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Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St. Francis Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., Church Street, Dublin, referring to his declining condition. He wrote ‘I’m so weak and in such a serious condition that I know not if I shall be alive to-morrow’. He declared that he has renewed his profession ‘surrounded by the Franciscan Sisters here and Fr. Dillon, a devoted Kerry friend’. Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. died two days later on 14 Feb. 1925. With cover.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St. Francis Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, to Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap., stating that he is ‘perfectly resigned to God’s will and wonderfully happy family’. An annotation on the top of page reads: Fr. Albert’s last letter to me. It was posted after his death. Fr. Paul’

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., St. Benedict’s Rectory, 320 West 53D Street, New York, to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church St., Dublin, referring to his arrival in New York and his meeting with Fr. Solanus Casey OFM Cap. He also refers to a letter or photograph of letter ‘written by P.H. P[earse] to Joe Pl[unkett], 1916, and which I gave you to keep. I promised a copy of it to Mrs Tom Clarke … I would be grateful if can would, at your convenience, make a copy of it and send it to her or to Miss Daly, Bakery, Sarsfield St., Limerick for her’.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., referring to his difficult journey from Ireland to England and to his on-going ill-health. With cover, postmarked at Ilford.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., referring to his difficult conditions in California. He wrote ‘The heat and I suppose change of food and water have told on me this month. I haven’t been well at all and have spent some days in bed’. Some mention is made of the political situation in Ireland: ‘Wasn’t D[e Valera]’s address after release wonderful? No word of bitterness from start to finish’. Reference is also made to Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. and the opening of a house of studies in California. With cover.

Letter from Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap., Kapuzinerkloster (Capuchin friary), Appenzell, Switzerland, to Br. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The lengthy letter refers to his recollections of Tadhg Ó Murchadha (‘Seandún’) which Br. Senan would like to publish in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. Augustine also refers to his presidency of the Cork branch of the Gaelic League and to his first meeting with ‘Seandún’ in the Capuchin Friary in Cork. Fr. Augustine wrote ‘That night I saw his heart was in flame with love of Irish …’.

Letter from Fr. Basil Cryan OFM Cap. (1898-1968), Capuchin Foreign Missions, Church Street, Dublin, to Fr. Kieran O’Callaghan OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, re arrangements for the payment of monies into the mission account.

Letter from Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. to the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, regarding the granting of faculties to act as extraordinary confessor to the Sisters of St. John of God.