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An original total abstinence pledge card of Master Patrick O’Connor dated 1 Aug. 1844. The card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, President of the Cork Total Abstinence Society.

An original total abstinence pledge card of Catherine Fitzgerald dated 20 Apr. 1847. The card is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

An original total abstinence pledge card of Denis Crowley dated 20 Mar. 1848. The certificate is signed by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC.

Replies to the Ceremony of Visitation by members of the Third Order of St. Francis, Kilkenny. It is noted that the replies to the set questions ‘have the one purpose of enabling the Visitator to judge how the Rule [of St. Francis] is being observed …’. The replies to the twelve questions are answered anonymously. The individual sheets have been bound together with a chord.

Letter from the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the renewal of diocesan faculties for the Capuchin fathers in Kilkenny. Reference is also made to public mass times at the Church of St. Francis.

A silver pyx (diameter: 4.8 cm) with the Christogram IHS engraved on cover. The initials ‘TM’ are engraved on case. With silver Holy Oils Stock. The stock has three parts engraved with ‘I, B, C’.

Letter from Rev. John Doody, President, St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, to Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC (d. 25 Mar. 1918) regarding the employment of a Mr. McNamara to give lessons to a Capuchin novice.