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A volume titled ‘Blocks / Father Mathew Record / The Capuchin Annual / subjects: Capuchins / Saints / Beati / Friars / Friaries / Houses / Colleges’. The volume contains printed copies of block pulls for photographs and illustrations published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The volume includes the following copy prints:
• Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. and Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.
• The garden of the Capuchin Friary, Church Street, Dublin.
• Certificate of reception of Cardinal Joseph McRory, Archbishop of Armagh, into the Third Order of St. Francis. 11 Mar. 1928.
• The Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork.
• Irish Capuchin houses in France in the eighteenth century.
• Engraving of Father Mathew Hall, Church Street, Dublin.
• Students in Rochestown College, County Cork.
• Drawings by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.
• General Chapter of the Capuchin Order in Rome, 1926.
• Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia OSFC (1809-1889).
• A group of Irish Capuchin students in Rome.
• Cartoons by Tom Lalor.
• The exterior of the old Capuchin Chapel on Church Street (c.1861).
• The Most Rev. Thomas-Louis Connolly OSFC (1814-1876), Archbishop of Halifax.
• Views of Dublin life, a collection of drawings by Seán MacManus.
• Fr. Sebastian O’Brien OFM Cap. (1867-1931).
• A view of Church Street looking northwards towards North King Street.
• Mary Redmond (1863-1930), sculptor.
• Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954).
• Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. (1883-1935) in the United States.
• Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965).
• Depictions of St. Francis and various Capuchin Franciscan Saints.
• Capuchin Franciscan bishops.

Letters of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979). The correspondents include Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary; Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister; Fr. Conrad O’Donovan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister., and Fr. Clement Neubauer OFM Cap., General Minister. The subjects include: the progress of the Irish Capuchin mission in Barotseland and Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia; the Silozi catechism; the Loanja station; requests for financial assistance and loans for the Northern Rhodesian mission; missionary activities in Cape Town, South Africa; the recognition of five parishes in the Cape as coming under Irish Capuchin jurisdiction (1946); the Katima Mulilo mission station in the Caprivi Strip (1949); Fr. Phelim’s appointment as Regular Superior of the Victoria Falls Mission; the completion of the church at Langa (1949); the deaths of Fr. Eustace Burke OFM Cap. and Fr. Donatus Aherne OFM Cap. (1949); Educational matters in the missionary territories; the appointment of Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Education Secretary General (1949); the need for more missionary sisters (Holy Faith Sisters, Sisters of Mercy, the Irish Sisters of Charity and the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Africa); the opening of the church at the Holy Family Mission, Katima Mulilo. (Mar. 1954); the building of a new convent and girls’ boarding school at Maramba. (July 1953); his proposal to resign as Bishop of Livingstone ‘in line with the gradual Zambianization of the Hierarchy’. (10 Aug. 1969). Reference is also made to the activities of the following Capuchin friars: Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap.; Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.; Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.; Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap.; Fr. Eltin Daly OFM Cap. The file also includes a manuscript copy of an ‘Approved Prayer for the Conversion of Africa’ and a typescript copy of a ‘Spiritual portrait of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.’ by Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap. (Livingstone, 1992). 19 pp.