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Letter from George Noble Plunkett, 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., asking him to attend ‘an Assembly to make Ireland’s claim for liberty before the Peace Conference’.

A letter from Georgie Yeats (1892-1968) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter encloses a set of accounts and refers to Fr. Senan’s desire to obtain prints of the painting ‘A Fair Day’ by Jack B. Yeats (Georgie’s brother-in-law).

A letter from Gerald Boland (1885-1973), Minister of Justice, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Boland refers to an offer to publish his opinion on the 'treatment of habitual drunkards'.

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.

Letter from Gertrude Parry, Shelbourne Hotel, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., affirming that she has heard of his offer ‘from my friends the Gavan Duffys and Miss Eva Gore Booth’. She adds ‘You will not know my name but I am a cousin of Roger Casement and there are several matters I should like to talk to you about’.

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 Hanna Sheehy Skeffington to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., expressing her concern on hearing of his serious illness. She affirms that Fr. Albert’s name ‘is treasured by all who know you and who love Ireland and all dear dead who died for her. The widows and sisters of the men of 1916 whom you attended and consoled and of the later martyrs also will always remember you with affection’.

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.