Letter from William Woodlock, Vickery’s Hotel, Bantry, County Cork. The letter provides detail of his trip to Counties Cork and Kerry. In relation to Bantry, Woodlock wrote ‘Nearly all the names over the shops are English: in fact, it is hard to think one is in Ireland at all, with Kingstons, and Coopers, and Taylors, and Murrays, and Robinsons. The Papists are making a footing, for I saw the name of Moriarty over one of the best shops in the place’.
A letter from Winfred M. Letts (1882-1972) to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to her hopes for having an article published in 'The Capuchin Annual'. She also refers to her remembrances of Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Benedict Phelan OFM Cap.
Letter from W.P. Fitzgerald, Mitchelstown, County Cork, to Fr. Mel Farrell OFM Cap., guardian, regarding adjustments to the figures supplied by an agent relating to insurance policies taken out by the Cork Capuchins.
Letter from W.T. Cosgrave, Reading Internment Camp, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., conveying his sympathy on hearing of the death of Fr. Aloysius’s brother. Cosgrave concludes by declaring his ‘kindest remembrance to all your Fathers – particularly Fathers Augustine and Albert and of course yourself’.
Letter from W.T. Cosgrave, Reading Internment Camp, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap., providing news of various prisoners including Joe MacDonough and P.T. Daly. Cosgrave also affirmed that ‘the last few weeks’ newspapers here also occupied a lot of our attention and this morning’s news amply rewards any little disadvantages we may have had’.
Letter signed by Fr. Thomas Dowling OSFC, guardian, consenting to the ‘erection of one bracket to the chimney of our [Friary] building between Charlotte Quay and South Mall’.
Letter of contract by John Delany to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC, guardian, undertaking to complete works as specified by Robert Walker (c.1835-1910), architect, in respect of the construction of the new confraternity room and vestry at Holy Trinity Friary, for the sum of £743.
An original letter of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., to Br. Colman Cregan OFM Cap. referring to his treatment in St. Francis Hospital in Santa Barbara, California. He also thanks the ‘good people of Santa Yenz parish’ for sending him their good wishes. (Volume page 90).
Letter of Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap., Via Boncompagni, 71, Rome, to Fr. Paul Neary OFM Cap., informing him that he has located a letter from the late Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap, in the archives of the General Capuchin Curia. Fr. Hilary writes: ‘I am informed that it is not usual nor advisable to allow such documents into any hands outside the Curia, so I fear it will not be possible to allow it to be used by any historian of the sad period about which it centres – at least for the present’. With cover.
An open letter signed by the Executive Council of the Second Dáil, transferring their authority as the Government of the Irish Republic to the Irish Republican Army Council. The document has the text in both English and Irish and is signed by Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, George Noble Plunkett, William Stockley, Mary MacSwiney, Tom Maguire, Cathal Ó Murchadha, and Brian Ó hUiginn.
