company regarding finalised trust deed of new trustees and the fact that the counterparts of certain deeds are still missing.
Letters from William Partridge to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. giving an outline of his career mostly in the labour and union movement under James Larkin. Partridge was among those rebels who surrendered at St Stephen’s Green in 1916. He was subsequently sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude and sent to Dartmoor and afterwards to Lewes Prison. He was released due to ill-health and returned to Ballaghadreen in County Mayo, but died on 26 July 1917. He refers to his physical condition in some of the correspondence. He writes ‘Please excuse scribbling as my sight got bad in prison and I have not yet got glasses’. With his memorial card and a newspaper cutting of his obituary notice. The file also includes a letter (probably from his brother, Felix Partridge) referring to his last days and thanking Fr. Albert for his words of sympathy.
Letters from Constance Markievicz, Holloway Jail, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., Church St., Dublin, referring to her conditions of imprisonment and conveying her good wishes to Fr. Albert, Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., and Sister Brigid. She declares that ‘when we free our country I shall start a movement for the reformation of jails and jailors! I am proud of being selected as a candidate. I wonder whether I should have a better chance of election in or out of jail?’ With 2 covers.
Letters from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., referring to journey to the United States, from New York to Santa Barbara, California, his declining health and to the consolation he has found as his death approaches. On 25 Jan. 1925 Fr. Albert wrote: ‘I am gradually getting weaker and am preparing for end. … Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. came here last night and will remain with me to the end. Tis a great comfort and joy to have him. He will do for me what he did for Terry McSweeney in Brixton Jail’. With a newspaper cutting from the Santa Barbara Daily News (21 Jan. 1925) containing an article with (photographic prints) of the Old Mission of Santa Ynez and ‘Padre Albert’.
