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A letter from Germaine Stockley to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. giving particulars of the life of the late sculptor Joseph Higgins. She wrote ‘the great Irish sculptor died in Youghal in [the] beginning of 1925. I saw him a few days before his death. He died of consumption’. She also refers to Higgins’s son-in-law Seamus Murphy.

A letter from Germaine Stockley to Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. offering a subscription for the F.J. McCormick (1890-1947) fund organised by the Capuchin friars.

A letter from Grace Henry to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and expressing her admiration for the colour reproductions of her art in the latest edition.

Letter from Heinrich Bewerunge, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, to Fr. Richard Henebry. Bewerunge refers to the 'acoustic and emotional' intonations in Irish music.

A letter from Helena Concannon (1878-1952), Salthill, County Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Concannon thanks Fr. Senan for the payment for her article on Lady Georgiana Fullerton.

Letter from Henry Houghton Hill to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1941) which describes as ‘most interesting to Cork men’.

A letter from Hugh A. MacCartan, 4 Gifford Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). MacCartan describes it ‘as the most telling piece of propaganda ever done in connection with the North East’ which will administer ‘a much-needed shock to southern complacency and gives our people in the North a much-need stimulus’.

A letter from Hugh A. MacCartan, 4 Gifford Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin, to Fr. Henry Rope. MacCartan refers to the contemporary political situation in Ireland and to the Sinn Féin movement.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957) to the secretary of the Capuchin Publications Office seeking the return of three block reproductions from his sketchbook which were published in 'The Capuchin Annual'.

Letter from Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., thanking them for their generous gift (seemingly a pen). Yeats writes 'I hope it will take the bit in its teeth and write handsome and beautiful thoughts for me – what a wonderful thing would be a pen which could only write the truth'.