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Letter from Fr. Laurence O’Dea OSFC to Fr. Angelus Healy OSFC regarding a story told to him by the Most Rev. Thomas Francis Hendricken (1827-1886), Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island, during a visit to Kilkenny in c.1873. The story concerns a false accusation made against a priest by a young woman in the early 1830s. Fr. O’Dea also referred to his temperance ministry in India where the 2nd Battalion of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment were quartered. With a typescript note by Fr. Angelus.

Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Bend, Oregon, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., describing the last hours of his nephew Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.. He wrote: ‘Poor Dominic died rather unexpectedly. He had being ailing for a good many months, complained of a headache and more recently of dizzy spells and loss of memory’. The letter is incomplete.

Letter from Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny, to Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, regarding the conditions of a lease of property adjoining the Friary offered at an annual rent of £20.

Letter from Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap., guardian, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, enclosing a schedule of religious exercises to be held in Holy Trinity Church to mark Marian Year.

Letter from Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. (1914-1997), the presbytery, Gurranabraher, Cork, to Fr. Padraig Ó Cuill OFM Cap. enclosing newspaper cuttings of his articles published in the 'Evening Echo' from 18-21 Aug. 1982.

Letter from Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap., President, Father Mathew Hall, Cork, to Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap., enclosing a notice from the Cork Corporation Fire Department regarding the use of the Hall for bingo.