Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for the advance copy of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She also refers to the plight of republican prisoners on hunger strike in the Curragh camp in County Kildare. She writes ‘Though you may think the policy of these men unwise, no one can question their sincerity and courage’.
Letter from Kees van Hoek to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. enclosing a cartoon taken from a German refugee newspaper in London titled ‘Die Zeitung’ parodying Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini as ‘Spanish monks’. He also refers to the availability of reprints of the partition articles published in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943).
A clipping of a review of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943) published in ‘New Zealand Tablet’ (10 November 1943). The article refers to the wartime prohibition on sending printed material to Ireland from New Zealand.
Letter from ‘Richard Rowley’ (Richard Valentine Williams) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., offering his opinion on ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1943). Rowley claims he is neither ‘a politician or a partisan’. He adds ‘It seems to me that one solution has never been attempted, and that is the power of love. No nation can be built up on mutual hate and suspicion between different parties and creeds’.
A letter from Archbishop Bernard Mary Williams, Stroud, Gloucestershire, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. conveying his impressions of the ‘Orange Terror’ offprint published by the ‘The Capuchin Annual’ office. Williams writes ‘I do not think the book will interest many people here simply because ordinary people are just not interested in the subject with which it deals’.
A letter from George Gavan Duffy to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. congratulating him on the ‘splendid’ edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. He also refers to the ‘interesting’ Jules Verne story.
A clipping of a review article on the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint from ‘The Capuchin Annual’. The review was published in the ‘Irish Ecclesiastical Review’ (November 1943).